Feed your dog raw food
Since million of years the entire metabolic process of dogs adjusts to raw food. Teeth, saliva, digestive tract, microbial flora, inner organs, and intestines are developed to breakdown, digest, and absorb raw food and raw bones.
Free-living dogs and wolves follow well-defined rules when eating their prey. They consume the parts of their prey with a systematic pattern:
After opening the prey’s abdomen, dogs eat the gut contents first. The gut contents as stomach, intestines and colon, are full of semi digested plant and grain material and provide essential metabolic components. Dogs and wolves eat this “mush” of plant matter quite greedily. It has the same significance as a lottery jackpot to us. (Now you know, why your dog eats poop).
Next, they eat the inner organs (offal). Inner organs, like heart, stomach, or spleen are rich in vitamins, minerals, and trace elements.
Finally and slowly, dogs and wolves consume the remainder as muscle meat and bones. This may take several days. If the prey is too large, they bury the glut to eat it later.
What does all this mean to us?
The process of cooking food is unique to humans only. Animals eat only raw food. No other species whether fishes, birds, or other mammals would ever cook their food! Cooking destroys the natural enzymes, vitamins, essential fatty acids, amino acids, and proteins in the food. It creates rendering components unavailable for absorption from the gut.
Cooked, artificial processed dry and canned dog food causes deficiencies and results in a decreased immune system.
A very healthy dog can maintain commercial dry or canned foods for about 2-5 years. Latest at this age, signs of deficiency become obvious.
Hair loss; dull, flaky coat; itchy skin; poor dental health; kidney problems; diabetes; hypothyroidism; listlessness; allergies; or irritable bowel syndrome.
Only by feeding your dog raw foods, you provide natural nutrients that his body can easily digest and absorb.
- Muscle meat, raw knuckle bones, heart, tongue, tribe as protein source
- White oats, red rice, or potatoes for carbohydrate supply
- Plenty of raw ground vegetables as parsley, celery, carrots, garlic, avocado, paprika, alfalfa
With those ingredients, you provide your dog a balanced, nutritional diet equivalent to the gut contents of prey.
You can refine this raw food with some additives as evening primrose oil, egg yolk, kelp, yogurt, or few drops apple cider vinegar for a shiny coat and overall good health. Powdered barley grass as roughage will keep his intestine clean from bacteria.
Using apple, banana, papaya, or watermelon as treat or reward works excellent. Improvise and find out what your dog likes. It is so easy to keep him healthy!
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