WHY USING INDUSTRIALLY MADE PET FOOD?
A question that all pet owners ask, sooner or later, is the following: why are we using industrially made pet food instead of good home-made food? In fact, there is no answer “completely in favour” of a ready-to-use pet food: rather, it may be possible that a particularly knowledgeable, careful, and scientifically prepared pet owner, with a lot of free time, be able to provide the dog with perfectly balanced home-made food, better meeting its nutritional needs.
Unfortunately, it does not occur in most cases: food home-made by an ‘average’ owner (or breeder too), who is not a professional nutritionist, is often prepared more from his/her heart than from a scientific knowledge and does not at all meet the dog’s need.
Many owners ignore the existence of food harmful to the dog (sauces, ham and similar, chocolate, sweets, anything too “greasy” or “too salty”) and while thinking of doing it a big favour, they are instead “poisoning” their friend. In other cases they ignore, for instance, that the dog does not digest starch, and that pasta or rice (main sources of carbohydrates) must be overcooked and then washed to make it more digestible to the dog. But the main problem is the balancing of portions: even if the owner knew, for instance, that the dog needs 25% of proteins, 10% of fats and 3 mg of Vit. B2 . . . how could he/she reach this result only having at his/her disposal a lump of mince meat, a bottle of olive oil and an egg? The main answer to the question “why ready-to-use pet food?” is: because nutritionists, who prepare formulations, exactly know how to achieve the wanted result and have technical means to prepare balanced food, whereas private owners find it extremely difficult to get to the same result with kitchenware or other domestic means. To this unquestionable advantage other minor ones can be added, such as ease and quickness in preparing meals, handiness in case of trips and journeys, the possibility of stocking big quantities of well preserved food at home without running the risk of wasting and discarding and so on.
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