How to select the best hills canine dog food.

How to select the best hills canine dog food.

Here are the things that I look for in a canine dog food::
No generic fats or proteins instead, look for named sources such as beef fat, chicken fat or lamb meal.

• I don't consider poultry fat as bad as animal fat, but chicken fat is better. Never feed a food that uses the generic ingredients "meat meal", "meat and bone meal", or "animal fat".
• Human grade ingredients.
• This item is somewhat controversial, as hills canine dog food by law cannot be labeled human grade, but I look for companies that use human grade meats.
• For even higher quality, look for hormone- and antibiotic-free meats, especially those that are free-range or pasture-raised.
• Avoid foods that use corn gluten meal, a cheap waste product from the human food industry that provides incomplete protein for dogs.
• I consider this hills canine dog food ingredient to be one of the hallmarks of poor quality foods. Wheat gluten meal, one of the ingredients that caused illness and death due to contamination in the recent Menu Foods recall, is similar a cheap source of poor quality protein used primarily by the lower-quality foods.
• Rice protein concentrate, which was also involved in the pet food recalls, is a little better quality than the other two, but still provides incomplete plant protein rather than the more desirable animal protein. Soy protein has the same problem.
• No meat by-products or digest. There is some disagreement whether whole meat is preferable to meal.
  
• Meal has been rendered, but it is also dried, so if a meal is listed as the first ingredient, there is greater likelihood that the food contains more meat than grains.
• When whole meats such as chicken, lamb, turkey, etc. are listed as the first ingredient, there may actually be much less meat due to the weight of the moisture in the meat.
• Both whole meats and meals are considered acceptable as long as they are identified and not generic.
• By-products may be OK if the company specifies that they are human-grade organs such as liver and kidney, but otherwise they usually signify parts not considered fit for human consumption.