TGPC SELECTS DOG FOODS
The founder Of The Green Pet Community, Ellen Myers has selected the dog foods listed on this site. Knowing there are literally hundreds of dog foods on the market, enough to make many a pet owner fret and wonder what he should do, she decided, based on the standards she has set at the site, to go though the dog foods and select those she feels will narrow your search, and keep you to some valuable choices.
There are many options even in deciding the kind of diet you want your dog to be on: dry dog food: canned dog foods, a mixture of dry and wet dog foods, or perhaps you may think it best to cook meals for the dog along with the meals prepared for the rest of the family. It is a wonderful time really, Ellen has pointed out, as information pushes food companies to make better foods as awareness grows in the population at large about correct dog nutrition. There are natural and organic dog foods on the market, grain free dog foods, and raw dog food diets. Today raw prepared meals are available as frozen foods, designed to meet the balanced needs of the dog, letting you pull what is needed daily from the freezer to be thawed out and given to your pet.
New dog foods come on the market each day. Therefore, the list of foods found at the site is subject to change. At the same time, many of the smaller successful and widely supported dog foods, may get bought by big corporations who then change the content of that food while maintaining the brand name, sometimes lowering the quality of the food. So over time, some brands may be dropped from the list if this is noted. Older brands where some great changes are made may be added.
The Internet, in preparing for the numbers of people shopping via this medium, has business venues where foods not found in your hometown are available and can be shipped to your doorstep.
Ellen, who has been involved at a high level in the dog fancy world, is making sure her site is not simply business as usual like so many other sites. If you want to see everything the dog food world has to offer, this is not the site to use. She has been in a sense your personal shopper. It is to help you shop more quickly and choose with confidence. Do not feel badly if you are using foods not on this list. She had a ceiling as to how many foods would be listed at a given time.
Dogs, like all other living things, will have differences from one another. Some will fare better on one food, while other dogs do better on another. Certain dogs need the help of their vet to establish what might be best for them. Some dogs have allergies, or other ailments.
There are well-known brand companies who make foods specifically for dogs with such issues.
Some books on the subject of dog foods and dog diets are included here:
 FOOD PETS DIE FOR, by Ann Martin |
GROW YOUR PUP WITH BONES, by Dr. Ian Billinghurs |
DR PITCAIRN’S NEW COMPLETE GUIDE TO NATURAL HEALTH |
THE HEALTHY DOG COOKBOOK, by Jonna Anne |
DR. BECKER’S REAL FOOD FOR HEALTH, by Beth Taylor and Daren Shaw Becker DVM |
THE HOLISTIC DOG BOOK; CANINE CARE FOR THE 21st Century, by Denise Flaim, with forward by Dr. Michael W. Fox |
| PET FOOD POLITICS; THE CHIHUAHUA IN THE COAL MINE, by Marion Nestle | CANINE NUTRITION: WHAT EVERY OWNER, BREEDER, AND TRAINER SHOULD KNOW, by Lowell J. Ackerman
| FEEDING CHAMPIONS, THE STORY OF BIL-JAC, THE LIFE AND PASSION OF BILL KELLY, by Holly Strawbridg |
Links to Great Dog Foods
