If you go into your veterinarian's office, or the local health food store and pick out a bag of gourmet dog food for your dog, you think that you are doing the best you can for your pet.
After all, you love him and want him to have the best food, the best nutrition, and the tastiest meal possible.
That is why you buy "gourmet".
But, when you are buying this kind of food, are you really getting your money's worth? And, more importantly, are you really getting food that is more healthful than the food you would buy on the supermarket shelf? Most gourmet pet food is made from the very same ingredients that all the other pet foods are made from.
There is virtually no difference at all, except for the price.
Maybe it tastes better to your dog, and maybe it smells better to you, but it made from the same ingredients and contains all of the same preservatives and additives that even the cheapest brand contains.
What is worse is that this very same gourmet dog food does not contain all the nutrients that your dog food - no commercially-produced pet food does.
They may claim that they contain 100% of a dog's recommended daily value of nutrients, but that is not the case.
Otherwise, why do so many dogs die early deaths? Our dogs go through years of malnutrition, only leading to illness and an early death because we are being totally misled as to what they are eating.
Before you go out and buy your next batch of dog food, do your research and find out what your dog needs as well as what you are actually buying.
You may find out that you don't need to be paying these high prices for gourmet food anymore.