A dog biscuit is a biscuit-based tough food supplement for dogs or other canines, similar to human snacks.
Dog biscuits tend to be hard and dry. Dog biscuits can be sold in the form of flat bones. The texture of dried and hard biscuits helps clean dogs teeth, promoting oral health.
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History
"Dog Bread", made from bran, has been mentioned since at least Roman times. It has been criticized (as in later centuries) as very bad bread; Juvenal refers to dog bread as "dirt" - "And biting dog bread droppings" Et farris sordes mordere Canini .
In Spain, "pan de perro" was mentioned in early 1623 in a drama by Lope de Vega. This is used here in the sense of giving someone a blow; to "give a dog's bread" to someone can mean anything from treating them unwittingly to killing them. The latter meaning refers to the special bread (also called zarazas ) made with earth glass, toxins and needles and intended to kill dogs.
Bread that is meant for food for dogs is also called parruna and is made from bran. This is very likely what is called in associating bread with (non-fatal) persecution.
In France, Charles Estienne wrote in 1598: "Do not look at bran bread,... Better leave it to hunt, or shepherd or see a dog." In the nineteenth century, "pain de chien" has become a way to refer to the very bad bread: "It is terrible, common, they give us dog bread!"
English dog biscuits seem to be nineteenth-century innovations: "By this it can be combined with far-flung and healthy articles - oat meal, fine pollard, dog-biscuit, potatoes, carrots, parsnips" (1827); "I was in the Maidenhead neighborhood, I checked Mr. Smith's dog biscuit factory, and was surprised to learn that he had made five tons a week in bulk!" (1828)
In the south of England, it is fashionable to give dogs a sport of food called dog-biscuits as a substitute for barley food, and the consequences resulting from this simple diet are most satisfying. Barley-meal, indeed, is an unnatural food, except it varies with bone, because a dog likes to gnaw, and thus to train powerful teeth with which nature has given it; his stomach too. designed to digest hard and difficult substances from animal substances; therefore, barleymeal, as a major part of its subsistence, is not at all desirable. In a small private family it is not always possible to satisfy the sufficiency of meat and bones for the sustenance of a dog, and the way out is too often possessed by rude and dirty aliment, which is highly inappropriate, especially if the creature is told to take daily practice, chained by chains, restricted, to the situation, from gaining access to the grass; and no one who does not pay attention to the habits of our faithful allies (as we have done), can recognize the absolute necessity that exists because it obtains a constant supply of it. If there are no other good effects resulting from the coat's elasticity and clarity of the skin, this benefit should be attained for her; but when health and comfort must also be ensured, who, having a grain of virtue in his character, will hesitate to do so simply and satisfy an act of duty?
The biscuits are hard and hard-roasted masses of coarse, but clean and healthy, from the inferior to the so-called sailor biscuits; and this latter substance, indeed, will be the best substitute for the first one we know. A bag of dogs with five shillings, will be an adequate supply of page dogs for a year: it should be soaked in water, or "pot liquor," for an hour or two; and if there is no meat in hand, a little drip or pork fat can be added to it while softening, which will make a delicious meal at a trivial cost. We have for years learned the usefulness of the plan so as to advocate, and we sincerely recommend all who value the safety of their own communities and communities (not to say the happiness of the dog race), to judge rationally and deserve the plans we have detailed. "(1841)
In the following years, dog biscuits begin to be made from meat products and sometimes treated as synonymous with dog food. In 1871, an advertisement appeared on Cassell's Illustrated Almanac for "MEAT MEAT SLATER FOR DOGS - Contains vegetable substances and about 25 percent of Meat Prepared.This gives Dog endurance, and without any other food will make they are alive. " in good working condition. "
In the UK, Spratt's Dog Biscuits not only get patents but seem to claim to have found food:
With most accounts, industry history begins with a man named James Spratt. An electrician from Cincinnati, Spratt had patented a new type of lightning conductor in 1850. Later that decade, he went to England to sell it. According to industry knowledge, he had enlightenment on the edge of the quayside in London when he saw a group of dogs eating discarded hardtacks, hard and cheap biscuits brought on board and known by sailors as "molar breakers." The first major cut of the pet industry is currently born.
