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3 Keys to Unlock
Ultimate Dog Health
How to Create Outstanding Dog Health for Life
Dan Scott
Healthy Dog Publishing
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Table of Contents
Introduction - Our Dogs Health is Everything ........................................................................................... 5
The Three Critical Keys to Unlock Ultimate Dog Health ............................................................................ 6
But Aren’t Dog Ailments a Normal Part of Dog Ownership? ..................................................................... 7
Imagine, What Dog Companionship Can be Like ...................................................................................... 7
Short History of Dogs ............................................................................................................................... 9
12 Dog Diets Ranked From Best to Worst .............................................................................................. 11
Nine Out of Ten Health Problems Are Caused by Diet Alone! ................................................................. 15
The vast majority of canned and kibble dog food is filled with Carbohydrates;....................................... 18
Why Commercial Dog Food Diets Cause Disease.................................................................................... 19
Why Does Cooking Dog Food Make it Harmful? ..................................................................................... 21
Now You Know – Will You Still Change Your Dogs Diet? ......................................................................... 22
Why Is Nature’s Dog Food Still the Best Choice? .................................................................................... 23
What is it About Raw Food That Makes all the Difference? .................................................................... 24
The Vital Role of Diet In Disease Prevention .......................................................................................... 30
Here's a Good Comparison-Your Car ...................................................................................................... 34
What About Dogs, What Do They Have to Do With Cars? ...................................................................... 34
What You Can Do About Your Dog’s Diet - Your Choices? ...................................................................... 35
Important Points to Consider:................................................................................................................ 35
The Bottom Line .................................................................................................................................... 36
Final Thoughts ....................................................................................................................................... 38
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Introduction - Our Dogs Health is Everything
The similarity in overall
behavioral patterns between dogs
and human beings has earned
them the nickname ‘man’s best
friend’.
The loyalty and devotion of our
dogs resembles the human idea
of love and affection to such a
great extent that like me, you
probably view your dog as a
family member.
Like any other family member,
dogs get sick too, and deserve as much of your attention and care, as does any
other family member. Dogs are vulnerable to the same illnesses as human beings
including diabetes, epilepsy, cancer, heart disease, and arthritis as well as their
own dog specific diseases.
Some of the common health complaints that you can come across in your pet dog
are the presence of parasites like fleas, ticks, and mites and ailments like ear
infections, diarrhea, allergies, tooth & gum problems and impacted anal glands.
Obviously, the first reaction on seeing abnormal symptoms is to approach a
veterinarian which often leads to medications, prescriptions foods and bills. And
perhaps you’re even facing the prospect of surgery when a chronic condition has
gone unseen for so long.
More usually you have to contemplate expensive drugs that you’re not even aware
the side effects and toxicity of and vet prescribed specialty foods which most often
do not make the difference you’d hoped for. Just more money wasted on temporary
measures and your dog still has health problems.
So how can you help your family pet to optimum lifelong health, prevent as many
as 9 out of 10 of today’s dog health problems and do it naturally, without
unnecessary toxic drugs, expensive prescription food, surgery, mounting bills or
worry?
In short this report helps you to discover how to have a long lived, low
maintenance always healthy dog and the peace of mind that comes with it.
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The Three Critical Keys to Unlock Ultimate Dog Health
Prevention is the answer to great dog health. You can prevent poor health and have
your dog live longer by being proactive. This way, you head off potential illness
before it happens. This is far better than reacting to chronic disease that’s built up
over time because you and your dog are left with multiple problems, high vet costs
and worry.
Every day I receive questions from concerned dog owners. Their suffering dog has
several problems to deal with at once and they just don’t know where to turn when
vets, drugs and various diet choices have not improved their dog’s health. In fact, it
generally complicates an already out-of-control condition, and their dog’s health is
worse than ever.
By focusing on the three keys below you avoid that heart stopping moment when
your vet tells you the health check results are ‘serious’ when all you want to hear is
‘your dog is in perfect health’.
The three keys to unlock ultimate dog health for life are:
Key 1- Diet – This means providing a diet that is most closely aligned to
your dog’s biology for greatest health, wellbeing and longevity.
KEY 2 - Immune System – This is your dog’s internal defense
mechanism and it must be maintained in good working order. It acts much
like having computer Anti-Virus protection that constantly monitors your
computer. Any viral intruders that do get in are quickly discovered and removed.
Your dog’s immune system acts in the same way, keeping your dog protected and
healthy.
