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It took me a second but I found a site run by About.com and owned by the NYT, it’s called Consumer Search. I found one section dealing with reviewing other websites that review dog food. Consumer Search uses something called a “Credibility Rating“ giving each site a score between 1 and 5 stars. Bottom line is they are doing the work of reviewing the reviewers and this should take a huge burden off the shoulders of pets owners. We need metrics to help us decide what information to use and what information to pass up, Consumer Search is one of those must have sites in our browser favorites.
I hope everyone will take a jaunt with their dog and review all the great info these good people at Consumer Search have made available to us.
Thanks for sharing this!!! I’m always trying to learn about what goes into my dog’s food and trying to find the best for him. This is especially helpful!
Rebecca, thanks for stopping by. I'm glad you found this useful. I'm always looking to blog about things people can use.
I like the concept. Though I am hearing many bad things about dry and canned dog food (e.g., read last weeks raw diet food posts by the guy over at http://DoggyBytes.ca), it would be great if we could get rid of the worst products. Because we vote with our dollars, an educated consumer is a smart consumer. Thanks for the info – any way to more publicly promote this?
Rod glad you could stop by to comment. I agree with you that we vote with our dollars and it would be great if all dog food met the highest standard. There are however millions of pet owners who can't afford organic and specialty food for those in their charge; they are the majority of dog owners and for them shining the light as many of these review sites do will encourage manufacturers to continually improve the quality of pet food. If you are on Twitter please tweet about this story and the review site.. Thanks
That was helpful information. I always wonder what goes on and what is best for the “kids” .
this is a very useful site, thanks for sharing! it does all kinds of consumer product reviews, not only dog food.
Thanks for posting the link to the dog food review sites listing. I work for a manufacturer of a new dog food (made with real food ingredients and no synthetic vitamin/mineral premixes or manmade additives) that really wants to be transparent. The challenge is providing product information/samples to these reviewers as some don't even have contact details and most others haven't responded to info offers sent June/July 2011. The exception is DogAware.com, which has thorough info and listings and responded in less than 24 hours.
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You may also want to ask dog bloggers to review your products. Many food companies do, especially for cumulative coverage.But check with Whole Dog Journal's policy. They may or may not accept submissions, but it's worth a look:)