Keeping Your Furry Friend Healthy — the Same Rules Apply!

After know­ing every­thing that your pet does for you, and just know­ing how much love and joy they bring to your life, don’t you want to make sure you keep them their hap­pi­est and health­i­est best fur­ry selves?

As humans, the more min­i­mal­ly processed some­thing is, the health­i­er it is for us and the bet­ter our body knows how to use it as nour­ish­ment. The same goes for pets. In an ide­al world we would be mak­ing all of our food from scratch AND all of our pet’s food as well. This, how­ev­er, is no ide­al world! Luck­i­ly, you don’t have to work too hard to sur­prise your pet with a tasty, healthy treat. Accord­ing to Mod­ern Dog Mag­a­zine, dogs love to snack on sar­dines, which are not only full of omegas, but they can also be kept in a bag in the freez­er and fed to them whole. Talk about easy, quick, and healthy!

As far as healthy dog food goes, the same rules apply — if you don’t know what the ingre­di­ents are, nei­ther does your dog’s body! Aim to avoid these ingre­di­ents: corn and wheat gluten; meat byprod­ucts; grain byprod­ucts; meat and grain meals; BHA (Buty­lat­ed Hydrox­yanisole); BHT (Buty­lat­ed Hydrox­y­toluene); Ethoxyquin; Food Dyes (Blue 2, Red 40, Yel­low 5 and 6, 4‑MIE); PG (Propy­lene Gly­col); and ren­dered fat. None of these sounds very good for human food either, and it is a good rule of thumb to not feed your pet some­thing with ingre­di­ents you would not eat or can­not pronounce!

For a tru­ly deli­cious, healthy treat for your dog, check out this mon­th’s recipe. Alfie test­ed them to be sure they were ready for the newslet­ter… cheers to our employ­ee of the month!