Key 3 - Physical and Mental Wellbeing – Your dog’s body and mind
must work optimally. This includes their muscle tone and ideal weight,
organ condition such as liver, kidneys, pancreas and heart. Their teeth
must be kept clean as unseen germs are easily introduced through tartar build-up,
which quickly leads to gum disease. A dog in great health from good diet – Key 1
and a strong immune system – Key 2; has mental clarity, is happy and balanced in
their moods and behavior.
By using the three keys to unlock ultimate dog health for life, your dog will excel in
life, be super healthy, live longer and have a balanced stress free state of mind. No
more pesky ailments, costs you can live with, a clean fresh smelling dog and best of
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all, a dog that is thriving not simply surviving. How comforted would that make you
feel?
“Always keep in mind the three keys as you move through this report.”
But Aren’t Dog Ailments a Normal Part of Dog Ownership?
What you may not be aware of, is that there are other options in the way we look
after our dogs that can mean very different outcomes to the perceived norm of
“dog ailments come with the territory” thinking.
The common perception is that dogs are old, getting tired, slowing down and grey
muzzled or generally seen as senior citizens by the time they reach 10 years old. At
this stage we generally think they have perhaps only 2 to 4 years of life left; any
more is a welcome bonus. We fully expect to have to deal with higher levels of
chronic disease, infirmity, veterinary involvement, drugs, special diets, costs and
some sleepless nights.
What if I told you there was a safer, more predictable way of looking at dog
ownership. And with it, a life of complete health and less need for veterinary
involvement. You have much lower overall costs; your dog is exposed to far less
drugs, has less infirmity, less chronic disease and lives on average one third longer
than the current national average of 10 to 13 years.
And you get to cut your yearly dog bills by up to 85% (As researched by an
Australian study on 126 dogs monitored over twelve months).
Would that be something you’d like to know about?
Imagine, What Dog Companionship Can be Like
Imagine for a moment that you knew nothing about dogs, how long they live,
what they eat etc, you don’t have one, you simply just want one.
Remember: You are imagining this…
You are looking forward to your new arrival - that gorgeous little 8 week old puppy
you’ve been so excited about or the shelter dog you decided to rescue is finally
coming home.
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This new dog of yours is small; let’s say she’s a Westie or a Bichon. You have been
told that with good care and diet she will probably reach an age of around 18 to 20
years of age, perhaps more. She will be in great shape with youthful vigor until at
least age 15 to 16.
You should expect only to need veterinary intervention for puppy shots (one time
for life) and health checks every few years. Your new charge does not get ill, has
superb health with a glossy coat, sparkling white teeth, clean clear fresh breath,
squeaky clean ears, lots of energy, gets no diarrhea, has little gas and sheds only
lightly.
She has bullet proof health from a strong immune system and does not cost more
than regular feeding costs should. She practically never needs a vet, drugs or even
washing because she smells like a puppy lifelong.
Essentially she’s a long lived, low maintenance always healthy dog for the best part
of 20 years.
NOW: Do you even think this is possible?
Well the answer is YES.
And it comes down to the first critical key: Key 1- DIET!
And do you know what the best part is?
Unlock your dog’s natural biological diet and the other two keys will automatically
unlock as if by magic. That’s the power of using the right diet.
You see, here’s the exciting part - right under your nose all along is the simple
answer to unlocking the huge health potential locked up in your dog. It’s been there
all along. You aren’t told it’s there by anybody. Actually that’s because it’s not’s
profitable to do so but we’ll get to that later.
For now, all you need to know is that the answer to ultimate dog health and having
your dog live to their late teens from a pup – easily – be low maintenance and
always healthy is down to what they eat.
Use the first key to unlock diet and you automatically unlock powerful
immune system health and create strong physical and mental wellbeing.
This makes dog ownership easier on the pocket, more predictable and safer.
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The first thing to take into account is the ability of food
to either be good for a dog or bad for them.
Food cannot be neutral.
But before I get into why diet plays such an important role in your dogs health,
immune system and mental wellbeing, I want to share with you some important
background on where your dog’s ancestry comes from, and how they - like all dogs
today – became a pet dog because this part is very important.
Your dogs ancestral past and the diet her ancestors ate give us many answers to
what’s the optimal diet for greatest health, wellbeing and longevity. This helps you
to understand your dogs needs better, be better able to help them live healthier,
while cutting your costs and giving you greater peace of mind.
