27 Jun 09 Wet Dog Food vs Dry Food

When choosing your dog’s food, first you’ll have to face the choice of which type of dog food you want to purchase for your canine. What I mean by that is, you’ll have to choose from wet food, or dry food. Wet food meaning the soft food stored in cans, or other airtight containers, with water and oils. And dry food, just the standard giant bag of kibble. Both have fairly different nutritional values, and different pros as well as cons.

First off, we’ll start with wet food. Wet dog food is healthy because of the water/oil content that dry dog food doesn’t contain, as it will provide your canine with exactly what it needs to maintain a healthy beautiful coat. Wet dog food also is much closer to what your dog would be eating in the wild, containing less filler than dry dog food on average.

But wet dog food can be bad in the long run as it does not promote good dental health. Dry dog food strengthens your canine’s teeth and jaw, as well as cleans off excesses of plaque during the eating process. Wet dog food does nothing to that effect. And so your dog’s tooth health can actually decay on a diet of mainly wet dog food, unless your dog makes up that difference by chewing bones, or toys often.

Dry dog food contains all of the nutrients and vitamins your animal would need over it’s lifetime. Dry dog food also contains fewer fats and oils, which is good for your dog’s cardiovascular health. But dry dog food also contains a lot of roughage, opposed to the sort of more carnivorous meals they would be eating in the wild. Excesses of corn and wheat found in dry dog food isn’t exactly desirable for your dog’s overall fitness. Also depending upon your storage practices, dry dog food is more likely to spoil, or attract insects looking for an easy meal. But simply using a re-sealable plastic container for the food, opposed to just keeping it in the bag, should solve any problems you may have with pests.

Overall I lean more towards dry dog food, because of the health benefits in terms of dental health, as well as cardiovascular fitness. But then it all depends on which sort of dog you have.

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Danniele Brown | 10 Jul 2009 2:02 am
I agree. Dry dog foods do a lot of wonders in the system these days. Plus, they are easy to manage, unlike wet where it’s messy. Still, the problems today arise not from the wet and dry dog foods but to the companies that manufacture these things. It is always logical to choose companies that are already established and noted because a lot of companies today have been putting a lot of preservatives to dog foods making it more dangerous to our buddies.*

Danniele Brown
http://woofgangbakerylakewoodranch.com/

27 Jun 09 Wet Dog Food vs Dry Food

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