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Pet Health Care Part 1 - Dog Nutrition

If you're like most dog owners, you population subsets. How do these 10 dogs
probably assume that commercial dog foods fare in their lifetimes when they eat
with brand names that are easily cheap kibble every day? How about those
identifiable - Purina, Iams, Pedigree, 12 dogs who are getting a vegetarian diet
etc. - must be good for your pets, right? all the time? And what happens to those
After all, millions of pet owners buy 25 dogs who are being given a raw meat
them and feed them to their beloved pets, and bones diet? These are the types of
and surely they wouldn't all give their questions I've asked as I've dealt with
dogs something harmful. Unfortunately, large numbers of dogs and their owners or
this may just be the case.Now, before I keepers over the years.These have in no
get any further along, let me make it way been controlled experiments, and I
clear that I am not a veterinarian. I do, would never attempt to pass them off as
however, have a science background and authoritative or as adhering to any
education, and I've had more dogs in my strict interpretation of the scientific
care in one year than most people will method. In other words, take my
have in a lifetime. As an observant and conclusions with a large grain of salt.
naturally curious person, I've paid close I'm really just out to get the wheels
attention in the past 20 years to the turning in the minds of all dog lovers
general health of my pets and those I've who read these words.
had in my care through a rescue shelter I After all of this careful observation
was involved with for several of those and tracking, clear patterns have emerged
years. I've also picked the brains of time and time again...Using Commercial or
several top vets in my state in my quest Wet FoodDogs that eat commercial kibble
to get to the heart of the matter or wet food have lots of health problems
concerning the best dog diet.What has later in life and tend to die youngest.
become abundantly clear is that one type This is even true when they've been fed
of diet stands well above all others in "premium" dog foods, sadly.Using
terms of fostering good health and long Vegetarian DietDogs that are fed
life. More on that later...I've seen dogs vegetarian diets do better, but must be
fed commercial foods, both wet and dry, given large amounts of alternative
from the cheapest brands to the so-called protein sources to make up for the lack
"premium" brands. I've also seen dogs who of it in standard vegetarian fare. A
were fed vegan or vegetarian diets, as purely vegetarian diet is difficult to
well as those fed raw meat and bones provide that will satisfy a canine's
(known popularly as the BARF Diet). While basic nutritional needs, but it is
individual dogs will do just fine on any healthier and leads to slightly longer
of these widely divergent diets, what life spans than any commercial brand
I've looked for are general trends in diet.




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