Short History of Dogs
Back along the evolutionary timeline, modern dog’s
ancestors showed up between 15 and 40 million years
ago (depending on whose timeline you use), while we
humans entered the frame around 2 million years ago.
This means dogs have been roaming our world a lot
longer than us.
Dogs have had a very long time to evolve their biological
makeup. And what they eat and how it affects their
digestive system have had a long time to be perfected by
natural selection. This means changes in their dietary
habits have altered very slowly over millions of years.
Our present day dog breeds ALL evolved from their close
relative, the Grey Wolf and with the help of mans creative breeding practices
produced many types of domestic dog, from small fluffy lap dogs to giant breeds.
Humans saw the benefit of keeping dogs and the 15,000 year old relationship
between man and his best friend began in earnest. He saw that perhaps the more
eager gregarious wolf got closer and closer to the camp fire, perhaps to steal a bit
of leftovers and at some point realized the usefulness of these animals as working
dogs.
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Before long what was a wild dog
became domesticated and through
selective breeding led to the modern
dog in all its wonderful shapes and
sizes today.
So the original wolves/dogs are
carnivorous animals that hunt and eat
meat. It is the unquestioned natural
staple of their diets, and has been
since long before mankind set foot in
their territory. By this very definition,
what a wild animal eats can be nothing
other than its natural diet.
Developing through the evolutionary
timeline, a carnivore’s body has been
designed to derive its required
nutrients from the raw food it kills, and
sometimes what it finds as the
remnants of natural death or the leftover scraps of other predators. These truths
are unquestioned, and they have remained unchanged for literally millions of years.
So our modern domestic dogs are natural carnivores. This, too, is an unquestioned
truth. Therefore – again, by definition – if they eat anything other than what for
them is a natural diet, then they are existing in a non-natural state.
Our dogs’ bodies have been designed for one thing where nutrition is concerned,
but when we feed them something else we are departing from what is natural, and
therefore depriving them of their optimal diet.
So we can get a picture of our dog’s ancestral diet and the fact that a raw food diet
is their optimal diet throughout the ages.
But what about in today’s world?
What about the modern, fast paced, convenience led world we live in where food
isn’t picked from trees or dug from the ground? It’s simply picked right off the
supermarket shelf or delivered straight to our door.
Let’s have a look at 12 diets commonly given to dogs today. I will rank them from
best to worst in terms of their optimal nutritional value for dogs.
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12 Dog Diets Ranked From Best to Worst
First - The 3 General Dietary Needs of Dogs
1. High moisture content to prevent organ dysfunction, dehydration and renal failure.
70% on average in any given food for balanced nutritional needs.
2. High quality protein content in line with their ancestral and biological needs.
3. Balanced diet that includes naturally occurring vitamins, minerals and other bio
available nutrients.
Best to Worst Diets to Feed Dogs
No.1-Balanced homemade diet of raw food-is as about as good as it gets for
your dog. Because it’s their natural species
appropriate diet most biologically aligned to
their digestive system.
Dogs thrive on a well balanced raw food diet.
The food is unadulterated, contains a variety
of live enzymes, flavonoids, fatty acids,
naturally occurring vitamins and minerals and
a host of nutrients that are otherwise
destroyed by heat and processing in
commercial pet foods.
You have complete control over the diet, and with the right information you unlock
ultimate dog health.
No.2-Commercial raw food diet-is second and today it’s becoming widely
available in frozen pre-packaged form ready to open and serve, much like its dry
and canned commercial dog food equivalent.
It’s important to buy a good cross section of these prepared foods to achieve an
acceptable nutritional balance.
The internet is still the best place to find a good supply of diverse raw foods. Many
small boutique pet shops are now offering freezer section choices to cover your
needs.
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No.3-Homemade diet of cooked food-is third and still the favorite of many dog
owners. The fact that the food is cooked does destroy many nutrients thereby
diminishing its quality. However, as with the UK’s oldest dog age 22 fed a
homemade cooked food diet, there is still viability to its nutrient profile free of
commercial dog food additives.
No.4-Human grade food in cans-is fourth as the food contained in the can and
stated on the label is of human grade. Generally this food is more expensive and on
par with commercially available raw food in terms of cost.
No.5-Commercial premium canned food-is fifth and widely available through
major supermarkets. Although of better quality than the white label or own brand
offerings, the practice of “co-labeling” often means the same contents in both
expensive and cheaper options are exactly the same, having been canned on the
same Chinese production line using different labels.
