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Opponent outlook: Northern Illinois
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Single-game ticket sales begin July 11
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Tribe needs to slow down opponents
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Stallworth test showed marijuana
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Men's Basketball Scheduling update
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Updated: Free Agency: Another Gone - Apparently
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IPCC Already Wrong About Global Warming
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Wow….Sarah Palin Resigns Governorship
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Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth of July
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Highland senior receives honor
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Picnic Wear
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Where do We Go from Here?
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Hate Crime in Fort Worth Texas: "That F***t had it Coming"
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Linda asks-where is the Ohio Chautauqua?
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Rundgren fans rejoice!: Second night of AWATS at The Civic added
HRLite House:
Sport Psychology and Performance Consulting
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Hot link: Best of Nintendo at E3
Published on Saturday, Apr 26, 2008
Q: My dog food company has come out with so many varieties of dog food that it is hard to find the one I want on the shelf. Aren't all dog foods pretty much the same?
A: Not even remotely. There's a dramatic difference between grocery store or pet store brands and super-premium brands sold in health food stores. The latter is typically made of human-grade food and that's what you want.
In The Dog Bible, author Tracie Hotchner translates several common dog food ingredients: The everyday word for powdered cellulose is sawdust and crude protein translates to ground beaks, hair and feathers.
Read the labels yourself sometime. Look for ingredients you know and love and understand, — salmon, carrots, vitamin E — and the shortest list of them possible. Good food pays in the long run. Some people go one step higher and make it themselves from fresh, pristine ingredients. Problem is, it's not easy to get pet nutrition right, which is why they have dog food companies in the first place.
Beacon Journal staff writer Connie Bloom can be reached at 330-996-3568 or cbloom@thebeaconjournal.com.
Q: My dog food company has come out with so many varieties of dog food that it is hard to find the one I want on the shelf. Aren't all dog foods pretty much the same?
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