When you see chicken listed as an ingredient, it means unprocessed chicken, complete with water. Ingredients appear in descending order of their weight that weight includes any water in the ingredient. If you’re comparing ingredient lists, should you choose the one with meat or with meat meal listed first? If your goal is to have the most meat nutrients, choose meat meal. Myth: Meat is More Nutritious Than Meat Meal Feed a moderate level of high-quality protein, and your dog will likely be just fine. Egg protein has the highest biological value, followed by milk, meats, and more.īut what about protein levels for dogs with normal kidney function? There’s very little support for the suggestion that you can preserve kidney health by not taxing them with too much protein. Researchers do agree that protein sources with high biological value produce fewer waste products and are better choices. In fact, there’s a huge debate about whether restricted protein is the way to go for dogs with kidney disease, with studies disagreeing about whether it helps kidney patients live longer. But if the protein level is too low, the body simply draws on its own protein source (muscles), causing more harm. Decreasing dietary protein can decrease the BUN. That’s why the blood urea nitrogen (BUN) is used as one index of kidney function.
Failing kidneys allow urea, a byproduct of protein metabolism, to build up in the blood, making the dog feel sick. The idea that excess protein causes kidney failure arises from the fact that high levels of protein have historically been ill-advised for dogs with the condition. Myth: High-Protein Diets Cause Kidney Failure Now, with so many people feeding lamb as a regular diet, manufacturers have had to find different meat sources, such as duck or bison. Lamb was initially used in hypoallergenic dog foods because it was a meat most pups had not eaten before therefore, they were unlikely to have developed food allergies to lamb. There is nothing inherently less allergenic in one meat compared to another. We recommend pork as a protein because it contains more calories per pound.” Myth: Lamb is Hypoallergenic It’s less likely to cause an allergic reaction that some pets may have to other proteins.
And because of the possibility of trichinosis in uncooked pork, nobody is going to suggest it as a great raw-food ingredient.Īccording to Eagle Pack staff veterinarian Al Townshend, DVM, “Pork is a highly digestible animal protein, an excellent source of amino acids, and a unique protein source that not all pets are typically exposed to. Its scarcity may simply be because so many parts of a pig are used for human consumption that snouts and feet and such don’t make it to the dog food plant. Some rumors include suggestions that pork’s high fat content will cause pancreatitis in dogs (yet pork contains a little over one-third the fat content of beef), that it contains something toxic to dogs’ livers (a mystery component), that pigs eat disgusting things including bugs (but it’s fine for people to eat them), and that pig meat is hard to come by (harder than bison?).Ī few dog food companies do offer pork-based foods. Myth: Don’t Feed Dogs Porkīut then I started to wonder why so few commercial foods contained pork. Here’s a sampling of urban legends populating the Web and the actual truths behind them. Unfortunately, it provides even more dog food myths and misinformation. The Internet can offer a wealth of tips and facts on dog food.
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