Having adopted my third "recycled" dog who is being trained, I was going through a lot more doggie treats than before. I decided to take some bread that was going stale anyway and try an experiment.
I piled up a few slices then cut them into quarters. I laid them out on a cookie sheet, lightly brushed them with healthy olive oil, and sprinkled them with garlic powder. I put them in a low oven for a bit, until they were hard and crunchy, like Melba toast. All healthy ingredients and they basically cost me nothing, I used the too stale for me bread and the dogs love them. May try flax seed next time!
By Linda from Vista, CA
Editor's Note: Most veterinarians recommend against giving your dog garlic, but there some do advocate for it. Please talk to your own vet prior to feeding dogs garlic.
Yes, but for the cost of your specialty dog food, we could rescue and feed four dogs. And that is precisely what we are doing in Indonesia.
I would just caution all of us from using too much self-righteousness in comments, posts, or even our daily lives. It's usually more about ego than trying to be helpful.
While Taste of the Wild dog-food may not have "corn and all the other stuff," here are some of things it does have: garbanzo beans, peas, lentils, pea protein, canola oil, egg product, pea flour, tomato pomace, natural flavor, ocean fish meal, salt, choline chloride, dried chicory root, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, yucca schidigera extract, dried Lactobacillus plantarum fermentation product, dried Bacillus subtilis fermentation product, dried Lactobacillus acidophilus fermentation product, dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product, dried Bifidobacterium animalis fermentation product.
There is no peer-reviewed evidence that the above are any better than the seed pods that a hungry dog chews on all over the world, and many of which are grasses (i.e., grains).
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