No.6-Veterinary endorsed canned food-is sixth and purchased through your
local veterinary practice. Hills Science Diet is the major choice here. Again, the lines
can be blurred with the practice of co-labeling but generally it’s thought to be of
better quality than what comes next.
No.7-Human grade dry food in boxes and packets-is
seventh and contains ingredients suitable for humans.
However the moisture content is low at around 12% and
does not meet basic nutritional adequacy for dogs. Yes it
may say it’s “complete and balanced”… but it’s NOT.
No.8-Veterinary endorsed dry food-is eight and
although your vet’s behind it, they’re selling it for profit,
so ethics aside the nutritional quality is average at best and sub optimal for your
dog’s health.
No.9-Commercial premium dry food-is ninth and contains ingredients of highly
questionable origin, low moisture content, as many as 29 different additives and of
low nutritional value to dogs and cats.
No.10-Deli store no name brand dog food-is tenth and to be avoided at all cost.
In all honesty it’s probably not that much worse than the premium brand labeled
cans. But one thing you can be sure of, it’s unsuitable as optimal nutrition for your
dog.
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No.11-Deli store no name brand dry food-is eleventh and because it’s low in
moisture, of questionable origin and filled with chemical additives, it’s to be
avoided.
No.12-Semi moist food in pouches (including moist treats)-is twelfth and this
one is dangerous to pets – period - as it’s kept in this semi moist condition with
propylene glycol. This preservative is banned in human food and destructive to
dog’s health.
Where’s the cut-off point for nutritional adequacy in the above list?
Having spent 9 years researching the commercial pet food
industry and reading most every book out there on the subject of
pet nutrition, I can say that below No. 3 you’re going to struggle
for reasonably balanced nutrition for your dog.
The BIG reason is that there are NO laws to keep commercial pet food
manufacturers honest.
The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AFFCO) sets guide lines to offer
some consumer protection from malpractice, but are at best – window dressing and at worst, cause the death of millions of pets annually. This is because they
have no power of oversight and are controlled by the dictates of big food and big
agriculture wealth.
The Practice of Co-Labeling
With the practice of running different pet food brands on the same Chinese
production lines and simply labeling up the cans with premium and no name brand
labels, we cannot be sure of what we are getting. The labels themselves are mostly
a work of fiction as again the pet food manufacturers do not have to come clean on
exact contents. Instead they use words with multiple connotations (a bit like
politicians).
So now you can begin to get a picture of modern dog food diets and their
questionable quality - simply because they are not controlled by law as human food
is – and how this can mean low quality food for your dog.
Let’s move on briefly to the actual ingredients in pet food and how labels are
created to disguise the true contents.
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Have you ever really understood what the ingredients label really means?
Example: Here’s a selection of ingredients from one of the world’s top brand dry
dog foods – Do you know exactly what these four ingredients are?
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Poultry by-product meal
Corn gluten meal
Soybean meal
Animal digest
Besides many unrecognizable food ingredients in dog food
there’s also a tongue twisting laundry list of 29 named
synthetic additives dog food manufacturers have to choose
from, to produce colors, preservation, smell, taste,
digestibility etc. So you can be sure that you will never
know what’s in that can or packet.
If your dog has health problems, you can be pretty sure
it’s because of a ‘modern food waste diet’ fortified with chemicals he or she is
consuming.
As the world presses forward with uncertain economic conditions, commercial pet
food will only become more variable in quality with cheaper, less appropriate and
harmful ingredients, underlined by ever increasing pet food recalls.
My Recommendation for Your Dogs Diet:
I highly recommend you feed your dog a homemade raw food diet or a commercial
raw food diet and third, a home cooked food diet. This way you have control over
what your dog eats, which means you know what’s in it and feel safe in the
knowledge that your dog’s health is optimal.
With commercial pet foods, regardless of the marketing messages about content
quality, if it has been cooked, preserved and put in a can or packet, it’s not
biologically optimal for your dog. You can pay premium prices for clever marketing
and fancy labels, but the contents will always be sub-optimal nutrition.
Pet food manufacturers have no laws stopping them from seeking the cheapest, low
quality waste food, dressing it with chemicals and labeling it in ways that you
cannot understand. And with clever adverts, you’re told its 100% complete and
balanced - go figure!
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Nine Out of Ten Health Problems Are Caused by Diet Alone!
Now we know where our modern pet dogs originate from, what the optimal diet for
them to eat is and how the most common ways of feeding your dog stack up
against each other for nutritional adequacy. And in turn, how that helps or hinders
your dogs overall health.
