The Peppy Pets Daily
January 29, 2003
Tippy & Alfred have gotten thousands upon thousands of
requests from our readers concerning the Premium food
they eat.
The main reason why people don't purchase a Premium food
for their dog or cat is because the price tag is higher than
most supermarket foods.
We just ran across the below report that proves, once and
for all that:
Premium foods actually cost LESS than the cheap foods do!
Tippy and Alfred and the girls all know they feel and look
a whole lot better after Dave got them off the Nutro and
Hills and on to the Life's Abundance food.
Enjoy your reading,
Tippy & Alfred
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What's The Best Dog Food For Your Money?
By Nan Weitzman and Ross Becker
The sources and availability of nutrients are the
keys to determining the quality of a dog food. Much
has been written lately in the general press about all
dog foods being alike.
Anyone who believes this just doesn't know the facts.
With dog food, the truth is not that you get what you
pay for. You can get less than what you pay for, or more.
It depends on the quality of the ingredients, the
formula, and the nutritional punch of the food.
We like to delve a little deeper into the mysteries
of dog food. We look at various scientific analyses to
determine how much energy a dog food will provide. And
we analyze cost per feeding.
When we began to look at cost per feeding last year, we
discovered an interesting fact:
It costs LESS to feed a Super Premium dog food
than an Economy dog food. The secret is in the
nutritional power of the food.
A Super-Premium dog food contains much More energy
and protein in every kibble than an economy brand.
In one test we ran, we had to feed five times as much
of the Economy brand dog food to get the same
nutritional benefits of the Super-Premium.
Despite the lower cost per bag of the Econo brand, it
costs you more to feed than a Super-Premium, because
you use more bags.
How does cost fit in to the dog food picture? We measured
the cost of 40 pound bags of various maintenance/adult
dog foods and took the manufacturers' suggested feeding
instructions. We then calculated the cost of
feeding a 40 lb house dog for a day.
The Premium foods studied had an average of 22%
crude protein and 10% crude fat. The Super-Premium
dog foods examined had an average of 27% crude protein
and 15% crude fat. The Economy brands averaged 20%
crude protein and 8% crude fat.
The Super-Premium foods suggested feeding an average
of 1-3/4 cups of food per day for our 40 lb dog.
Premium brands recommended 3-1/4 cups, while the Econo
brands instructed feeding 6 cups a day.
It costs an average of:
* 24 cents a day to feed a dog a Super-Premium brand
* 26 cents a day for a Premium brand
* 31 cents a day for an Econo brand!
That's right - the Econo-brand actually costs you 7
cents MORE a day to feed your dog than a Super-
Premium does.
In order to give your dog the nutrition he needs, he has to
eat 3-1/2 times more of the Econo brand than the Super-
Premium food.
Thus, the big difference is in the poop! The seven cents
more that you spend on an Economy brand buys you piles
more in the yard cleanup department.
Something else interesting turned up in our study. If
you have a giant breed, such as an Irish Wolfhound, you
would have to feed your dog at least 12 cups of an
Econo brand for a cost of 64 cents a day.
On a Super-Premium, he'd eat only 4-3/4 cups of food
for a cost of 62 cents a day. That means the top quality
food costs two cents less than the low quality food
to get the same nutrition.
The bigger the dog, the narrower the margin of savings
the Super-Premiums give. However, for my money, I'll
take the Super-Premiums any day - can you imagine having
to clean up the result of 12 cups of food a day per
Wolfhound?? (Feeding a bigger dog on a Premium dog food
costs 1/3 of a cent less than the Super-Premium,
although you will still be feeding more and would
have greater stool volume.)
Working with a kennel of 70 active hunting dogs over
the last three years, we tested 10 different brands of
dog food ranging from Econo brands to Super-Premiums.
We found that it doesn't pay to feed a cheap-quality
dog food.
The better the quality of the food, the LESS it took
to feed our dogs.
Even at a higher price per bag, we saved several cents per
feeding per dog. The better quality the food, the better the value.
Here's an example in our Foxhound kennel. The typical
dog weighs about 70 pounds. It costs an average of 86
cents per dog per day to feed a Super-Premium brand,
compared to S1.01 per dog per day for a Premium brand.
