The immune system’s strength, in people as well as animals, is affected by the quality of nutrition. A dog’s behavior, happiness, health, longevity and overall well-being are a direct result of the nutrition offered in the daily diet. Each dog has special nutritional needs that vary from animal to animal.
There are several easily noticeable symptoms of nutritionally caused deficiencies: allergies, hot spots, lack of energy, joint problems, arthritis and poor behavior. Nutritional balance is the key to a healthy pet and not giving the dog bad pet food will help with the inflammation of arthritis and other major health problems.
Seems odd that just a few months ago I was blogging about homemade cat toys and condo’s and now I am pursuing the value of commercial cat food. In a past blog I had quoted several veterinarians, that cats did not produce enzymes to digest grains in their feed. Yet almost every can, pouch, or bag lists some type of grain, (wheat, corn, oat, or rice).
Most people don’t give their pets raw food because they believe that it can harm them. Most animals have digestive tracts that are more acidic and shorter than human beings. Since animals have a shorter digestive tract, microbes present in raw food have little time to enter their bloodstream. High acidity levels in animals will also help in killing most bacteria’s that can harm them. However, it is important that you follow the all precautions when you give raw food to animals that you would follow when giving it to human beings.
It would be safe not to play with your dog’s health. As you love your pet and wish for the healthy well-being of your dog, don’t compromise in the food that you are giving to them. It could possibly invite the dangers in your dog’s health. So select the best dog food available in the market and the best one could be Blue Buffalo dog food.
However, it also has to be said that all new pet food recipes have their origin at feeding trials which have been done in the past. The AAFCO nutritional guidelines have been used for years as the base figures for formulating pet food recipes, and you or I could probably put together a fine quality pet food based upon those guidelines – but we have to bear in mind that these were established through nutritional feeding trials, and have been amended no doubt since based upon current knowledge.
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April 24th, 2011
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