I now want to turn to why and how the diet choices below number 3 on the list
affect your dog’s health, as it’s important to know the consequences attached to
your choices in dog food.
Every single health problem on the list below has a direct connection to the
commercial canned and kibble pet food diet you feed your dog.
There are other considerations like environmental pollution, veterinary drugs,
environmental stress and vaccination induced auto immune disease. But the
overwhelming problem begins with the food your dog consumes each and every day
of their life.
These can be any of the following:
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Cushing’s disease
Internal organ diseases such as cancer, affecting the liver, kidney, bowel,
pancreas, and lungs
Urinary tract infections
Diabetes
Low immunity (via compromised immune system)
Kennel cough (via compromised immune system)
Persistent diarrhea or lose foul smelly stools
Ear infection/ear mites/yeasty build-up
Worm infestations
Itchy skin
Dandruff
Hot spots
Eczema skin in ears or around the body
Dry cracked or runny nose
Jaundice eyes (whites that appear yellow)
Crusty ear tips
Cracked foot pads
Excess shedding
Acne, bumps or cysts on skin
Anal gland blockage (scooting)
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Lacking energy
Halitosis (foul dog breath)
Tartar and Gum disease
Cloudy eye
Persistent allergies
Paw licking
Brittle or greasy coat
Mange
Obesity
Foul gas
Arthritis
Problem behaviors
Potential link to seizures
Diet plays the central role in your dog’s life, yet for most of us, we are not
even aware of just how important it really is.
Why?
Because no one told us the facts as they really stand from an
independent objective driven perspective. What we were told
by adverts, experts or government regulation is only a small
part of the story.
Remember, unlike the food we people eat, there’s very little
government regulation of pet food quality. The USDA doesn’t
control it, nor does the FDA or AAFCO (Association of
American Feed Control Officials).
Not one of these agencies watches over and continually
checks what private pet food manufacturers put in their products.
Because: Pet food is made from “rejected” human food waste which cannot be
certified healthy by any law otherwise the massive profit it produces would vanish.
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The pet food industry is HUGE. It’s owned by the human food industry. They
simply take all the waste from food factories, restaurant chains, supermarket
chains, to feedlot operations, ranches, zoos… even small animal hospitals and road
kill.
In fact anything non animal too, from the mountains of pulp left over from sugar
beet extraction or shells from peanut production, even the feathers from chicken
factories – by the millions of tons – are used as ingredients (remember No.1 above,
Poultry by-product meal).
As you can imagine this HUGE shadow industry is FREE to clean up our world of its
waste and instead of it being destroyed by law is allowed through via “look the
other way guidelines” to be turned into premium pet food for vast profit.
Welcome to the world of pet food as it really is - not the warm, fuzzy, feel
good advertising you see on TV.
This report explains the simple truth, gives you an answer as simple as going back
to a natural diet regime or reducing the synthetic additives that you may have been
giving to your dog in their present diet.
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Stop for one moment and ask
yourself this question:
What did dogs eat before
cans and kibble came along?
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The vast majority of canned and kibble dog food is filled
with Carbohydrates;
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Cereals
Corn meal
Corn
Corn gluten meal
Brewers rice
Soybean meal
Sorghum
Barley
Beet pulp
Brewers yeast
Potatoes
Oatmeal
Dogs have no dietary requirement or need for
carbohydrates. Their liver derives energy directly from
the protein in raw meat and bones. Carbohydrates are
included in the ingredients of processed pet food
because they are a less expensive source of energy than
fat or protein.
The carbohydrate ingredients list above is from a range of canned and dry dog food
products at the higher end of the dog food market. It's important for a dog not to
eat carbohydrates in any quantity as they quickly turn to sugars which create
imbalance in your dogs system that can feed bad bacteria and kill off beneficial
bacteria.
The sludge from packet food forms hard mucus like rubbery film that smothers the
lining of your dog’s digestive tract.
This creates multiple problems:
1. Impairs the dog’s immune system which means it cannot do its job of defending
the body from bacterial and fungal infections.
2. Limits nutrient absorption into the body so the system extracts far less of what
it needs from the food.
3. Creates an unbalanced micro flora environment in the gut which causes upset,
swelling, diarrhea, gas, dehydration, worm infestation and chronic disease like
inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer plus repeated bacterial skin
allergies.
