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Dog Food - Do You Think About What You Feed Your Dog?
By Bill Coughlin
There is a growing awareness across this country that we all need to make wiser choices in the foods that we consume. Increasingly, we are trying to improve our diet and nutritional profile by choosing more wholesome and less processed foods. We are slowly beginning to appreciate the fact that Mother Nature has already provided us with the tools needed to live a healthy lifestyle. The further we stray from her, the worse we feel and the more we visit the doctor. Intuitively, when we live a fast food lifestyle, we know it is detrimental to our health, but it is difficult to break from the addictions of the convenient, preservative laden, MSG cuisine that has been imposed on us in the modern world and promoted by corporate America. I think that all Dog owners have a BIG problem, which is actually quite dangerous, and that is what we feed our dogs. It is one of the biggest mistakes that we can make as pet owners to believe that a Dog can eat whatever we eat. This is probably a result of us integrating the pet into our family and considering the animal to be one of our own but this is a costly mistake. One of the first steps that you need to take when planning out your Dog's diet is to stop giving the Dog scraps from the table. Remember that we are still largely herbivores as far as our digestive system goes but a Dog is completely carnivorous. This means that a high fiber diet of biscuits made of whole wheat could cause a lot of problems for your Dog. Additionally, high fat diets can also play havoc with a Dog's hormonal system. A Dog requires a largely protein diet with a minimum amount of carbohydrates and fat. Protein that you do give your Dog must be in the form of animal protein and not plant protein. A dog's intake of essential nutrients like vitamins will also come from its carnivorous diet and it is highly inadvisable to feed it vitamin supplements. · Chicken
· Beef
· Mutton
· And Pork are all allowed meats that you can feed a dog but you must be careful to ensure that you are feeding your dog the right quantities with the fat of the meat reduced. Within the holistic veterinary community, it is said that poor diet accounts for 90% of all disease, whether it be a factor or a direct cause. With multiple varieties of cancer, diabetes, obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic renal failure, and other common illnesses running rampant within the Dog population, why would we not strive to provide our Dogs with a cleaner, less tainted and more natural food supply? Also ensure that your dog gets the adequate amount of exercise it deserves with daily walks and runs. The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
Winston Churchill
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Dogs are actually omnivorous when times are hard. It isn't so much WHAT you feed your dog but HOW MUCH. Dogs should be fed to a routine and should only be allowed as much food as they will eat. A dog that picks at its food is over-fed - a hungry dog will wolf its food down as quickly as possible (an ancestral memory from the wild where food was won by main force). Once your dog stops eating, remove the food bowl and any food that remains in it. To be efficient in its digestion, it helps if you deny your dog food one day in every week or two. The length of a dog's digestive tract and the amount of time that food remains within it means that only very virulent poisons will harm your pet. Dogs have a high tollerance of (and desire for) rotten food although we don't feed it to them. Whatever you feed your dog, feed it raw.
A couple of years ago I wrote a small intel relating to the dangers of certain foods and their poisonous affects on dogs entitled: DANGEROUS "People food" can kill your dog! my wife and I found out the hard way when our small terrier was found nearly dead after eating just one grape! I done a little research after and found there are a number of foods that can easily kill a dog!
There are many foods that dogs should not eat and most of them. like grapes, a dog will not normally touch. Raisins, chocolate and onions are also dangerous to dogs. My Perro Pastor Catala will eat anything she can get into her mouth - including onions out of the field - and never has a bit of a problem. My little Cairn Terrier only has to smell an onion from close up and he is violently ill. It is important to remember that dogs are not hairy little people and should be fed on what dogs could be expected to eat - not what we find in the supermarket.
You make excellent points. I don't have a dog (this is cat country!) but I do know that all domestic animals do better on an appropriate diet. Heck, a lot of the food humans eat is barely fit for consumption -- in some cases, our pets eat better. LOL
Makes good sense. But often it's hard not to give in to your dog when it begs for food...
Cats, too! There are many plants that are ornamental and fun to grow, but can be toxic to pets, too.
My dog eats very good food (no processed or any kind of store-bought dog food). The only issue we have is that she never stops begging... lol
You have a very interesting website and intel, Bill.
Best Wishes,
Laraine
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