If you listen to XM Radio, you have likely heard the testimonials about Dynamite® pet food. From those customer testimonials you would think that there is nothing better to feed your dogs. Well, the stuff IS awesome, and we feed some to our own dogs almost every day … But, if I am being honest, IT IS NOT THE BEST WAY TO FEED YOUR DOGS!

If you want to give YOUR dogs the VERY best natural dog food there is, you have two other options that beat it out. To help you understand, here is some background:

First, don’t think I am just going to talk about giving them all meat, based on the myth that dogs are “carnivores.” Dogs are not carnivores – they are omnivores. They eat both meat and plants. It is HOW they eat plants. This is what creates the confusion.

If you watch a wild canine make a kill in nature, you will usually see that the first course of the ensuing meal is the stomach, and the contents thereof. This is usually full of partially digested vegetables, and is the “salad” before the entrée. This provides needed plant-based vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals for the dining canine. To the casual observer who doesn’t think about what is in that stomach, they appear to be just eating meat.

After the stomach is gone, the next course is the flesh and bones—together, if the animal is small enough. If it is a larger animal, the bone is chewed and swallowed a little later, but it is still critical to the proper utilization of the flesh. The flesh is an ACID ASH food, and it must be neutralized with about four times as much ALKALINIZING bone and vegetables in order to maintain the healthy balance of 20% acid, 80% alkaline.

If you would like to learn more about all this, get a copy of Dr. Ian Billinghurst’s books on the B.A.R.F. diet, or “Give Your Dog A Bone.”

For the “real” Billinghurst raw food diet, be certain that you get the original books that he wrote. According to the reviews of some of the people that have read his recent books, he has “sold out” to the processed food industry. I don’t know this as fact, as I have not read his recent books. More likely than having “sold out,” Dr. Billinghurst has probably accepted the reality that very few people will take the time to feed their dogs a raw diet. Few would even take the time to feed their FAMILIES a raw diet, even if they understood how much difference it would make to their health. THIS FACT is why the Dynamite dog foods are so relevant to the health of your dog.

The value of the Dynamite® dry dog food is that it is a convenient kibble that doesn’t contain the toxins that are in most ready-to-serve foods. The ingredients are very carefully selected and controlled to assure that the nightmares perpetrated by the mainstream dog food industry are never a factor when feeding any Dynamite product. The food is processed in a plant that never allows any preservatives or toxins through the door, let alone into the food.

But, even that was not good enough for the owners of Dynamite. They dreamed of creating a dog food that was a ready-made, easy-to-feed “BARF” diet. This past year they succeeded in materializing that dream. They have introduced the new “Ultimate Diet for Dogs” — a raw extruded meat and vegetable dog food that is dried into a fine meal. It actually uses fresh-killed whole beef – not “beef by-products.”

The only hooker is that it isn’t ready to just dump out of a bag and walk away from. It is so dry that it needs to be mixed with water, stirred and soaked before feeding, and it is BEST when mixed with fresh, raw vegetables that have been liquefied with water in a Vita-Mix (carrots, spinach, beets, left-over green salad, green beans, etc.). Because of this, most people still prefer to feed the Dynamite® dry dog food – a kibble that can just be poured and forgotten, but with a clear conscience.

Although Dynamite® pet food might be only third-best, it still stands tall against all of the commercial competitors, and the only commercial food that is better is made by the same company …