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If you take a look at the label on your dog's can or packet food, you’ll see the
ingredients from the list above. None of the ingredients provide optimal or balanced
nutrition for your dog, despite label claims.
A frequently asked question at HealthyDogForLife.com is:
azure // Feb 16, 2015 at 7:20 pm
“My dog gets gas and diarrhea once every week or so he is
only six months old and I worry about him. He is now eating
royal canin’s gastrointestinal but he gets diarrhea with that
too.
Do you think that a raw diet would eliminate this? I am
desperate as my vet wants to give him prednisone or get a
biopsy.”
This combination of cheap industrial food waste and chemical additives has played
its role in your dog's weakened immune system, including 9 out of 10 health
problems as a direct result of diet.
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Why Commercial Dog Food Diets Cause Disease
The very food we give our pets is what determines how old they live and the quality
of the life they enjoy.
Feed your dog their natural biological diet and your dog generally lives to around 16
to 19 years of age according to my 8 years of research statistics with a much
shorter infirmity period at the end.
Feed your dog a commercially produced cooked diet from a can or packet and their
average age of life expectancy is only 10 to 13 years according to official national
research statistics. And this is combined with an often long painful and costly
infirmity period through the senior years.
When diet is sub-optimal both enzyme health, hormone health and immune
system health are impaired. An added dilemma with commercial artificial diets is
the lack of anti cancer compounds such as naturally occurring antioxidant vitamins.
A huge majority of commercial foods contain toxins that destroy the immune
system and gradually kill your dog as you feed him. Dogs are basically meat eaters.
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Meat-based dog food may appear to be the best to provide the required proportions
of proteins and other substances needed by your dog. Manufacturers, however, use
synthetic additives and preservatives to increase shelf life, which can be
detrimental to the health of your dog.
As stated by Dr. Tom Lonsdale BVet Med, MRCVS “Junk food is laden with colorants, preservatives, humectants
and a raft of other strange chemical additives-none of with any
nutritive value and all toxic to varying degrees…”
It is not only the type of food but also the quantity that makes a difference. The
age, weight and breed of your dog are key aspects that determine the amount of
proteins, carbohydrates and fats that the dog requires every day. The level of
activity is another factor for arriving at the calorie intake.
As much as possible, feed your dog a raw food based diet, one that is natural and
free from toxins. The purpose of a natural diet is to boost the immune system and
help the liver to regenerate its cells so that it can function to its fullest capacity. A
toxin free diet is the key to longevity and a health.
Because the physiology of a dog was never designed to recognize manmade
chemicals, these non nutrients are considered invaders by their immune system.
When a dog is eating a daily diet of commercial dog food, its system easily
becomes overloaded with invaders. Eventually, its immune system becomes unable
to fight off even the most simple of illnesses.
What a dog’s system does recognize is the
live enzymes, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals
and the full range of over 35 proteins and
other nutrients that come in a diet of fresh
raw food.
With no manmade chemicals to batter the
immune system, every nutrient in this diet
can be used efficiently and effectively. In
essence, not only does a diet of raw meat
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and bone work as food, it works as medicine too (an important point not
well understood by dog owners or vets).
A boosted and strong immune system in any dog from a healthy diet prevents
disease. This also protects a dog owner’s pocketbook from costly vet visits,
expensive test procedures and medications.
Just as people who eat a bad diet easily get run down, have low energy and pick up
colds and flu regularly, so dogs existing on a compromised commercial dog food
diet, also easily become over burdened from bad diet and toxins that cause
bacterial and viral infections-a sign of a weak immune system.
It is interesting to observe that the people who know,
the professionals who care for wolves in captivity in
our zoos, don’t feed these animals anything other than
raw meat still on the bone…
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Why Does Cooking Dog Food Make it Harmful?
One of the most unnatural aspects of the way we feed our dogs today is that we
cook the meat they consume. This is true of canned and bagged products, in
addition to other processes, not the least of which is the use of preservatives. The
result of all this cooking is a gradual breakdown of a dog’s natural immune system,
which is vital to their longevity and quality of life.
Why is cooking harmful?
Because the heating process in cooked food alters the molecular structure of the
food. The proteins in raw meat are large, delicate structures that are easily broken
down by heating, greatly reducing their effectiveness as nutrients. The altered
structures of these molecules, as created by the heating process, are unnatural and
difficult to digest.
This unnatural and unrecognized molecular structure is what causes food allergies
in our dogs; they literally cannot digest it properly.
