It’s great to see that you are playing an active role in your dog’s nutrition; however I believe your husband has been misinformed regarding the addition of garlic. Administered correctly it is highly beneficial to your dog’s overall health. I assure you Wag Garlic & Rice is safe to feed; it would be extremely foolish and self-destructive for us to add garlic if it was not beneficial to your pets health. We add less than 0.1% of garlic to our product, that’s like 1/2 of a clove in a 3kg Wag Garlic & Rice roll. We cook around 32,000kg of this particular formula per week, so probably more than 9,000 dogs are eating this daily in New Zealand and have been doing so for more than 40 years without any issues. The garlic odour may vary as it is a natural product.
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Dogs can satisfy their requirement of Vitamin A, Vitamin C and arachidonic acid (a fatty acid used for formation of cell membranes), from other substitutes those predominantly found in plant tissue. But for the cat, those nutrients have to be found elsewhere. Dogs have the enzymes that convert the ß carotene found in vegetables into Vitamin A, but cats don't have this enzyme, so cats can't utilise the ß carotene in vegetables. Animal tissue is the cats only natural source for Vitamin A. Butch rolls, tubs, and cans are formulated based on fresh animal protein, also for quick energy supply and for some other nutritional improvements we include some sources of carbohydrate.