When we fed a Regular brand, it cost us $1.12 per dog
per day. When we fed an Econo brand, our cost
soared to $1.35 per dog per day.
Super-Premium dog foods are more digestible so more
of the nutrients are utilized. This means less poop
is produced. Super-Premiums are more nutrient dense and
less expensive to feed than Economy, Regular and some
Premium brands.
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Oh My Goodness
By: Tippy
When Dave started feeding us the Premium-Quality food we
are now Thriving on.....he about choked when he first saw
the price on the bag.
But for years Dave had bought a food based mostly on
price....it was always the cheap stuff for me.
And...sadly...I paid a price.
A Big price.
I got sick...real sick. Required major surgery, not once but
twice to get me better again.
Dave got sick too.
Dave paid a price.....A Big price to get me well.
Try about $1400.00 in veterinarian bills.
All that cheap supermarket food did was make me
sick....gave me a poor coat.....a whole lot of fleas.....
a body with no energy.....and the beginnings of arthritis.
After the second surgery (Dave really did choke on that
vet bill!!!!).....but it did wake him up and he broke down and
paid the price for bag of the Premium-Quality food.
Well...Woof Woof Woof!
Guess what happened?
I started feeling a whole lot better.
Within a couple of weeks I had my old energy levels back,
it was like I was 5 years younger. My limp started going
away, and I was able to run up stairs again and easily
jump up into Dave's big truck.
Within a couple of months, my coat got a whole lot shinier
and SOFT!
Plus: NO MORE FLEAS!!!!! Glory Hallelujah!!!
No more scratching and biting....I was in 7th Heaven.
I felt Great!
And guess what else the big dummy Dave found out?
He only fed me HALF the amount of the Premium-Quality
food as he had been feeding the El-Cheapo brand. And
I wasn't hungry anymore like I used to be hungry All the
time before.
I wasn't getting the nutrients I needed.
Now I am.
You don't believe me?
Then I challenge you to try a bag of Premium-Quality food
for yourself and You see the Difference in your dog.
don't take my word for it.
We're interested in the health and well being of your precious
feline & canine friend. Premium-Quality foods work the same
for kitties....just ask Alfred and the girls.
You've actually got nothing to lose by trying a bag of the food
for your pet. Our food even comes with a 100% money
back guarantee (minus shipping) if you're not satisfied.
Check Out the Links Below
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What Others Are Saying
"Life's Abundance Premium Health Food has increased the
vitality of all my dogs, added shine to their coats and
decreased the amount of shedding."
Pam Edwards, DVM
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"My dog, Chichi, is now eating Life's Abundance food and
Loving It! My husband and I noticed a Dramatic Change!!
Not only is her coat soft and shiny, but her eyes are
brighter and she has more spunk than ever. I should have
put her on this dog food from the start. Thank you for
your wonderful products. I'm hooked!"
M.H., Texas
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"We had a couple of month's backlog of the dog food,
as Falcor quit eating as much once he was finished growing.
So I cancelled the autoship for a while."
"When he finished the Life's Abundance food, Tom
decided to see how he would do on store-bought until
I had time to set up the autoship again."
"So, for a month Falcor ate grocery-store dog food."
"I figured it would prove the value of the food to Tom.
Boy was I right! Within two weeks, Falcor's coat got dull,
and he began having bouts of diarrhea. And he was
shedding madly."
"So...the coat problem could have been just from being
at a shedding point, right? Diarrhea could have been from the
new bones Tom gave him."
"But...after 3 weeks, we noticed that he was scratching all
the time, and had chewed the hair off under his front legs. His
shedding increased, and his breath began to stink."
"Needless to say, he's back on the Life's Abundance
Daily Nutritional System, and all the above problems are
beginning to go away. I hate to remember the beloved dog
I had years back who continually suffered from "flea allergy"
that no doubt was actually malnutrition. I had no idea."
Diana Ward,
Editor, Dogs, Cats, & More E-zine
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Tippy & Alfred Recommend:
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dogs & cats contains only fresh, natural, wholesome ingredients.
It provides 100% Complete Nutrition in
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