I celebrated completion of Vets' School recently by getting a puppy. A Siberian Husky. As she has been eating less than I would prefer, I have been paying close attention to her food intake and weight changes. They leave a lot to be desired, so I looked at the ingredientes of her dog food.
As a Brit living in Brazil and who learned the Portuguese language by ear, the phrase "if you want something doing, do it yourself" sometimes comes to mind. I am about to take my pup to the vet, which is a sound move because I am on the cusp of qualifying but by Brazilian rules it is a matter of days before I can practice. Nevertheless, I can research my own dog's problems.
Reading the ingredients of the dog food produced some interesting surprises. Here are the ingredients, translated from Portuguese. There are three categories of dog food available in Brazil, these being adequate, more than adequate and substandard. The following ingredients come from a quality feed. Ground chicken viscerae; whole gound maize; maize gluten; hydrolysed pig liver; chicken fat; dehydrated whole eggs. spray dried concentrated pig liver; sodium chloride (common salt); potassium chloride; citric acid; antioxidant (BHA and BHT); propironic acid (a volatile fatty acid which is a nutrient, and/or mould inhibitor); vitamin/mineral premix; choline chloride which is importante in metabolismo; sodium hexametaphosphate; mananoligosaccharides; probiotics (Bacillus subtilis); chondroitin sulfate; glucosamine sulfate; enzymatic additive; sepiolita; zeolyte; yucca extract.
It raises interesting questions that I shall come to.
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