[Michael Romanos]

You'll find that super premium dry dog food producers are spreading their products to include so called natural elements - but basically they are catering for the misconceptions that a lot of people have towards protein predominance versus a more balanced diet. Some of the products that Royal Canin currently produces has a high protein content. As I have said a number of times, dogs in the wild will eat anything that moves and is small enough for them to hunt and kill. They have never known about grain or about a host of exceptional vegetables or a complete and balanced diet. There is one group of wild dog/wolf in South America who are almost entirely vegetarian - and they seem to live longer overall than other wild dog groups. Wild dogs have a short life - one such group on average live til they are 4 - and suffer from lots of ailments, mostly to do with their poor and restrictive diets and weather elements.