Do you really know what's going into your dog stomach?? Part III
In previous entry titled "Do you really know what's going into your dog stomach?? Part I", I wrote about why I have changed Palette's diet. Then in the entry titled "Do you really know what's going into your dog stomach?? Part II", I wrote about it is important for you to know what are in the treats you give to your dogs not just dog food ingredients.
Here, I like to write about it is also important for you to know where the treats are made, and if no full ingredients list were shown or no information as to where the treat was made, you should ask the store what are in it, where it is made before you purchase them. Sometimes, I find even big name online pet supply stores website lack in showing such an important information for their customers.
One online pet supply store had this all natural Jerky treats with 100% duck meat. Ingredient was just duck meat. Description says, it is slow roasted to lock in the flavor. Sounds great! The website did not have where it was made and turned out it was "made in China".
One day, I came across website where you can buy bully sticks in bulk. The website had information on length of the treats,shape of the treats,wrote it is all natural treats etc but did not say where they were made. I asked them where the bully sticks are made. Turned out, it is from China or south America. Which means, you do not know whether you will get one from China or from south America.
Another online pet store had stuffed treats. The website had information on what it is mainly made out of , and that it said it is all natural treats, but no information on where it was made, what are the ingredients of the stuffing to stuff the particular treats with. The product was stuffed treats, but website did not say as to what it was filled with, in written form. They had video on the page and if you had watched it, you could get information on what is stuffed with. I wish they had information in written form as well. I actually got it before because I knew that the tube made out of was great natural source for glucosamine/chondroitine although brown rice and bully stick bits mixed to paste part was not something appealing to my mind. I just got one for curiosity. Result? Palette had watery diarrhea. Maybe reacted to paste? Or, paste maybe preserved with something and that got her digestive system upset?
Same store had rabbit Jerky with information this treat is good for allergy dog but no information as to where it was made, or no ingredients were shown on the website. I asked them, and answer? It was " made in China". It looks like some products had full ingredients list, some had none, the other product had half ingredients list shown by saying " This treats has ingredients a, b, c, and other good stuff for your dog". I have to wonder what IS the "other good stuff"?
Another pet supply store had this all natural Jerky treat with 100% rabbit meat. None of the particular product description was shown except title of the products and weight of the products. This store had such a large selection of treats to choose from, but all you see was front picture of the treats with weight of the treats information along side the product name. I inquired what are in it, where it was made. Turned out,it was "made in China" again. Answer to ingredients? I was just told it was made with pure rabbit meat. The answer, to me, was not good enough. Considering some of the products have more than meat in Jerky: brown rice, rye flour, chicory root syrup,salt,garlic etc are popular ingredients for so- called all natural dog Jerky, and some of the Jerky treats are fortified with vitamins etc. Jerky treats that has more than meat tends to be priced lower with good net weight amount because they use less meat and cost to make the Jerky goes down.
Our Surf Turf Jerky is, made fresh for you with simple 2 ingredients: fully grass-fed buffalo meat with wild caught salmon and we add nothing to it. Fully grass-fed buffalo meat we use for our Jerky is sold for human. I have eaten their meat before on our wedding anniversary. Very tender, juicy, and flavorful. Very good. Palette eat their buffalo meat as raw diet meal too and she enjoys them very much. I am sure if we use less meat to make the Jerky, by adding fillers such as rye flour like other makers do, we could price it down. However, if we offer something, I like to offer healthier, better ingredients products to furry friends. At our store, you can read ingredients for all products, and information on where treats are made, and you would not find treats made with fillers or fortified with vitamins.
I think some pet supply stores focusing too much on telling customer treats are all natural, their treats are good for chew, good for teeth cleaning, good for long lasting etc and sometimes, they tend to miss the important piece of basic information: ingredients and where it is made. For me, ingredients and where the treats are made are the information I look up first, and most important information of all.
When you give something to your furry friends, take a time and make sure you know what you are giving to them, and where they were made. If you found no information on them on other online stores, ask them before you purchase them.
All of products offered on our website has no mixed tocopherols (vitamin E) either. Reason behind it is that, Palette develops chewing paws, scratch body a lot, and she got bumps when I tried giving her sample treats we got it from supplier which was preserved with it. She maybe extra sensitive to synthetic vitamins. Or maybe soy because natural vitamin E is mostly delivered from soybean oil. If your dogs got itchy with treats that had 100% meat along with mixed tocopherols in ingredients list, and nothing else is changed in their diet, try stay away from those treats preserved with mixed tocopherols and see if it helps. For Palette, once she got no treats preserved with mixed tocopherols, no itchy,and no bumps.
