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Many people are not comfortable with a raw diet and we understand completely. So, we have compiled a list of commercial dog foods that we feel we can recommend with a good conscience. If you cannot feed a biologically appropriate diet, please consider one of the commercial foods listed below.

We do not have experience with these products and only recommend them by listening to experienced dog lovers online that use them.

All of these companies use human grade foods to produce a high quality product. Yes, they are more expensive than the national brands you see at the local grocery store. It seems that, in the case of dog food, you get what you pay for! To understand this, see "What have we done?" in the sidebar to find out what is in some cheaper dog foods. It may make you cry.

We previously mentioned the firm below with a caution. Since our first listing, we still receive a few e-mails with disturbing reports. We are leaving the old information up so visitors can see the company was listed but people continue to express serious concerns.

The following dog food is considered by many as good. Many people on the e-lists that we follow use this product for traveling with their raw fed dogs, and when they need to leave the dog(s) with a sitter. However, according to the New Mexico Better Business Bureau (www.bbbnm.com) there have been several consumer complaints. Most disturbing is that all complaints have been consistantly ignored.

Balance Diet™ (link removed)

Ingredients: chicken meat, beef, grade AA eggs, chicken liver, hydrolyzed bone marrow, salmon, carrot, apple, orange, grapefruit, garlic, avocado, tomato, spirulina, turnip greens, blueberry and apple cider vinegar. Preserved and naturally purified by fermentation and curing.

Sounds almost like the ingredients we use for Roxy and Shando's raw diet. In our opinion, Balance Diet™ could be the next best thing to a raw diet, just check their latest listing of consumer complaints with The Better Business Bureau.

Products are listed alphabetically.

Check out their websites to find where to purchase their products.

The following quote is taken from the Animal Protection Institute web site:

"Meat and poultry meals, byproduct meals, and meat-and-bone meal are common ingredients in pet foods. The term "meal" means that these materials are not used fresh, but have been rendered. What is rendering? Rendering, as defined by Webster's Dictionary, is "to process as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses and to extract oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting."

Here's a listing and comparison for almost every dog food kibble available!

All commercial dog foods are lacking in Vitamin C. It may be to your dog/pups advantage to supplement this vital nutrient. Please read the entire article, listed in the sidebar, "Vitamin C and Hip Dysplasia". You may be surprised!

Vitamin C - A water-soluble vitamin that is necessary for normal growth and development.

Only some commercial dog foods are lacking in Vitamin C. It may be to your dog/pups advantage to supplement this vital nutrient. Please read the entire article, listed in the sidebar, "Vitamin C and Hip Dysplasia". You may be surprised!

A dog can produce it's own Vitamin C, but when stresses are high and nutrition is not optimal, the production can cease or become extremely low. Studies show that extra Vitamin C belongs in every dog's diet!

& Plenty of Vitamin C information can be found in "How to Have A Healthier Dog" by Wendell Belfield & Martin Zucker

& If you are up to it, here's a book that does not make the pet food industry look good. We are not trying to be crude, suggesting this book on our kibble page. We just want what is best for your dogs! This book does not advocate the BARF style diet, but is a good eye opener for everyone. "Food Pets Die For, Shocking Facts about Pet Food" by Ann Martin.