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The immune system kicks in as a response to
the presence of what it senses is an unnatural
substance, and often it overreacts, which throws
off the delicate chemical balance of the entire
digestive tract.
All simply because the meat being eaten has
been cooked, rather than served in what the
digestive tract has been trained for forty million
years to expect, which is a natural state of rawness.
The fact is, cooked food takes longer to digest than raw food, and requires a lot
more of the dog’s energy. Dogs have a limited natural enzyme supply within the
body, a supply which is critical to the digestion process. That process relies on the
consumption of the natural enzymes that are present in raw food to balance
biochemical activity in the body.
The pancreas that produces these enzymes becomes overburdened in coping with
cooked food that has none to offer, leading to biological stress and pressure on the
immune system.
Add to this the long list of artificial additives in non-natural food, and the combined
effects of the heating process, and over time you have long-term degeneration of
DNA, the breakdown of the immune system and eventual disease.
Each and every day your dog eats artificial kibble or highly processed
canned food brings her one step close to an undeniable disaster.
Now You Know – Will You Still Change Your Dogs Diet?
The alternative is well within your grasp as a dog owner. Preparing your own homeprepared food for your dog is simple, no more complex than preparing food for the
kids simpler, in fact, because no cooking is required. Just defrost the meal and
serve.
Why, then, is this not the common practice for dog owners everywhere?
We love our dogs, after all, and if it’s truly that simple it seems logical to assume
that most dog owners would happily make the shift from canned and bagged food
to a more natural diet.
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The answer is ignorance – we, as a culture of dog owners, are simply unaware of
the dark side of serving our pets processed dog food. The consequences of doing so
are not always extreme or visible, because your dog can’t tell you how she feels. So
we develop habits, we yield to convenience and precedence, and thus perpetuate a
downward spiral that contributes to the early death of our dogs and a less than
optimal life experience for them in the meantime.
Why Is Nature’s Dog Food Still the Best Choice?
Nature has a way of providing its creatures
with what they need. With animals that are
not living in a world of veterinarians and
vitamins and disinfectants, protection comes
in the form of natural food. A natural diet is
the foundation of a strong immune system,
which becomes a natural barrier to disease.
Dogs haven’t survived in the wild for millions
of years by luck or by accident, and they’ve
done it without a bag of dog food in sight. It makes sense, then, by returning to a
natural diet we are providing our dogs with nature’s blueprint for their immune
system and the fulfillment of their genetic potential.
The science of human nutrition is all about the immune system, and your dog’s
need for a strong immune system is no less critical to their health and survival. The
cellular chemistry is really very similar – a natural mechanism allows the body to
respond to the presence of toxins, bacteria and infection. When we interfere with
that immune system, which is precisely what messing around with a natural diet
does, we compromise it.
In humans, a diet rich in so-called junk foods is the enemy of a strong immune
system, since it creates an imbalance of sugars and introduces preservatives into
the system. In commercial dog food, manufacturers claim to enrich their products
with antioxidants, the implication of which it helps the animal fight off disease,
especially problems with gums and digestion.
And yet, these two specific areas are the cause of
perhaps millions of domestic canine deaths. This is
heartbreaking, because something as simple and easy as
putting the dog back onto a natural diet, which has
millions of years of successful testing behind it, might be
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all that it takes to reverse these problems.
What is it About Raw Food That Makes all the Difference?
The Pros and Cons of Feeding Your Dog Fresh Food:
The Pros:
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*Average life expectancy if fed from puppy is 16 to 19 (*My personal research over
9 years). Life expectancy for a commercially fed dog is 10 to 13 years according to
combined US, UK, Canada and European research statistics).
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The healing of 9 out of ten health complaints (Amazing what can be fixed up so
quickly through feeding raw food – it’s natures medicine too).
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Your dog is now getting the macro and micro nutrients it needs. This is down to the
cellular level biology your dog was designed to grow and function from consuming a
natural diet.
•
You are protecting yourself from greedy business which has no laws
in the US, to protect you from them, stuffing crude derivative based
pieces-and-parts waste into cans and packets.
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Your dog is merely an object of commerce and trade by law which
means it has no value beyond its price tag.
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Chemicals are added to dog foods that are banned in human food because they are
carcinogenic - cancer forming - hence the fact that 1 in 2 dogs will get some kind of
cancer by age 10.
