Before changing anything in your dog’s diet, please make sure to consult a professional veterinarian.

You may be shocked to find out what could really be in your dog's food! Stuff like peanut hulls, wood chips, road kill, garbage, dead stock, and even worse!  Pretty disgusting!

After doing countless hours of research into dog nutrition, we here at Brothers realized quickly that we needed to be the ones doing our homework in order to make good decisions about what our dogs were eating.  Since, for obvious reasons they certainly couldn't.

You are probably wondering, "Could those things really be in dog food?" Little known fact, there are actually very few regulations and even fewer organizations that monitor what goes into dog food. The pet food industry is managed by a self-regulating board called the American Association of Feed Control Officials, AAFCO, and they are the ones that define the nutritional, testing, and labeling requirements for processed dog food.  The pet food industry is governed very differently then how the government runs the Food and Drug Administration, FDA.  Pet food companies are not obligated to list all the ingredients that go into their products, and often times when they are listed, the ingredients are disguised by different names so that the regular customer will not recognize them. The few organizations that do set these standards have little enforcement and products meet the minimum standards for nutrition. Talk about buyer beware!

Dogs are usually not picky eaters, so as the decision maker for our pets, we have some choices to make regarding their daily diets.  Similarly to human nutrition, you could write a book about these topics (in fact there are several good books on pet nutrition out there) but we have decided to lightly touch on three of the most common dietary choices out there at the moment for this articles sake.  They are

• Kibble
• Home Cooked Diet
• The RAW Diet