Recently, one of suppliers sent me peanut butter biscuits. It was interesting. Why? Because what are in it. List read as following.
whole wheat flour, ground whole oats, peanut butter, amaranth, sunflower hearts, apples, carrots, flax seed, kelp, beta- carotene, green tea extract, L-carnitine, mixed tocopherols.
Of course, peanut butter smell made Palette nose wet. I was not sure what L-carnitine was but sounds like natural amino acid. I was not sure what the sunflower heart is. When I google it, and it seems it is hulled sunflower seeds. The treat is not something I would give to Palette but Palette snatched it when I was staring at the small piece of treats while reading what are in it. Result? She loved it but, digestive upset and bit of paw chewing. Next time, I should be sitting on chair, not on the floor. Lesson learned.
Treat is very small part of diet. There is Japanese Saying " Every little makes a mickle". You would think tiny bit of sugar, salt in the treats are ok but if you keep giving it a little by little, your dog is getting quite a bit of salt, sugar or maybe other fillers after many days of " tiny bits". I prefer to give treats with simple ingredients without fillers or with sugar/salt. And, if I give something to Palette, I like to give something good for her without fillers. Since she has history of limping episode, I like to give something that has natural source of glucosamine/chondroitine as occasional snack.
Some people have asked me how often you can give bully sticks. I think it depends on your preference. Depends on what for, the bully sticks are given for for your dogs.
For Palette, it is a jack pot treats along with trachea treats and, I usually give her small bully sticks like 3" one or trachea for rare snack after bathing time or rare jack pot treat for find it game (it is when she needed to find her hidden toy. She exchange the toy with small bully sticks or other treats such as trachea). Occasionally, long bully sticks or trachea as snack when I feed big meal once a month. She probably get one regular bully stick per month, and if she were lucky, 2 small bully sticks or so per month. She gets training treats more frequently.
Take your time to choose the treats for your dog and know where the treats are made and what are in it, and let your dogs enjoy every bite of it with benefit from good ingredients to make the treats....
Remember what dogs show interests or what they like does not necessary means good for them. They cannot read letters but you can. You need to choose better treats for your furry friends.
To visit our store,please click here or paste and copy the link bellow into your browser.
http://yassysgdk.com/main.sc
Here, I like to write about it is also important for you to know where the treats are made, and if no full ingredients list were shown or no information as to where the treat was made, you should ask the store what are in it, where it is made before you purchase them. Sometimes, I find even big name online pet supply stores website lack in showing such an important information for their customers.
One online pet supply store had this all natural Jerky treats with 100% duck meat. Ingredient was just duck meat. Description says, it is slow roasted to lock in the flavor. Sounds great! The website did not have where it was made and turned out it was "made in China".
One day, I came across website where you can buy bully sticks in bulk. The website had information on length of the treats,shape of the treats,wrote it is all natural treats etc but did not say where they were made. I asked them where the bully sticks are made. Turned out, it is from China or south America. Which means, you do not know whether you will get one from China or from south America.
Another online pet store had stuffed treats. The website had information on what it is mainly made out of , and that it said it is all natural treats, but no information on where it was made, what are the ingredients of the stuffing to stuff the particular treats with. The product was stuffed treats, but website did not say as to what it was filled with, in written form. They had video on the page and if you had watched it, you could get information on what is stuffed with. I wish they had information in written form as well. I actually got it before because I knew that the tube made out of was great natural source for glucosamine/chondroitine although brown rice and bully stick bits mixed to paste part was not something appealing to my mind. I just got one for curiosity. Result? Palette had watery diarrhea. Maybe reacted to paste? Or, paste maybe preserved with something and that got her digestive system upset?
Same store had rabbit Jerky with information this treat is good for allergy dog but no information as to where it was made, or no ingredients were shown on the website. I asked them, and answer? It was " made in China". It looks like some products had full ingredients list, some had none, the other product had half ingredients list shown by saying " This treats has ingredients a, b, c, and other good stuff for your dog". I have to wonder what IS the "other good stuff"?
Another pet supply store had this all natural Jerky treat with 100% rabbit meat. None of the particular product description was shown except title of the products and weight of the products. This store had such a large selection of treats to choose from, but all you see was front picture of the treats with weight of the treats information along side the product name. I inquired what are in it, where it was made. Turned out,it was "made in China" again. Answer to ingredients? I was just told it was made with pure rabbit meat. The answer, to me, was not good enough. Considering some of the products have more than meat in Jerky: brown rice, rye flour, chicory root syrup,salt,garlic etc are popular ingredients for so- called all natural dog Jerky, and some of the Jerky treats are fortified with vitamins etc. Jerky treats that has more than meat tends to be priced lower with good net weight amount because they use less meat and cost to make the Jerky goes down.
