For Dog Only

Currently, many of you who have followed my writings know that I am the dog Hot Springs (I love cats too), but I tendency to adopt stray dogs. I adopt the cats, but most Indians are and remain untouchable so I leave food for them.

You May (or may not) have heard of my dogs twenty years "Thor" and how it became to stay as healthy for so long. Otherwise, I will not go into details because I do not want to be repetitive, but will simply say that he almost died several times along the way, I know Now, after talking to many holistic veterinarians, because processed food for dogs. This has been for many years before "fear".

Over the past eight years he has been on the barf diet (bones and raw food) and yet, I will not in the details of the scheme (except that it is all raw meat for human quality fruits and vegetables bones (and dyes made from plants). To More information about this, Google has simply feeding barf. It works great for dogs and cats too. Thor is to reach Finally, the age where he knows a little about health issues (at an age when most dogs who eat processed foods at the age six to ten.

I am angry that more nutrition is not taught in veterinary school. But I read in several veterinary journals and was not surprised to see, for example, there is no minimum nutritional requirement for grains of any kind for dogs or cats. But look at processed foods. It is loaded with them, even the "maintenance of socially acceptable cost" even whether products containing meat or meat by the main base.

A vet told me: "But dogs with choke bone ... Some dogs are dead. "

This is true.

But hundreds of thousands of dogs less (even taking into account the percentages that dog What is fed) died from choking on kibble that raw bones. Thor ate raw chicken bones (wings are his favorites for 7 years). Not a problem. But never give a dog cooked bones, no chicken, no beef, no ribs. Cooking changes the molecular structure makes bones brittle. Thor ate raw bones of all types chicken rabbit for ten years without a single incident (not much less A VET BILL!)

Let's face it. Sixty years ago, there was no such thing as "dog food". People fed that their pet has been left on the table, raw food gardens, etc. The disease catastrophic that we know today began simultaneously processed dog food was introduced on the market.

Some A few months ago I flew to Charlotte, North Carolina on business and to see friends. I was talking to a young woman before takeoff, seated next to I had two yellow labs. Both were constantly ill. I told him about the BARF diet and how most veterinarians do not speak, because they are educated by the sellers of the dog food industry.

A woman in front of us turned around abruptly and said: "Sorry interrupt you. I am a veterinarian in Sterling, Va., a alopathic one. But I know how everyone on the BARF diet and I do not recommend feeding a dog or cat foods. "

I was shocked. I asked: "How can you make a living, then with so few animals sick? She said she works on word of mouth, the patient volume. In general, they only come in recent years and is mainly for accidents. I smiled and was immediately instructed. There are some very good veterinary honest out there who really care about their patients, I thought to myself.

(Update) Since I wrote this article, my best friend "Thor" is dead 22. I still visit her
Grave Site. It was such a beautiful presence I can still feel his spirit alive. I'm bored
him greatly.

Rick London is a freelance writer, cartoonist, and e-entrepreneur. He launched Londons Times Cartoons in 1997 which evolved into the largest (8500 cartoons) and most visited (3+ million per year) offbeat cartoon website. He owns ten award-winning Internet gift & collectible stores, one of them has a variety of funny dog cartoon items Rick London Special Edition Gifts

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