I appreciate you for this very informative video! I’m switching my pup over to senior food from adult and wanted to be able to confirm it has the correct ingredients rather than trusting any claims on the label. I feel so much better going to the store to find what’s best for him and along with fitting the budget. Thank you! 🙂
@@brad349miller sorry! Never saw this comment! lol! I grew up in New Jersey, left at 18, lived in N Carolina then out west the rest of my life. I guess my accent is just my own.
well, with all due respect, most of this info misses the point and is really just following the pet food marketing. I was a vet rep for 34 years, training vets on nutrition and therapeutic diets. Looking at ingredient panels is worthless. The panel goes by weight, not volume. So companies make sure the heaviest ingredients are the most attractive, like real meat, mostly water weight! The ingredient panel also does not give you a clue to the quality of that ingredient. AAFCO makes sure the definitions are so vague you can't tell! The only way to tell quality is looking at calcium and phosphorus! that's the bone, hair, hoof, feathers, dirt etc in the meat or meat meal! And that's the stuff that will harm your older dogs heart and kidneys now! You love the glamourous ingredients while your feeding an imbalanced diet with dangerous excessive levels! the industry is not interested in giving your pet optimal nutrients because no one looks at nutrients, just attractive ingredients! How ironic that the scam pet food companies turned the desire for better ingredients into a way of ignoring nutrients and sell expensive pet food! controlling protein (amino acids for the older kidneys) while reducing the workload on those kidneys, and reducing the excessive minerals which are very harmful to kidneys, that's what a good senior diet should do! and AAFCO is so lame they don't even have nutritional guidelines for senior life stage, the most critical! very frustrating! That's why I started my own channel!
I appreciate you for this very informative video! I’m switching my pup over to senior food from adult and wanted to be able to confirm it has the correct ingredients rather than trusting any claims on the label. I feel so much better going to the store to find what’s best for him and along with fitting the budget. Thank you! 🙂
I'm American but I don't recognize your accent. It's cool. Oklahoma? Kansas? Dakotas?
@@brad349miller sorry! Never saw this comment! lol! I grew up in New Jersey, left at 18, lived in N Carolina then out west the rest of my life. I guess my accent is just my own.
well, with all due respect, most of this info misses the point and is really just following the pet food marketing. I was a vet rep for 34 years, training vets on nutrition and therapeutic diets. Looking at ingredient panels is worthless. The panel goes by weight, not volume. So companies make sure the heaviest ingredients are the most attractive, like real meat, mostly water weight! The ingredient panel also does not give you a clue to the quality of that ingredient. AAFCO makes sure the definitions are so vague you can't tell! The only way to tell quality is looking at calcium and phosphorus! that's the bone, hair, hoof, feathers, dirt etc in the meat or meat meal! And that's the stuff that will harm your older dogs heart and kidneys now! You love the glamourous ingredients while your feeding an imbalanced diet with dangerous excessive levels! the industry is not interested in giving your pet optimal nutrients because no one looks at nutrients, just attractive ingredients! How ironic that the scam pet food companies turned the desire for better ingredients into a way of ignoring nutrients and sell expensive pet food! controlling protein (amino acids for the older kidneys) while reducing the workload on those kidneys, and reducing the excessive minerals which are very harmful to kidneys, that's what a good senior diet should do! and AAFCO is so lame they don't even have nutritional guidelines for senior life stage, the most critical! very frustrating! That's why I started my own channel!
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