DIET RELATED.
This email deserves to be put up in several places, if this stuff works for other dogs as it is said to have worked for these everyone should know about it.
excuse my spelling & punctuation! have u ever herd of seatone stabilised
mussel extract?this stuff works?on older dogs .i live in darwin .my friend
has a 13 year old rottyxboxer 2 years ago she was going down hill stiff sore
didnt want 2 do much.didnt like going out 4 walks with her younger dog mates
.took her 2 the vets he gave her 6 months.the same dog after costant 2 years
of using them is still old and frail? she jumps in n out of the ute!walks
even runs slowly.wags her tail and looks great. these r my observations i
use these myself they help with aches n pains.another mates gota old silky
cross it damage a leg simalar thing it still lives and moves well both these
dogs dont seem 2 have any side effects{apart from mild shits if they have 2
much got 2 be whatched}hope this helps someone i found this stuff in the
local chemist 18 bucks 4 100?
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Before deciding on what diet may be good for you and Rover first consider what good is in the diet!
(take a look at the above link as well, I do not know how true it all is but sure is scary stuff)
Many sources will tell you our vegetables are now lacking in both minerals and vitamins, if you read up on Bio Dynamics you will find the reasons for this can be more than just depleted soils, soils get depleted from ill-use, and vegetables pumped up with artificial fertilisers and water do not contain the good they used to (nor the taste) these days we must also be wary of genetically modified and or irradiated stuff, this can not be healthy in my opinion.
Soy products are often considered necessary as a part of some diets, do some research on that too before feeding it to your dog or self, in large quantities it can be harmful rather than healthy as you may think.
Meat products may have been fed on growth promotants which many feel are then passed onto those who eat the meat, this is not good, animals who grow too fast and get too large for their type seldom live long lives, slow growth is far better for dog and man. Although the industry often denies it, the rumours persist that pork and chickens are fed constantly of anti biotics which we than cop a dose of when we or our pets eat them, it would not at all surprise me if this is not true. Hopefully we have learnt from England's lesson and do not feed meat and bone meal to our feedlot cattle, although some of them are said to be fed on crop residue which contains a cocktail of chemicals, all that may not be true, but I would not put it past some to do it under the lap.
Do not give your dog ham, bacon or corned meat, although I do eat these at times, they are not good food, and contain nitrosamines.
Milk is sterilised and homogenised to such an extent that it is hard to digest and no longer contains the good it did prior to treatment, same goes for most milk products. Some of the smoother processed cheeses contain propylene glycol, a product used to make anti freeze, (guess they will keep you from freezing!
Eggs, are now pale ghosts of things compared to the nice, rich yellow eggs of free ranging hens, may also contain traces of anti biotics and chemicals fed to the hens.
Fruit and veg imported from other countries may have been sprayed with DDT or near as bad, may also have been fertilised with raw septic waste, there was a documentary on this on TV not long ago, I missed it but heard enough to give me the horrors, and if you feel our quarantine or other Gvt. departments would not let such things in to our country think again and do a bit more checking. Big business and money rules, not common sense.
Even our own produce is sprayed with things said by bio Dynamics experts to be harmful to us.
Sea food is good, but be sure to research and find out where it came from, even our own sea food may be suspect if it is caught near a city, let alone imported prawns grown in farms in a polluted canal into which pours sewage!
All of the above plus the general chemicals we get a daily dose of as we use our household products or drive our cars on congested highways or jog, God help us,beside roads getting a good lungful of exhaust fumes are the reason we have a spiralling cancer rate which also spills over to our pets.
So, if you, as most do, already know that a good diet should consist of fruit and veg. and dairy and meat and poultry and fish ect. and now also go off and do some research on WHERE your above mentioned food comes from and also on HOW it has been processed and grown, you will be better armed to search for and buy the healthiest food available in your area.
Try to buy locally grown at least, then you will know it has not been sitting in cold storage for up to a year, as some of our fruit and veg have. Also less likely to be Genetically modified or to have been irradiated for longer shelf life.
Grass fed beef and mutton are grown mostly in the outback and contain little if any chemical residue, they roam and live a natural life and eat what sheep and cattle are meant to eat, grass.
Organic chooks may cost a bit more, but if you can get them, they too at least have not been fed on chemicals which then get passed on to you, ditto for pork.
Free range eggs can be obtained from many super markets.
Milk is a bit harder, guess you can do with a minimum of it unless you can run a cow or goat!
For your dog roo meat is chemical free and fat free, (depending on how it is packaged) as he does need some fat in his diet his will need some mutton or beef too, most goat meat, if you can get it, is good as well, though also pretty lean.
There are some dedicated BARF (Bones and raw food) sites which you may like to join, just Google BARF, but do be aware of pitfalls even then, as well as the ones I mention above, it pays to know what parasites or other harmful things reside near your food source, some of these pests can be killed by freezing (meat) but not all.
I do not recommend going over-board on these diets, use common sense and think of what your dog was meant to eat prior to mans interference, mostly meat, raw to be true,but that does not mean if you have, in your area, things which may infest the meat that you should not take necessary steps to kill those things before you feed it to your dog. Wild dogs are known to eat the odd berry or bit of wild fruit, and certainly ate the guts and contents, of grass and an occasional seed eating kill. Eggs from ground laying birds would have been eaten, and less often, but when water holes were dry or shallow, no doubt some fish, and a yabby or three.
USA has stopped, or is about to stop making the non-stick gunge which covers so many of our cooking utensils today, it is said to contain carcinogens, so do not use non-stick utensils.
It may also interest you to know, that, given a choice, birds will NOT eat seed which has been micro-waved for even a couple of seconds. I would not go over using the micro-wave oven either.
This is an American site but the situation is much the same here, do take the time to visit these two sites, it may save your dog's life.
http://www.rawlearning.com/rawfaq.html
Also a good site to browse.
A good diet means fewer visits to the vet.
