From the dogs mouth (so to speak)

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From the dogs mouth (so to speak) was Originally Posted on August 14, 2012 by

A true story just told to us today.

A woman bought a dog from my friend, the breeder. The woman was feeding raw food to the puppy for a while but got talked into dry dog food. Soon the dog got hotspots and started scratching and clumps of fur came out. The woman went to the Vet, who suggested a better dry dog food. Then when that didn’t help, suggested a premium dog food, which he also sold her. When that didn’t help, he gave the dog Prednisone for the allergy.

When that did not cure the problem the woman took the dog to a different Vet. That Vet did the same thing, suggested premium dog food and then Prednisone.

The whole time the husband kept saying to call the breeder. The woman responded that all the breeder was going to tell her was to put the dog back on raw meat and bones.

Well, after thousands of dollars of vet bills tghe woman called the breeder. The breeder said come on over. The woman came and got (drum roll) raw meat and started the puppy back on a raw meat diet. In a couple of days (bigger drum roll – but you know what is coming) the dog began to get better and the hotspoots went away and it stopped scratching.

The woman is now convinced and is going to try to get a refund of money from the Vets who refused to believe that their dry grain based cereal with meat juice drizzled over it, caused the problem.

I defy you to show me one Veternarian College that has not received hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions of dollars from pet food companies! Under Freedom Of Information Act requests it turns out that pet food companies actully pay for or teach nutrition courses at some of these schools! How inappropriate is that?

Dogs are essentually domesticated wolves. Have you ever seen a wolf chomping down on a stalk of corn or eating up a wheat field? NO! They kill an animal and eat most of it.

If you have a dog or cat, give it meat and some bones to chew on. RAW BONES, not cooked bones. Try some beef heart or liver or tripe. get a soup bone (shank) with meat or a beef neck bone with lots of nooks and crannies. That will keep your dog happy and busy and will help clean its teeth too. I am not sure why people buy something that is manufactured and may have bone in its name, and looks like a bone and maybe tastes like a bone, when they could just go buy a bone! Also, a plastic thing that looks like a bone or a biscuit that is shaped like a bone ARE NOT BONES!

If your dog swallows the bone, all the better. Their stomach acid will dissolve it and add calcium to the diet! BONUS!

I personally would walk away from any Vet who told me that dry dog food is the answer to any question except “What should I NOT feed my dog?”

Wikipedia sayss the following:

Canned horse meat was introduced in the United States under the Ken-L-Ration brand after WWI as a means to dispose of deceased horses. The 1930s saw the introduction of canned cat food and dry meat-meal dog food by the Gaines Food Co. By the time WWII ended, pet food sales had reached $200 million. In the 1950s Spratt’s became part of General Mills. For companies such as Nabisco, Quaker Oats, and General Foods, pet food represented an opportunity to market by-products as a profitable source of income.

Note the names of the cereal companies…

Then they state this disturbing fact:

According to the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO), animal by-products in pet food may include parts obtained from any animals which have died from sickness or disease provided they are rendered in accordance to law. As well, cow brains and spinal cords, not allowed for human consumption under federal regulation 21CFR589.2000 due to the possibility of transmission of BSE, are allowed to be included in pet food intended for nonruminant animals.[21] In 2003, the AVMA speculated changes might be made to animal feed regulations to ban materials from “4-D” animals – those who enter the food chain as dead, dying, diseased or disabled.

My dogs are fed USDA inspected, hormone-free, local beef which is slaughtered a day or two before I get it. It is the exact same meat sent to our resorts, local supermarkets and served by the Kona Hospital. The chicken is purchased at Safeway or COSTCO and is the exact same that other people are cooking for themselves.

Dogs’ digestive tracts are much different from humans and they are not bothered by some of the diseases that humans are.

So when you think about your pet and dinnertime, consider trying some raw meat.