In 1860, still in England, Spratt launched Spratt's Patent Meat Fibrine Dog Cakes, a combination of wheat, beetroot, vegetables, and beef blood. Before long, he had competitors with names like Dr. A. C. Daniels' Medicated Dog Bread and F. H. Bennett's Malatoid Dog Biscuits. These products embraced dubious science and lightly regulated hucksterism in their era. (2009)
More than 70 years ago, at a small shop in London, an electrician named James Spratt conducted an experiment that led to the production of Spratt's Patent - a dog food that is scientifically blended. It was the first attempt to lift the dog out of the scavenger class he had inhabited since the time of the cavemen. The market was untouched, and in those early days, Spratt's Patent secured the dog-bull handle on it that he never let go of, despite the fact that in the last seventy years many competitors have been trying to seize leadership from them. (1920)
In at least one case (in 1886) Spratt sued the seller who was allegedly replacing another product - an early example of a struggling "knock-off" company:
Spratt's Dog Biscuits.
On last Wednesday, at the Quean Bench Division of High Court, before Lord Coleridge and a special jury. The Spratt Patent Company claims an order against Mr. Warnett, a general merchant at St. Albans, who, they say, sell as their particular meat biscuits for dogs rather than from their manufacture. They also request reports on profits, and damages and costs.
The case for plaintiffs is that over the years they and their predecessor, James Spratt, have been producing and selling, under patents in 1868 and 1881, meat biscuits to feed dogs, full names or descriptions which are "Spratt's Patent Meat Dogs Fibrine Cakes, "but often referred to by them, and commonly known in the trade, such as" Spratt's Fibrine Biscuits, "or" Spratt's Dog Biscuits, "or" Spratt's Dog Cakes, "or" Spratt's Meat Biscuits, "or" Spratt's Patent Biscuits , "or" Biscuit Dog Biscuits, "all of which, as the plaintiff affirmed, showed their biscuit making and nothing else. These biscuits are made in square shape, and each is branded with the word "Spratt's Patent" and with the middle. It is alleged that "biscuits have been found most valuable as food for dogs, and have gained an outstanding reputation." They are in great demand, and the plaintiffs derive huge profits from the sale, whose profits will be much greater but, as they might expect, fraudulent scams are often thrown at public as plaintiff biscuits, and then accuse the accused of having been, in plaintiff and public fraud, " has sold to the public, as a genuine dog biscuit of the plaintiff's manufacture, a biscuit which is not from the plaintiff's making but is a fake imitation thereof because to form and appearance, and which does not contain the ingredients of the plaintiff's biscuit.Then some examples are stated in which people sent to the shop of the defendant to ask for biscuits. The Spratt dog receives another similar biscuit, as expected, to the plaintiff in size, appearance, and weight, the only difference being that, in From the words "Spratt's Patent" and cross, which are sold stamped with hexagons and the words "American meat."
Mr Horton Smith, QC, in opening the case for the plaintiffs, said that, suspecting that their biscuits were hijacked by the defendant, they adopted the usual way of sending people to his shop to ask for biscuits of the Spratt dog, and in every instance the American Benton meat biscuit, , size, and general characters, delivered. (April 10, 1886)
Spratt lost in this case and the judge regrets that he can not provide the charges of the accused's trial.
At one point after this, as an industrial product, dog biscuits are classified in the same category as soap: "From making dog biscuits, place censuses in the same category as soap, since using animal waste from which soap oil has been extracted, does not need much talk. "
Spratt dominated the American market until 1907, when F. H. Bennett, whose own biscuit was very weak against big companies, had the idea of ​​making it in bone form. "His 'Boba Maltoid milk' was so successful that for the next fifteen years Bennett's Milk-Bone dominated the commercial dog food market in America." In 1931, the National Biscuit Company, now known as Nabisco, bought the company.
World's Largest Dog Biscuits
The world's largest dog biscuit weighs 279.87 kg and is roasted to 2,000 more than average by Hampshire Pet Products from Joplin, Missouri, USA.
Maps Dog biscuit
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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