All of the above mentioned top dog food brands are the leaders in the market not due to low price and mass production, but because they spend a lot of resources in formulating appropriate and healthy dog foods
for general dog population.
Not exact matches
OFA, PennHip, or CERF clearances on your puppy's parents do not guarantee that your puppy will not inherit the diseases, but such testing is currently the best methodology available
for reducing the overall incidence of these diseases in the
general dog population.
The mean values
for each
dog on the control diet suggests that
dogs were generally scoring low across categories anyway which suggests that, in
general these were not necessarily a particularly anxious
population of
dogs that were studied.
The feeding guidelines on the
dog food bags are
for the
general canine
population and may not be appropriate
for your
dog.
The ratio of affected male
dogs (90) to female (56) was 1:0.62, differing significantly from the 1:1.08 male to female ratio
for the
general Irish wolfhound
population during the same time period (p = 0.001; an average of 2502
dogs were born yearly).
Being a responsible
dog owner means thinking farther than just your own
dog, but thinking about the
dog population in
general, and what is good
for all
dogs as well as your own.
Some of these
dogs are then used
for breeding and their offspring bring these defects deeper into the
general population.
While there is some evidence that intact, large and giant breed
dogs may be less prone to a certain few health problems, the
general lack of personal responsibility evinced by most humans in this culture make spaying and neutering absolutely necessary
for pet
population control.