New Zealand Dog News

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October 23, 2008

The best food for man's best friend

Healthy food is no longer just for humans. Sally Kidson talks with two businesses in the Nelson region making 100 per cent natural dog foods.
I guess this post is just really advertising.. so i won't put up the picture :)

The biscuits are of a standard humans could snack on, although he concedes that this is not the target market. "It might work in Europe or North America, where they are into weird things like that," he jokes.

He says people have become increasingly conscious of what their pets eat. A quick Internet search reveals what goes into some of the major commercially-produced pet foods, and owners might be shocked.

Melamine, the chemical at the centre of the recent milk powder scandal in China, has already caused a scandal in the pet food world, after thousands of pets in the United States died from melamine poisoning linked to an ingredient used in many of that country's major pet food lines. The use of meat byproducts could mean all sorts of nasty ground-up animal products ending up in the family dog's or cat's dinner bowl.

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