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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.
4 Important Tips When Feeding Your Dog
Rule 1: A dog should be fed by the same person at every feeding This rule is not nearly as important where a couple of house pets are being fed by several members of the same family, as it is where large numbers of dogs are being fed by numerous different kennel personnel It is particularly applicable where dogs are in strange environments such as boarding kennels, veterinary hospitals, or sho.....More on Feed That Dog A Complete Guide To 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 Feed That Dog A Complete Guide To Dog Nutrition
Is Your Dog Malnourished
Once upon a time the poorest fed dog in America was the farm dog left to fend for itself for food These dogs, undernourished bags of bones, were once so common they almost became symbolic of impoverished rural America Today vast numbers of those small farms have vanished With them have gone the gaunt, hollow eyed hounds that greeted every farm visitor with a hungry, ill tempered bark T.....More on Feed That Dog A Complete Guide To Dog Nutrition
Can I Feed My Dog Meat Only
There are a few dog feeders who foolishly insist that meat is the only thing a dog should ever be fed Meat alone is entirely inadequate for a dog The foremost deficiency in a diet of meat is its lack of calcium lf the meat is trimmed of fat there is also likely to occur a deficiency in energy There are numerous other deficiencies, but none as dramatic as these two Meat, nevertheless,.....More on Feed That Dog A Complete Guide To Dog Nutrition
Nutritional Diseases In Your Dog
Similar to healthy dogs, sick dogs need to eat in order to supply energy and nutrients for growth, for replacement and repair; as well as to meet an ever changing need Nutritional requirements for a sick dog usually do not differ greatly from those of a healthy dog A sick dogand#39;s dietary needs, however, can become substantially different from those of a healthy dog Diseases in which a dogand#39;.....More on Feed That Dog A Complete Guide To Dog Nutrition
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