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    'Dog' Food For Thought
    'Dog' Food For Thought
    'Dog' Food For Thought
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    'Dog' Food For Thought

    By Robert Filderman

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    The Good, Bad, and Ugly of what you are feeding your pup.

    From A to Z on foods that are healthy and harmful. to your dog including testimonials from experts in the field.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Filderman
    Release dateJun 12, 2017
    ISBN9781386040279
    'Dog' Food For Thought
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    Robert Filderman

    Robert Filderman is the author of three novels: Angel in the White House, Lost in Hospital Land, and (Dog) Food For Thought. A lot has gone on in my life and so much I have learned from my past. I feel I have to put it into print. So many have so much to say, but aren't taking the time to share it with others, this is not giving the joy and hope others need. 

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      Book preview

      'Dog' Food For Thought - Robert Filderman

      (Dog) Food For Thought

      The good, bad, and ugly of what you’re feeding your pup.

      Robert Filderman

      Copywrite 2016

      All rights reserved

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to all the dogs that want their masters to be conscientious and thoughtful about the things they feed them. They would appreciate the loving care and consideration  they deserve and for their owners to not be lazy and careless about doing a little research and having a little understanding of what is beneficial and what is harmful and follow a strict rule to love them and take care of them in the best possible way as they would any other member of the family.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction - Page 1

      Chapter One - My Beginnings – Page 3

      Chapter Two – Regulations – Let’s get down to business – Page 6

      Chapter Three – Researching the good and bad – Page 9

      Chapter Four – The best and the worst – Page 11

      Chapter Five – Meat – Page 53

      Chapter Six – Let’s move on with more good, bad, and ugly – Page 76

      Chapter Seven – Raw food diets – Page 110

      Chapter Eight – Vegan Diets for Dogs – Page 117

      Chapter Nine – What’s on the label? – Page 124

      Chapter Ten – CBD’s in dog food and treats – Page 158

      Chapter Eleven – Feeding your pup what’s on the market and easy, but perhaps not healthy or taking the time to make your pup’s food at home – Page 175

      Credits and Acknowledgements – Page 177

      Introduction

      There seems to be a good amount of controversy about what is beneficial in dog food and treats and what things you need to stay away from. I am amazed, with the amount of research I have done in order to start my dog treat business, the differing opinions of even so-called experts who write articles that are contrary to each other. If you have a dog and want to make your own treats, or you would like to start your own business, it can be very lucrative and rewarding, but it will take a bit of work on your part, all the way up to a full- time job.

      I’d like to share what I have found and maybe help your journey along. In this book I’m going to take differing opinions about the ingredients that go into dog foods and treats without making judgments, I’m going to let you make the decisions for yourself.

      You are probably wondering as to why there is yet another dog food awareness book on the market, don’t we have enough now? Well, the answer to that is: have you read a book about something and didn’t understand what the author was saying to you?

      Perhaps the book was too scientific, maybe too technical and boring? You couldn’t understand it because of all the statistics and boring jargon? The author didn’t talk to you in your language and you closed the book not finding what you were looking for or how to help your pet.

      Some of the reports that my contributors share will have statistics because they have a point to make so you will see some numbers and grafts. Feel free to skip over and read what interests you. My purpose is to make it as easy to understand as I can so you can make informed decisions for yourself and your furry companion.

      Chapter One

      My beginnings

      It all started when I happened to go to a farmers market one afternoon.

      At the market was a lady who was selling dog treats that she made at home. She was handing out samples along with a sheet of colored paper. The paper had the names of her treats along with the ingredients that were in them. She did this in case any dogs might have had an allergy to her ingredients.

      I couldn’t believe some of the things she had listed on that sheet. She was taking foods that people eat regularly and adding them to her treats; jams and jellies with sugar, high fructose corn syrup along with the preservatives that are put into those foods, pizza sauce, cake mixes, bread mixes, etc.

      I thought that if I was going to start my own treat business, this was not the example that I wanted to follow. I needed to get the opinions of people that were experts in this field to put me on the right track.

      There are many things a person who wishes to have a business in this field will have to go through if they want to do it right. In my opinion, the first thing to do is perfect your recipes. Decide how many flavors you will have; I had five flavors and two sizes: one size for large dogs and one size for small dogs with tiny mouths. The reason I had five flavors was I wanted to give my clients a choice to pick from, but not so many that it would be confusing. Have you ever gone into a restaurant where they had fifty million items on the menu? It makes it hard to decide just what to order. Also realize that the more flavors you have, the more time you’ll be in the kitchen baking, also, the stores only have so much shelf space they are willing to let you have.

      One of the next steps is; you’ll want to develop solid recipes whereas the shelf life will last a very long time, especially if you don’t want to add preservatives, which is a plus for people who are particular about what they buy for their dogs. Why would you want to ruin healthy treats by having to add preservatives to your recipes? 

      Having ingredients that are compatible with each other is important, there are foods that don’t mix well with other foods and you could have a chemical reaction or spoilage so time testing should be done. Leaving too much moisture in them by not baking them long enough could cause an onset of mold.

      Back to the subject of a short shelf life, a lot of this is dependent on your bake time, cutting or shortening your bake time will result in a softer treat; however, it will also shorten the longevity of the time your treats will last on the store shelves. That problem should not come up by making small batches for your personal use and refrigerating them or keeping them in a cool place in a tight container, but by the same argument, a soft treat won’t clean the tartar off of your pups teeth like hard, crunchy ones would.

      Chapter Two

      Regulations: Let’s get down to business.

      The regulations can be very stringent and should be. After all, we’re talking about somebody’s pets and family members; we don’t want anything to happen to them. There have been so many recalls from commercially made pet food products on the market made out of the country and also from the U.S. market.

      Insurance comes into play here; you don’t want anyone suing you because their pet got sick or died eating your treats. A smart thing and for protection is; you have to purchase many of your ingredients from other sources to make up your treats. If they have a batch number on their products, keep a record of all the batch numbers in a file with your batch number. If you have to recall a product because of your treats spoiling due to one of the ingredients in your treats, you’ll have an idea what caused it or to watch to see if it affects your product.

      That’s what is called covering your a**.

      There are many differing opinions as to where you can bake them, some say that it has to be in

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