Choosing between commercial dog food and a home made raw diet

by Barbara on October 30, 2010

in Dog Food Nutrients,Raw Dog Food

To ensure the best nutrition for your dog, put him on a raw dog food diet. However, you do need to know what you’re doing – dogs are not a special kind of furry humans. Their needs, digestive system and metabolism are different than ours.

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In a raw food dog diet, food is fed in its natural state, allowing it
to provide the correct nutrients your dog needs
. It can be (if done right) a great diet for growing dogs (puppies) and dogs that need to maintain good
health (adult dogs, pregnant dogs, older dogs, dogs with diseases.)
When fed in proper portions, raw food will give your dog the best
diet it could possibly have. This means it will be healthier for
longer.

A raw dog food diet which contains the proper nutrients for your dog should be comprised of raw meats, raw meaty bones, vegetables, and fruit. Raw meats provide protein, which is important for a dog’s health and immune system. Raw meaty bones, on the other hand, provide calcium and phosphorous, which growing dogs need to help their bones develop and pregnant dogs need in order to help their
developing pups build strong bones.

The nutrients and vitamins your dog derives from vegetables include Vitamins A, B, C, and K. These vitamins help your dog’s sensory
organs – eye sight is one example. Apart from this, however, a raw
dog food diet which contains vegetables helps your dog digestion
by providing it with lots of fiber.

Fiber helps clean out your dog’s system by ensuring regular bowel
movement
. This is good because toxins are flushed out of your dog’s
body regularly, and it also prepares your dog’s system for optimal
digestion of the future foods it will ingest.

Two other foods that you should include in your raw dog food diet
are fruit and liver
. Fruit pumps your dog with lots of vitamin C
which will help keep their immune system up. They also contain
anti-oxidants, which will help your dog fight off free radicals
which can cause cancer and aging. Berries are particularly good
sources of anti-oxidants.

Liver, on the other hand, gives your dog essential nutrients like
iron, omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, and vitamin B12, all of which your
dog needs to maintain its strength, and keep it’s body lean.

The raw dog food diet provides your dog with all the vitamins and
minerals it needs at each stage of life. In fact, when fed in the right proportions, you won’t need to give your dogs vitamin
supplements.

But how do you determine how much of each type of food to feed your dog? How can you tell if your dog is indeed getting all the nutrients it needs? Are there signs that can confirm if your dog is thriving on a raw food diet? That’s the detailed information you’ll learn from Maggie Rhiner.

Maggie wrote a new book called“Going RAWR! Dog Lovers Compendium”. Find a complete list of the vitamins and minerals your dog needs, and learn how to spot deficiencies. This book also discusses the dog food pyramid, and tells you how much of each type of food to meet the various needs of growing and grown puppies, as well as big dogs and small dogs alike.

Read more about this book by clicking on this link, which will bring
you to Maggie’s website.

Learn more about raw dog food at Best Dog Food Guide »

Busy days, lazy or just not in the mood to ‘cook’?

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