Alpo Dog Food

What makes you buy Alpo dog food?

By saving a pocket change on a cheaper dog food every month, you are exponentially increasing the chance that a few years down the road you will be faced with the choice of spending thousands in veterinary bills or euthanizing your dog. Want to avoid that choice? Inform yourself about dog foods! Dogs were designed to eat meat, gnaw on bones, and occasionally eat grass. What’s in Alpo dog food?

Top 3 ingredients:
ground yellow corn, soybean meal, and poultry byproduct meal

#1. Corn: The largest ingredient in Alpo Dog Food is a high energy, largely indigestible grain. A corn-based food makes a dog hyper and, because their body can’t digest the corn completely, makes their poop up to 60% larger. Believe it or not, you end up picking the top ingredient in Alpo dog foods up out of your yard.

#2. Soybean Meal: the lowest quality protein available to dog food manufacturers. Some veterinarians allege that soybeans are the #1 allergy of dogs- this can manifest itself in itching, gas, vomiting, skin irritations, and worse.

#3. Poultry Byproduct Meal: In other words, poultry unfit for human consumption. Either the remains (heads, feet, feathers) or ground carcasses of chicken killed by disease.

No wonder pets fed Alpo Dog Food are likely to develop health problems. But here’s the good news:

By switching to a higher quality food you can save on veterinary bills and decrease the amount of waste in your yard. Dogs on higher quality diets live longer, healthier lives. To learn more about healthier alternatives to Alpo dogs foods google the phrase “what's in dog food” (not in quotes) or visit our links.