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Feeding Your Dog Table Scraps
from:Until about 20 years ago most dogs could still eke out a living on table scraps. With the advent of modern merchandising methods, both the quality and the quantity of the usable scraps has declined. Meats are sold already trimmed and boned, carefully wrapped in cellophane and cardboard, and ready for cooking without additional alterations. Frozen foods have eliminated trimmings from vegetables, and dairy and poultry products come from cartons and coolers, not cows and chickens. Everything is prepackaged in convenient quantities so that purchases can be adjusted to family appetites with almost no leftovers.
The scraps from a meal made from these pre trimmed, pre battered, pre buttered, pre cooked, and pre packaged foods consists of only bits and pieces which are either inedible or unwanted by human beings. Such bits and pieces make neither a balanced nor an adequate diet for a dog.
The true value of today's table scraps are succinctly brought home when the dog owner who feeds his dog table scraps asks himself, ''What would I do with these scraps if I didn't own a dog?" lf his answer would be to save them in the refrigerator for his own next meal then a dog can probably eat the scraps, too. However, If he would throw the scraps into the garbage can, then he is literally feeding his dog garbage when he feeds table scraps.
There is an even greater danger in table scraps. In spite of their poor nutritional quality, table scraps frequently are quite palatable to a dog. All too often such table scraps are used with the idea of increasing the palatability of a less palatable, but better balanced, commercial food. Unless the scraps are finely chopped and blended with the commercial foods, most dogs will simply pick out the table scraps and leave the balanced food behind.
Most table scraps are fats and carbohydrates, yielding lots of calories and little else. As a consequence, the dog obtains a sizable portion of its daily caloric need from the useless scraps and loses his appetite entirely for the commercial food. By refusing to put table scraps on the food, a dog owner may feel he is forcing his dog to eat a food it does not want. But, in the long run, most dog owners will agree that it is better to starve a dog with concern than to kill it with kindness.
Energy Sources
Originally, dog owners who fed their pets natural ingredients were attempting to replace the natural diet of the dog Natural ingredients used today are no longer the foods eaten by an animal and#39;and#39;naturallyand#39;and#39; in the wild, but have become modifications of those original foodstuffs to more confinement or longer lasting forms The human diet consists of a large selection of such modified natural .....More on Vegetarian Dog Nutrition
How To Feed A Guard Dog
Most dogs used as guard dogs are German Shepherds, with an occasional Doberman Pinscher, Boxer, or Labrador Retriever The average weight of an adult male guard dog is about 70 pounds None should weigh less than 50 pounds To satisfactorily provide a guard dog with adequate amounts of energy and nutrients every day, its food should have the following three characteristics: 1) It should contai.....More on Vegetarian Dog Nutrition
Dog Anorexia
When a dog refuses to eat or eats only a portion of what he needs or what he usually eats every day, this will also produce a deficiency The term Anorexia is used to describe the condition when a dog refuses to eat Many dog owners take their dogand#39;s eating for granted until the dog actually stops eating A dogand#39;s eating habits are normally controlled by hunger, appetite, and the satisfaction of .....More on Vegetarian Dog Nutrition
Animal Fats Carbohydrates For Dogs
Animal Fats: While most animal fats contain just as many calories as vegetable oils, only two contain essential fatty acids in amounts sufficient to supply a dogand#39;s needs These are the fat of the pig, commonly called lard, and horse fat The tallow of beef and mutton should never be used as the sole source of energy for a dog because of their low content of essential fatty acids Animal fats con.....More on Vegetarian Dog Nutrition
5 Common Natural Food Sources For Dogs
Eggs: Eggs for feeding dogs can be bought by the dozen in the grocery store, by the hundreds from hatcheries or by the thousands from egg ranches Regardless of how many or where they are obtained, an egg should never be fed to a dog raw Raw egg whites react with the vitamin, biotin, and prevent a dog from using it In fact, feeding raw egg whites is the exact way scientists produce experime.....More on Vegetarian Dog Nutrition
Feeding Your Puppy
A puppy always tells his dog owner whether he is getting too much or too little food in several ways Crying is one of the most often recognized, but least likely to be always accurate Although hungry puppies do cry, so do cold puppies, hot puppies, puppies that were disturbed from a nap, lost puppies, sad puppies, etc Crying is simply natureand#39;s way of giving a puppy a means of telling everybo.....More on Vegetarian Dog Nutrition
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