your dog magazine - amazed not in a good way

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My neighbour gets this and bless her gave me her latest copy to read. It has their product awards in and am amazed! Says they are voted for by readers. Best wet food is pedigree tins and bakers is highly recomended as a dry complete food! :( Winner of dry food was James wellbeloved so at least that not too bad. Best health product - dentastix.

Loads of people must buy this mag and turn to it for advice and there it is. It is not practical for everyone to feed raw etc and I don't myself but there are plenty of better things than bakers. Scary voted for by their readers who feed their poor dogs that stuff.
 
Our Rottie came to us a few weeks ago with a large bag of Bakers and the smelliest breath I have ever had the misfortune to get a whiff of. Even the vet gagged when she smelt it and suggested she had her teeth cleaned when she goes in to be spayed in a few months time. We have changed her food, she is on a working dog mix and yesterday I realised she didn't have horrible dog breath any more. Can't believe what a difference a change of food has done and can't believe what the Bakers must have been doing to her innards to give her breath like she had.

Unfortunately it looks good to the human eye, many don't read the packets and see what is in it.

I'm surprised at Your Dog though, I used to get it years ago and always thought it offered good advice, it must have changed.
 
These foods are heavily advertised (as they are owned by mammoth multinationals) and Pedigree especially has been ingrained into peoples psyches for decades thanks to aggressive advertising.
These foods have buzzwords connected like 'nutritious' and 'balanced' and 'everything your dog needs' when reading the back of the tin or bag tells you that this is a fallacy, these words are just...words.
These foods are available everywhere - you can pick them up when you do your grocery shopping, the tins are in every corner shop in even the smallest villages.
And if Fluffy lives for 14 years, even if his teeth are disintegrated and he is fat as a fool and limping and his poos resemble melted Ferrero Rochers, then it is a good food.
A lot of pet owners don't want to drive for miles or sort out mail order or pay over the odds or give themselves any extra work just to feed their pet dog.
 
I bought the mag once and its very thin for the price. It was full of adverts and didnt have many articles in it (much like the Horse magazine which repeats the same article every season and has high priced fashion in it).

So yes you can imagen the people who buy it are the regular dog owners who dont do research and I presume that in every edition there are some nice glossy adverts for bakers and pedigree.
 
I would have expected adverts as this pays and only way to make business work but this was a product awards which people would look to as recomendation for what is best.
 
People are lazy, suggestible and have forgotten the art of research and information gathering.

This is why people are still out there buying puppy farmed pups, unsuitable breeds, feeding them crap and faffing their little lives up.
 
When you look what some people feed kids and themselves, despite all the info out there, it isn't really that much of a shock.
Don't forget that on the subject of advertising - advertising pays - no ads, no publication. Horse and Hound included!
 
I went to my brother in laws over xmas. They have a westie, there was bakers in his dish, so I said oh my god, stop feeding him that, my sis in law said well he's had it all his 8 years of life and is fine on is so far, I was like oh well that's ok then he can just go ahead an cark it now he's reached 8 on it, I can't believe after being told what's in it someone would carry on feeding it
 
Just had a dog in today that I've not seen for a few months. Anyway, nice wee cavvie and I'd been begging the owner to gake her to the vet or change her diet (from Bakers) or do SOMETHING! She had horrible baldy patches, big fatty lumps, flaky skin....she came in three months after I'd first mentioned it to them and suggested it was perhaps my shampoo causing the above problems. hmmmm, not likely.

Anyway, back in today and her coat has grown back (still has the fatty lumps, but her weight has improved even still). No more flaky skin. And she simply changed her diet. Not to anything wonderful per se...just off the Bakers (to Pedigree Chum).
 
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