Merrick Grain Free Real Chicken & Sweet Potato Dog Food
How much you should feed your pet depends on its age and activity level. Daily feeding amount in food label only serves as a reference.
Ingredients in pet food should be high quality and highly digestible. Your pets cannot digest feathers, hide or hoofs (animal digest / by-products).
Both flaxseed oil and fish oil provide omega-3 EFAs. However, the omega-3 EFA in flaxseed oil (ALA) is an inactive form and must be converted to EPA and DHA, the active forms of omega-3 EFA.
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
─ Mark Twain
Complete and balanced pet food are those with added vitamins and minerals. Those without are labeled as food for supplementary feeding only.
Brushing your dog's teeth at least 3 times a week is essential for good dental health. Train your dog to accept teeth brushing early on.
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
– Josh Billings
Small breeds tend to live longer than larger breeds. Tiny and toy breeds only become "seniors" when they are around age 10.
The majority of essential oils are toxic to cats. All cats lack glucuronyl transferase, a liver enzyme, that helps to break down most essential oils.
Dogs scoot because of overly full anal glands. Adding fiber to your dog's diet can minimize the necessity of manual anal gland expression.
"In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats."
- Unknown
Paraben and its derivatives are commonly found in pet shampoo to prolong shelf life, but they may cause allergic contact dermatitis in pets and human.
Freeze drying is a process that involves freezing the product, lowering pressure, then removing the ice by sublimation. In contrast, conventional drying uses heat to remove water.
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
– Anatole France
Dogs and cats most often develop allergies to the protein in meat and dairy products. Hydrolysis is a method to break down protein molecules to prevent food allergies.
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
– Roger Caras
Some low-quality cat litters contain crystalline silica dust. Crystalline silica can may accumulate in your cat’s lungs, resulting in silicosis.
“Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
– George Eliot
Digestive enzymes and probiotics can help maintain a healthy digestive tract and improve the absorption of nutrients.
Grapes, raisins and currants can cause kidney failure in dogs. Currently, it is not known why these fruits are toxic. Individual dogs have different sensitivities to these fruits.
Some common house plants are poisonous to dogs and cats. If you see your pets chewing on the plants, it is better to remove the plants.
Preservatives such as Ethoxyquin and BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) are banned from human consumption. Avoid them in pet food as well.
"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."
- Terry Pratchett
Some nutrients are lost due to heat and high pressure in pet food production. Vitamins and minerals are added to make the food complete and balanced.
Chocolate is toxic to dogs because it contains a chemical called theobromine. The first signs of theobromine poisoning are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and increased urination.
The first three ingredients are the most important in pet food. You can tell if the food is grain based or meat based.
"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat."
- Ellen Perry Berkeley
Pet food usually includes these essential nutrients: protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, water.
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
– Will Rogers
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Dogs thrive on quality protein and healthy fats. That is why Merrick Grain Free Real Chicken & Sweet Potato Dry dog food provides balanced nutrition with real whole foods sourced from local farmers. This natural, grain free formula dog food is ideal for all life stages and all breeds of dogs with a focus on naturally nutrient rich ingredients to support overall health.
Dogs thrive on quality protein and healthy fats. That is why Merrick Grain Free Real Chicken & Sweet Potato Dry Dog Food provides balanced nutrition with real whole foods sourced from local farmers. This natural, grain free formula dog food is ideal for all life stages and all breeds of dogs with a focus on naturally nutrient rich ingredients to support overall health. Deboned Chicken is the first ingredient and helps comprise the 70% of meat and fish sourced ingredients that help build and maintain lean, healthy muscle tissue with high quality protein, support healthy skin and coat with omega fatty acids and support joint health with glucosamine. The 30% Fresh produce fortifies this high quality grain free canine diet with potatoes, sweet potato, peas, apples and blueberries offering vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Easily digestible carbohydrates like potatoes and sweet potatoes offer the benefit of sustained energy without upsetting grain-sensitive systems.
Like with all of our recipes, we locally source our farm fresh ingredients to ensure the highest quality. As a result, Merrick recipes don’t contain any ingredients from China and are made in our own five-star kitchen and manufacturing facilities that uphold the strict guidelines well defined by the FDA.
