This page explains how Your Dogs Food chooses topics, researches and writes guides, checks facts, and corrects mistakes. In short: every specific fact links to a published source, AI-assisted drafts are fact-checked against those sources before publishing, and medical topics need a veterinarian’s review.
Who we are
Your Dogs Food is an independent site run by Hasmukh Gagal, a software developer. Nobody writing for the site is a veterinarian or veterinary nutritionist, and our guides never claim otherwise. You can read more about us.
Sources we use
We rely on primary and expert sources, including:
- Veterinary organizations, such as the World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) and the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA)
- Regulators and standards bodies, such as the FDA and the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO)
- Veterinary references and schools, such as the Merck Veterinary Manual and university veterinary nutrition services
- Peer-reviewed research
- Manufacturers, for facts about their own products only, such as calorie content
We don’t use other affiliate blogs, forums or AI-generated pages as sources. Every specific number, guideline or definition in a guide links to the source it came from, and each guide ends with a list of its sources.
How a guide is made
- Topic. We choose questions dog owners actually search for, using keyword data, and focus on everyday feeding and nutrition.
- Research and draft. An AI system researches the topic from the kinds of sources listed above and drafts the guide, linking each fact to the page it came from.
- Automated checks. Software checks that every link points to a source that was actually read, that the guide makes no claims of personal experience or credentials, and that it meets our length and structure standards.
- Independent fact check. A separate AI review, which did not write the draft, re-reads the sources and verifies each claim. If any claim isn’t clearly supported, the guide fails.
- Publish or hold. Guides that pass every check are published. Anything that fails, or that the checks are unsure about, is held for a person to review before it can be published. Published guides are also reviewed regularly after they go live.
Each guide ends with a note saying it was drafted with AI assistance and checked against its sources.
Health and medical topics
Our guides are general information for healthy dogs and are not veterinary advice. We do not diagnose conditions or recommend treatments. Guides about diseases or medical conditions are never published automatically: they are only published after review by a licensed veterinarian, whose name appears on the page.
Calculators
Each calculator explains the formula it uses and links to the published source for it. Where sources disagree, the page says so. Calculator results are starting estimates, and we say that on every tool.
Products, ads and affiliate links
We don’t accept payment for coverage, and we don’t claim to have tested products we haven’t tested. The site is funded by Google AdSense ads and may include affiliate links; neither affects what we write. See our affiliate disclosure.
Corrections and updates
If you find an error, please tell us through the contact page. We check the claim against the sources and correct the page when the sources support the change. Guides are updated when the guidance they rely on changes.