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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.

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By Craig Daniels
January 13, 2010

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  1. Rebecca said
    on January 13, 2010

    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!

  2. webnh said
    on January 14, 2010

    Rebecca, thanks for stopping by. I'm glad you found this useful. I'm always looking to blog about things people can use.

  3. GoPetFriendly said
    on January 14, 2010

    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?

  4. webnh said
    on January 14, 2010

    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

  5. Dog Art- T Moody Designs said
    on January 14, 2010

    That was helpful information. I always wonder what goes on and what is best for the “kids” .

  6. Bloggie Stylish said
    on January 15, 2010

    this is a very useful site, thanks for sharing! it does all kinds of consumer product reviews, not only dog food.

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