As melamine keeps popping up in corn gluten and rice protein all around the world, how can you be sure the dog food you’re feeding your beloved pooch is not going to kill him?

The dog food label should state the name and address of the manufacturer. Contact them and ask them how they can assure the safety of their products.

Which certificates do they have?Do they work with certified suppliers only?Are all feed ingredients labeled with a certificate that ensures quality and states the origin of the ingredient?From which countries are ingredients imported?Are all ingredients checked for quality and micro-organisms before processing them into dog food?Are end products checked before distribution?

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The following is a guest post from Feline Fido, a fun site with great collars, leashes, and key fobs, that also is promoting awareness of great causes!

Aimee handed me this wonderful opportunity to tell you a little about my store, FelineFido.com. We offer many designer pet collars, for everyday wear, holidays and a collection of awareness pet collars, leashes and key fobs for the ‘fashionably aware pet’. We are most proud of the way we have managed to combine our love of pet fashions with a way to promote awareness for special causes such as breast cancer, spay & neuter and autism. For each of these causes we offer collars and leashes that send a message and we also donate 15% of the proceeds from the sale of these items to their respective causes.

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