Canola Oil Free Dog Food
After 1 2 days on the rice mix you would gradually change your dog back to the normal dog food.
Canola oil free dog food. However a great deal of research shows canola oil is anything but healthy. If you re feeding your dog a grain free dog food you may be alarmed to find out that many grain free dog foods contain peas and legumes as a source of energy and fiber. We have been tight on money so took pains to find the least expensive dog food of reasonable quality and grain free for our dogs. Greg aldrich no reports of issues with acceptance or adverse reactions have surfaced in the veterinary community canola oil inclusion in the diets for people and experimental animals has been reported.
Peas may not have caused much alarm in the past but now that researchers may have found a link between peas legumes potatoes and a condition that causes an enlarged heart in dogs you may want to be more careful. It is a genetically modified product derived from rafeseed oil which is predominantly used in china japan and india. Is it free of lesser oils such as canola and soybean. I thought â â how isâ canola oilâ healthy.
We were directed to a new dog food that had canola oil listed as its fourth ingredient. Does the dog food include meat organs and cartilage to provide added nutrition to the diet and to support joint health. Every once in a while a customer comes into the store and asks about canola oil as they have read a lot of scary things on the internet about it. Posted august 12 2012 by green dog filed under canola diet and health specific ingredients.
Canola oil separating fact from fiction. Like so many products that manufacturers consider safe but really aren t canola oil has a very checkered past. The fda provided canola oil a heart healthy status in 2006. Several even utilize the heart healthy claim provided to canola oil by the fda.
The heart healthy status was petitioned by the u s. We lack research about canola oil being fed to dogs or cats this is a gap but not an indictment what we know about feeding it to dogs and cats is extrapolated from other species. How is it even species appropriate for our carnivorous pets. Does the dog food include healthy oil sources such as animal fat flax and chia seed salmon and sunflower oil.
Is the dog. By green dog pet supply. On day 4 mix a little tiny bit of the normal food in there and decrease the frequency so it is down to 3 meals or so. Many commercial dog and cat foods today use canola oil in their products and until recently i thought it was an ok ingredient.
Canola oil also surprisingly contains a selection of vitamins. Many sites online claim that canola oil is a poisonous substance an industrial. In canada plant breeders developed a genetic. Canola oil in pet foods as you faithful readers know i don t feed my own pets processed pet foods nor do i ever recommend it be fed to anyone s pets.
Our two oldest dogs got extremely sick on it with vomiting diarrhea and extreme lethargy and the younger ones started getting loose stools and eating a lot of grass. Many different brands of dog foods and cat foods have chosen to use canola oil in their products. I recently saw a couple of pet food companies bragging about thier food containing healthy canola oil in thier foods. So on day 3 give the rice mixture but bigger meals spaced further apart.
While there are certainly more preferred sources of these fatty acids such as whole fish ingredients like mackerel and salmon canola oil is a straightforward and cost effective solution for many dog food brands and manufacturers.