AI Disclosure
Where AI fits into how we work at BestDog.Food — and where it never gets a say.
What AI Helps With
Grammar cleanup, formatting, structured data, and research support pulling together published sources.
What Stays Human
Every nutrition recommendation and clinical claim is reviewed by a licensed veterinarian.
Why We Disclose It
Readers deserve to know exactly where a human stops and a tool starts.
Who Actually Reviews BestDog.Food’s Content
Clinical and safety claims across our guides are reviewed by Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, DVM, a licensed small-animal veterinarian with more than four decades of clinical experience. His review is a genuine editorial step, not a formality — you can read his full background on our author page.
Where AI Assistance Shows Up
On some articles, AI tools are used after a human draft already exists — for copy editing, formatting for the web, generating structured data (JSON-LD schema), and light research support such as pulling together AAFCO guidance or published veterinary nutrition literature for the writer and reviewer to verify. This is closer to using a research assistant or a spell-checker than to having a tool write the piece.
AI is not used to generate veterinary or nutrition recommendations, invent ingredient claims, or fabricate statistics. Any clinical or safety claim in a BestDog.Food article reflects something reviewed by our veterinarian.
Why We’re Disclosing This
A lot of “best dog food” content online is assembled without anyone checking whether the recommendation is actually sound for the dogs it targets — increasingly, some of it fully AI-generated with no veterinary review at all. We think readers deserve to know exactly how our content is produced, so we’re saying it plainly here.
How This Fits Our Editorial Standards
This disclosure sits alongside our other editorial commitments. For the full picture, see our Editorial Policy, our Corrections Policy, and our general Disclosures page.
This Policy Will Be Updated as Our Process Changes
How AI tools get used in publishing is changing quickly, and our own workflow may change with it. If the role AI plays in producing BestDog.Food content shifts, we’ll update this page to reflect that rather than letting it go stale.
Our Reasoning, In Plain Terms
We didn’t have to write this page. Most sites that use AI in any capacity don’t disclose it, and there’s no legal requirement forcing us to. We’re doing it anyway because a site influencing what someone feeds their dog every day owes readers more transparency than the average blog, not less.
The distinction we draw is between AI as a tool that speeds up mechanical work, and AI as the source of an actual recommendation. A formatting tool doesn’t change whose clinical judgment a guide represents. What would change that is AI inventing an ingredient claim, generating a feeding recommendation, or fabricating a source. We draw the line there.
Questions About This Policy
If you have questions about how AI is or isn’t used on a specific article, contact us:
Email: contact@loopedinlooks.com
Contact form: bestdog.food/contact/
One More Thing Worth Saying Plainly
None of this is meant to make AI sound more sinister than it is, or to make our process sound more artisanal than it is. AI genuinely saves our small team real time on mechanical work, and we’re not embarrassed about using it that way. The only thing we’re careful about is making sure that time savings never quietly becomes a substitute for Dr. Kumar actually reviewing a clinical claim, or for a writer actually checking a source before citing it. That boundary is the whole point of this page.