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This is a rating scale to determine if your dog food is excellent, good, acceptable, not acceptable or hazardous for your pet.
Although it is a general “scale” based on someone’s opinion, it does make a great deal of sense. At the end of the rating scale there are some good examples of what commercial dog foods you should never ever give your pet.
Use the scale as a general learning tool and evaluate your dog’s food and see where it falls.
This scale is posted on many websites, so I can’t acknowledge the orignal author, so if anyone knows who did start this let me know so I can use their name here.
Give it a try – it is fun and enlightening.
DOG FOOD RATINGS SCALE AND CRITERIA
Start with a grade of 100
- - For every listing of “by-product”, subtract 10 points.
- - For every non-specific animal source (“meat or “poultry”, meat meal or fat) reference, subtract 10 points.
- - If the food contains BHA, BHT or ethoxyquin, subtract 10 points. (these are known cancer causing agents.)
- - For every grain “mill run” or non-specific grain source subtract 5 points.
- - If the same grain ingredient is used two or more times in the first five ingredients (i.e. “ground brown rice”, brewer’s rice”, “rice flour”, are all the same grain), subtract 5 points.
- - If the protein sources are not meat meal and there are less than two meats in the top three ingredients, subtract 3 points.
- - If it contains any artificial colorants, subtract 3 points.
- - If it contains ground corn or whole grain corn, subtract 3 points.
- - If corn is listed in the top five ingredients, subtract 2 more points.
- - If the food contains any animal fat other than fish oil, subtract 2 points.
- - If lamb is the only animal protein source (unless your dog is allergic to other protein sources), subtract 2 points.
- - If it contains soy or soybeans, subtract 2 points.
- - If it contains wheat (unless you know that your dog isn’t allergic to wheat), subtract 2 points.
- - If it contains beef (unless you know that your dog isn’t allergice to beef), subtract 1 point.
SEE A MORE COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF DOG FOOD INGREDIENTS TO AVOID, AND WHY, HERE.
EXTRA CREDIT
- - If any of the meat sources are organic, add 5 points.
- - If the food is endorsed by any major breed group or nutritionist, add 5 points.
- - If the food is baked not extruded, add 5 points.
- - If the food contains probiotics, add 3 points.
- - If the food contains fruit, add 3 points.
- - If the food contains vegetables (NOT corn or other grains) add 3 points.
- - If the animal sources are hormone-free and antibiotic-free, add 2 points.
- - If the food contains barley, add 2 points.
- - If the food contains flax seed oil (not just the seeds), add 2 point.
- - If the food contains oats or oatmeal, add 1 point.
- - If the food contains sunflower oil, add 1 point.
- - For every different specific animal protein source (other than the first one, count “chicken and chicken meal” as one protein source, but “chicken” and “venison” as 2 different sources) add 1 point.
- - If it contains glucosamine and chondroitin, add 1 point.
- - If the vegetable have been tested for pesticides and are pesticide-free, add 1 point.
- SEE A COMPLETE LIST OF THE BEST DOG FOOD INGREDIENTS HERE.
SCORES:
- OVER 100 = A+ SUPERB!
- 94 – 100 = A BEST!
- 86 – 93 = B STILL GOOD
- 78 – 85 = C AVERAGE FOOD, COULD BE IMPROVED
- 70 – 77 = D YOU SHOULD CONSIDER CHANGING.
- 69 = F AWFUL! POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS! CHANGE IMMEDIATELY.
Here are some examples of foods rated on this scale: The good, the bad and the ugly.
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This is only a small list for comparison purposes only. Sadly there are still many low quality, unhealthy and dangerous dog foods full of chemicals available.
These companies can advertise their cheap foods as 100% nutrtionally complete as they only need to meet minimal standards of nutrtion, not optimum.
WHICH DOG FOOD WOULD YOUR RATHER FEED YOUR PET? A SIDE BY SIDE INGREDIENT COMPARISON BETWEEN A BAD AND GOOD DOG FOOD.
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PEDIGREE WITH LAMB AND RICE Ground Whole Corn, Chicken By-Product Meal, Ground Wheat, Meat And Bone Meal, Animal Fat (Preserved With Bha/Bht), Wheat Flour, Lamb, Rice, Corn Gluten Meal, Natural Flavor, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Vegetable Oil (Source Of Linoleic Acid), Caramel Color, Dried Beet Pulp, Titanium Dioxide, Vitamins (Choline Chloride, Dl-Alpha Tocopherol Acetate [Source Of Vitamin E], L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate [Source Of Vitamin C*], Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Biotin, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement [Vitamin B2], Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement), Minerals (Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Potassium Iodide), Added FD&C And Lake Colors (Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Blue 2, Red 40) Check out the first 5 ingredients –
So the first 5 ingredients are on the “what to avoid feeding your dog list” due to the harmful, dangerous unhealthy reasons given here. This us just thrown together like a smorgasboard of junk – Yuckkkkk!
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WELLNESS (Core Grain – Free) Deboned Turkey, Deboned Chicken, Turkey Meal, Chicken Meal, Potatoes, Dried Ground Potato, Tomato Pomace, Natural Chicken Flavor, Canola Oil, Chicken Liver, Salmon Oil, Flaxseed, Carrots, Sweet Potatoes, Kale, Broccoli, Spinach, Parsley, Apples, Blueberries, Vitamins & Minerals, Chicory Root Extract, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Chondroitin Sulfate, Dried Lactobacillus plantarum, Enterococcus faecium, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Products, Rosemary Extract. Compare the first 5 ingredients:
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