Our parents and grandparents and their parents and grandparents before them fed their dogs what was left from the table or from cooking colse to the fire. There were no commercial dog foods. Think back. There was also not the rampant chronic disease that is all too base today in our popular companions, in the form of allergies, diabetes, hypothyroidism and a host of other disorders. The spike in long-term chronic disease in our cats and dogs can be traced back to the advent of commercial, processed food and the push for a myriad of each year vaccines. This article looks at these issues from the nourishment standpoint.
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Dogs are carnivores. They can become what is called an "obligate omnivore", meaning if they can't get the meat they are supposed to have, they will eat anything is ready to survive. That doesn't mean it is what they Should eat, naturally that they will if they have no other choice. It bears repeating. Dogs are carnivores. Whether it be a chihuahua or a Great Dane, the dentition and digestive principles of domestic dogs is still same to that of the wolf. Their teeth are designed for chewing raw meat and crushing raw bone. Their stomach acid is much, much stronger than ours and their intestines much, much shorter, all designed for the processing of raw meat and bone.
For optimum health, you need optimum nutrition. Your dog can survive on highly processed food, much the same as we could survive on Pop Tarts and candy but base sense tells us that is not a wholesome way to eat. Our pets are at the mercy of what we feed them. Like us, fresh, real food is far more wholesome than processed food, synthetic flavorings, preservatives, salt, sugar, etc. Like the old dog food commercials used to say "Meat costs more than cereal", though ironically, the makers of that food were filling it full of grains and meat by-products not fit for consumption.
Years ago, I started request myself why we were looking so many long-term chronic health problems in dogs, both purebred and mutt. I was breeding the best purebred dogs I could, doing health clearances on any used in my breeding schedule and studying canine genetics. Still, when I pulled that food out of a bag, my gut told me something was wrong with this picture. I knew some show breeders that had gone to raw feeding. Raw chicken with bones flies in the face of what we have been taught. Remember though, that vets are often taught everything they know about nourishment by a representative from Purina or Hill's, the makers of Science Diet. Of procedure those fellowships do not want us to reconsider anything that doesn't come in one of their bags! So I began to research raw feeding. The more I studied, the more convinced I became as to the value of real, fresh, raw food. Do Not let anything (including your vet) tell you that raw chicken with bones will kill your dog. While they may have horror stories of dogs getting pancreatitis or perforated intestines from chicken bones, invariably, those were cooked. Cooked bones splinter, raw bones do not. Cooked skin and fat can cause pancreatitis, raw skin and fat is full of those fantastic omega fatty acids that give wholesome skin and coat. If raw meat and bones would kill a dog, why aren't all the wolves dead? When you go to the zoo, you do not see them whipping out a bag of Lion Chow. They are fed species standard food, which in the case of roughly all predators, is raw meat and bone.
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