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More protein in pet food is NOT necessarily better. You may have heard of pets having "hot spots", a sore that he/she constantly licks. This is actually an excretion of excess protein through the skin. An animal's system has no way to rid itself of this excess heat (produced by high protein) other than panting.
ACTUAL INGREDIENT LABELS
Here are the results of a few commercially available dog and cat foods compiled from simply READING LABELS!!!
Pedigree Mealtime Small Crunchy Bites: Ground corn, meat and bone meal, wheat mill run, animal fat (preserved with BHA/BHT), digest of poultry by-products, etc. etc.
Friskies Alpo with Lamb meal, rice and barley: Ground yellow corn, poultry by-product meal, lamb meal, animal fat (stabilized with BHA), digest (poultry by-products, beef and beef by-products), soybean meal, brewers rice, etc. etc. The Dog Food Report 16
The Dog Food Report Purina fit and trim: Ground yellow corn, soybean meal, soybean hulls, ground wheat, corn gluten feed, corn gluten meal, turkey by-products, etc., etc.
Friskies Alpo(Chunky with Liver)—CANNED: Water sufficient for processing, meat by-products, chicken, liver, poultry by-products, soy flour, caramel color, etc., etc.
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