Dog nutrition is a heavily marketed and frequently misinformed domain. Evidence-based feeding decisions significantly improve dog health and welfare while resisting commercial pressure.
Dog nutrition is an area where marketing has substantially outpaced science, creating widespread owner confusion and potential welfare harm. Premium pricing and natural-sounding claims correlate poorly with nutritional quality. Grain-free diets, raw feeding, and boutique protein diets are marketed as superior without robust supporting evidence and in some cases with evidence of harm. Welfare-centered nutrition focuses on evidence: complete and balanced formulation, appropriate caloric density, and life-stage suitability — not ingredient lists designed to appeal to human food preferences rather than canine nutritional needs.