Our Surf Turf Jerky is, made fresh for you with simple 2 ingredients: fully grass-fed buffalo meat with wild caught salmon and we add nothing to it. Fully grass-fed buffalo meat we use for our Jerky is sold for human. I have eaten their meat before on our wedding anniversary. Very tender, juicy, and flavorful. Very good. Palette eat their buffalo meat as raw diet meal too and she enjoys them very much. I am sure if we use less meat to make the Jerky, by adding fillers such as rye flour like other makers do, we could price it down. However, if we offer something, I like to offer healthier, better ingredients products to furry friends. At our store, you can read ingredients for all products, and information on where treats are made, and you would not find treats made with fillers or fortified with vitamins.
I think some pet supply stores focusing too much on telling customer treats are all natural, their treats are good for chew, good for teeth cleaning, good for long lasting etc and sometimes, they tend to miss the important piece of basic information: ingredients and where it is made. For me, ingredients and where the treats are made are the information I look up first, and most important information of all.
When you give something to your furry friends, take a time and make sure you know what you are giving to them, and where they were made. If you found no information on them on other online stores, ask them before you purchase them.
All of products offered on our website has no mixed tocopherols (vitamin E) either. Reason behind it is that, Palette develops chewing paws, scratch body a lot, and she got bumps when I tried giving her sample treats we got it from supplier which was preserved with it. She maybe extra sensitive to synthetic vitamins. Or maybe soy because natural vitamin E is mostly delivered from soybean oil. If your dogs got itchy with treats that had 100% meat along with mixed tocopherols in ingredients list, and nothing else is changed in their diet, try stay away from those treats preserved with mixed tocopherols and see if it helps. For Palette, once she got no treats preserved with mixed tocopherols, no itchy,and no bumps.
Recently, one of suppliers sent me peanut butter biscuits. It was interesting. Why? Because what are in it. List read as following.
whole wheat flour, ground whole oats, peanut butter, amaranth, sunflower hearts, apples, carrots, flax seed, kelp, beta- carotene, green tea extract, L-carnitine, mixed tocopherols.
Of course, peanut butter smell made Palette nose wet. I was not sure what L-carnitine was but sounds like natural amino acid. I was not sure what the sunflower heart is. When I google it, and it seems it is hulled sunflower seeds. The treat is not something I would give to Palette but Palette snatched it when I was staring at the small piece of treats while reading what are in it. Result? She loved it but, digestive upset and bit of paw chewing. Next time, I should be sitting on chair, not on the floor. Lesson learned.
Treat is very small part of diet. There is Japanese Saying " Every little makes a mickle". You would think tiny bit of sugar, salt in the treats are ok but if you keep giving it a little by little, your dog is getting quite a bit of salt, sugar or maybe other fillers after many days of " tiny bits". I prefer to give treats with simple ingredients without fillers or with sugar/salt. And, if I give something to Palette, I like to give something good for her without fillers. Since she has history of limping episode, I like to give something that has natural source of glucosamine/chondroitine as occasional snack.
Some people have asked me how often you can give bully sticks. I think it depends on your preference. Depends on what for, the bully sticks are given for for your dogs.
For Palette, it is a jack pot treats along with trachea treats and, I usually give her small bully sticks like 3" one or trachea for rare snack after bathing time or rare jack pot treat for find it game (it is when she needed to find her hidden toy. She exchange the toy with small bully sticks or other treats such as trachea). Occasionally, long bully sticks or trachea as snack when I feed big meal once a month. She probably get one regular bully stick per month, and if she were lucky, 2 small bully sticks or so per month. She gets training treats more frequently.
Take your time to choose the treats for your dog and know where the treats are made and what are in it, and let your dogs enjoy every bite of it with benefit from good ingredients to make the treats....
Remember what dogs show interests or what they like does not necessary means good for them. They cannot read letters but you can. You need to choose better treats for your furry friends.
To visit our store,please click here or paste and copy the link bellow into your browser.
http://yassysgdk.com/main.sc
Posted by yassy at 1/19/2010 8:05 AM 
Categories: Dog Diet
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Categories: Dog Diet
Tags: yassy's gourmet dog kitchen deer antlers natural chews
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