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| Logical and sensible feeding of the dogs |
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- Tin food and various kind of fodder are not recommendable as sole food for the dogs. Why not? Because any preservation process as well as the storage lowers quality and vitality of the food. Preservation always replaces something, which here would be fresh food. Fresh food obviously is always the best option for dogs, particularly for young dogs during growth. Dogs often do not adapt quite well to certain food makes, i.e. they literally jump on the food and enjoy eating it at all times, because of the chemical attractant. Unfortunately those attractants lead to an inability of the dogs to notice their natural sense of saturation, meaning that the dogs usually do not notice if their stomach is full up and they should stop eating. As a result they put on weight very quickly. Some dogs luckily resent the tin food all of a sudden and refuse to touch it. Others become addicted and slowly but steady achieve skin diseases and ear problems amongst others, which the still healthy organism uses to get rid of the relevant toxins.
- An exclusive feeding of fresh food is also not recommendable. Although the dogs adapt to this feeding very well or tolerate this way of feeding but there is a reason to mother nature’s creating a carnivore denture and a short carnivore bowel for the dogs, quite contrary to the long herbivore bowel.
- There has been a lot of lecture about the dog feeding, indicating various opinions and feeding advises. We do not want to add to this collection but simply point out that a lot of dogs, that were prescribed a purification cure adapted well to the diet and being continuously being fed this way became very old, did not suffer any further severe illness and therefore did not have to see a veterinarian very often. This clearly speaks for a harmonic consistence of the diet:
- 1 portion raw meat
- 1 portion cereals
- 2 portion vegetables
- The dogs mostly were at their prime of life and particularly for the second half of their lives this diet is fantastic food.
- Generally the following formula is practised:
- Young dog (up to 18 months): 2 portions of meat, 1portion vegetables – cereals.
- Adult dog: 1 portion meat, 2 portions cereals – vegetables.
- Old dog (as of 7 years): 1 portion meat, 1 portion cereals, 2 portions vegetables.
- This recommendation is for those dogs, that are not so-called working dogs, such as hunters or police dogs, but those leading an ordinary dog’s life. One should bear in mind that old dogs often lose the ability to catabolise the protein properly until the very last stage of catabolism. The last stage is the urea, which easily passes the kidneys. Prior to this stage is the uric acid, which hardly passes the kidneys and due to age or other causes the protein catabolism mostly remains on this stage. Uric acid is then deposited in muscles and other organs, which might lead to resulting sickness. At first and quite visible, a lump forms because of a deposition within the loin muscles and putting only light pressure on it does cause the dog pain. Affected dogs immediately sit down when touched at those spots and they do not jump about as happy and agile as they used to and they start refusing to climb steps.
- (Uric Acid Diathesis)
- Therefore, reducing the meat portion always is life prolonging. Protein can always easily be completed with milk produce (protein from a living animal) such as low fat curd cheese and yoghurt, which are also nourishing but probably easier compatible. The same applies for eggs.
- Those, who are not willing to feed their dogs by regulations or a certain pattern, and those who do not think much of tin food and fodder, will continue to feed their dogs they way they were fed over the past centuries: the human beings share their own food.
- If those dishes vary and were not too spicy, this food is well compatible – despite the advertising of the animal food industry.
- (In extracts from Dr. Wolf, Frankfurt)
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