Did You Know Your Dog Food Could Be Killing Your Best Friend?
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Tips on how to tell if your dog is overweight
* Can the ribs be easily felt with slight fat cover, or are they difficult to feel under moderate or thick fat cover?
* From the side view, do you see an abdominal tuck?
* Is there thickening at the tail base?
* From the overhead view, is there a well-proportioned waist?
* Or, from the overhead view, does she have a marked hourglass shape? (an indicator of being underweight)
* Or, from the overhead view, is the back slightly or markedly broadened at the waist? (indicators of being moderately to severely overweight)
* Is your dog slow to rise or move around?
* Is she reluctant to exercise, or does she tire easily with activity?
Of course, this doesn't mean that you must measure and weigh every meal you prepare. Once you do it a few times, you'll get the hang of it.
The ideal solution, once you've determined your dog's caloric needs, is to prepare meals at home. This gives you total control of the nutritional side and the caloric side of the content.
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Common Pet Food Allergy Culprits
There are many ingredients in pet food that are likely to cause food allergies. The most common, in order, are beef, dairy products, chicken, wheat, chicken eggs, corn, and soy. Do those look like familiar ingredients? They should because they are the most common ingredients put in dog foods.To combat this, pet food companies started producing a diet made of lamb and rice. Of course, there's nothing special about lamb and rice diets except that they were not normally present in pet foods. Animals had not developed an allergy to it, yet.
So, if the main ingredient used was lamb and rice, then it would be reasonable to say that the most common problem foods could become lamb and rice. The structure and size of the glycoprotein, a complex protein in which the non-protein part is a carbohydrate, determines whether a food is likely to cause a food allergy. Many lamb and rice foods contain other ingredients, should the animal have a food allergy to any of the other ingredients then the lamb and rice will do nothing to help the allergy.
Preservatives and flavorings have been blamed as a cause of food allergies. There have been studies that have shown that they are not the causes. Preservatives should not cause concerns about health as food allergies have not been linked to them.
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"Months ago, my three dogs all went into kidney failure: although I cannot prove it, I suspect it was something they ate. At the same time they were hospitalized, at least four other young and healthy dogs from our area suddenly died. My research told me the common denominator was their commercialized diet. When I finally brought my dogs home, I knew I had to do something to get them to eat and to insure the quality of their food. I also had to worry about the kidney damage they had suffered.
Since then, I've done some reading. As a a result, I've discovered most commercial dog food is a toxic blend of euthanized cats and dogs, diseased livestock, roadkill, artificial flavorings and preservatives. No wonder our dogs suffer from allergies, seizures, cancers...we're poisoning them! Have you ever noticed the strange fact that dog waste can sit in a yard for weeks or even months without breaking down? Now that my dogs eat homemade food, this is no longer the case, as they are no longer being plied with preservatives.
This book is great. My dogs have never been happier or healthier. They no longer beg for table scraps. Their coats are shinier and their teeth cleaner. One of my dogs, a Pomeranian, had his coat trimmed short several years ago, and it never really came back in. Now, as a result of his homemade diet, it is once again lush and beautiful. Another dog, a bichon/poodle mix, had problems with skin allergies. All symptoms have disappeared. My Yorkie used to suffer from a nervous stomach; I no longer worry about coming home to an unpleasant mess.
I highly recommend this book: for the price of a squeaky toy, you'll have a guide to feeding your dog that's loaded with great and easy recipes."
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Healthy Homemade Dog Food Recipes
Peanut Butter Cookies2 ½ cups whole wheat flour
¼ cup white flour
¼ cup oatmeal
1¼Tbsp baking powder
1 Tbsp honey
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup milk
Combine flour, oatmeal, and baking powder. Combine milk, peanut butter, and honey in a separate bowl and mix well. Stir peanut butter mixture into flour/oatmeal mixture. Knead dough and roll-out on floured surface to a quarter inch thickness. Cut out treats using a cookie cutter. Place aluminum foil on cookie sheet and bake in a 400 degree oven for approximately 15 minutes.
Garlic Wheat Patties
3 Jars Baby Food - (1 carrot, 2 meat)
1/3 cup Wheat Germ
1/4 cup powdered milk
½ tsp garlic powder
Mix ingredients well and then press into small "patties". Bake in 350 oven for about 15 minutes.
When you make it yourself, you know what goes into it. When cooking for your dog, always remember that chocolate and onions are dangerous for dogs to eat.
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Dog food is food intended for consumption by dogs or other canine. Special types of dog food, given as a reward, and not as a staple, are known as dog treats.
Some people make their own dog food, feed their dogs meals made from ingredients purchased in grocery or health-food stores or give their dogs a raw food diet. Many others rely on commercially manufactured dog food.
There are varying opinions on what type of diet is best for dogs. Some argue that dogs have thrived on leftovers and scraps from their owners for thousands of years and that commercial dog foods (which have only been available for the past century) contain poor-quality meats, additives, and other ingredients dogs should not ingest. Some maintain that commercial dog food is not nutritionally sufficient.
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