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Choosing Appropriate Dog Food

Start with a diet whose nutritional-adequacy statement matches your dog’s life stage. Complete and balanced food is intended to provide a sole diet; treats and supplements usually are not.

Discuss your dog’s age, health, size, activity, body condition, and dietary needs with your veterinarian. Marketing words alone do not establish nutritional adequacy.

Follow feeding and storage directions, monitor the individual dog, and adjust with appropriate advice. The earlier article’s unavailable infographic, guaranteed happiness claims, and inaccurate raw-egg/bloating statement have been removed.

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