•
The diet is pretty simple in theory and practice once you try it - I made sure my
book and step by step video program “Real Food for Dogs” was A, B, C simple, but
balanced, and easy to fit in with modern convenience lifestyles. Raw diets can be
prepared very simply and be very effective at keeping your
dog ultra healthy.
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Costs: We mistakenly think it’s extra expensive to feed a
raw diet like this. We think of T-bone steaks, supermarket
lamb chops in shrink wrapped styro-foam trays or other
expensive cuts. And when you have a Golden retriever to
feed, this sounds expensive. Yes, if you feed that way, it can
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be expensive but the supermarket is not the only place to purchase food for
your dog.
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A 30lb (13.61kg) bag of Eukanuba premium dog kibbles costs $47.00 in the US,
around £37.00 in the UK and usually lasts a month for a medium size dog of 50lb
(23kg). As an example it costs me around £30 ($45) per month to feed my 47lb
(21kg) dog high quality balanced raw food choices. This is less cost than a large
sack of premium kibble and for optimum nutrition too, which means greater health,
reduced veterinary intervention, drugs and associated costs.
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On average over the lifetime of a dog, an owner spends in the region of $750 in the
US, and £700 in the UK each year on veterinary costs. This includes checkups,
diagnosis, treatment, drugs, prescription dog food, vaccinations etc, with the bulk
of those costs occurring in your dog’s senior years.
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According to an Australian study conducted on 126
dogs over the span of 12 months fed a raw food diet,
costs were slashed by up to 85%. Veterinary visits
were considerably reduced with the big up-tick in
health among the test subjects. My personal research
conducted on my own - lab rat - Rocco (actually he’s a
9 year old English Staffordshire Bull Terrier) revealed a
95% saving on those prices with just a single
veterinary visit in 7 years. So you’d be looking at a minimum saving of over
$10,000 (£6,650) on the average life expectancy of your dog fed a raw food diet not to be sniffed at.
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A natural diet for dogs is just that-natural, no chemicals, no cooking, just raw on
the bone meat full of all the natural stuff that’s supposed to be in it. Meanwhile
those creative guys at the dog food plant have to get their buddies in the marketing
agency to manipulate Jo public with “evidence” from their other buddies in the
chemistry lab who conduct “controlled experiments” to draw up conclusions that the
data can’t really support. Heck - this data is even legally sustainable if you have the
money, even though it amounts to pure “BS”.
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Raw food for dogs comes mostly from human food
outlets which means its human grade and therefore
comes under strict human food laws, so it’s in good
shape, good quality, clean etc. Canned and packet
food for pets has no such laws governing it. Yes we
have the AFFCO organization guidelines on pet food
quality, but can you imagine the pet food giants
saying-thanks guys, but we’ll decide what we can get
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away with. This means you have to place your trust in companies that make pet
food and the accuracy of their labels.
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Feeding a raw food diet to dogs, bullet proofs their immune system - the immune
system is the body’s defender to invading bacterial and viral parasites - among
other clean up duties. In fact so much so, tests with my dog eating one week old
stinking putrefying meat had no dire effects. This is because the meat is unprocessed and decaying naturally with natural bacteria, normal for a dog (ever
wonder why they dig up old bones?).
It’s the decomposing of processed food which gives rise to anaerobic conditions that
causes the real danger for both us and our dogs, simply because of all the artificial
chemicals added to the food.
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There’s no grain in a raw dog food diet which is a good
thing as dogs have no real biological need for it. Dogs derive
their energy requirements from the processing of proteins
found in raw meat. Sure, they can eat the cheap filler in
commercial dog food, but the high levels seen in most
commercial dog food throws a dog’s chemical balance out. This
leaves their pancreas to compensate the lack of naturally
occurring enzymes in fresh food, which is a big reason so many dogs get diabetes.
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Raw food contains 70% moisture while kibble rarely has more than 12%. Kibble
takes up only 1/3 of the volume of an equivalent amount of natural dog food and
it’s well documented that a dog’s stomach and intestines need mechanical
stimulation for healthy digestion. This is why you get large waste deposits from
dogs on kibble, as most of it is shunted through your dogs body quickly, in part
digested or even un-digested form.
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A balanced raw food diet contains the essential naturally occurring minerals a dog
needs for optimum health. Minerals –and vitamins- added to commercial dog food,
are cheaper lab produced and made from inorganic synthesized chemicals. They are
not easily digested and mostly expelled by your dog’s body.
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You know what’s in a piece of raw meat, its muscle meat, some fat
and possible bone. Contrast that with what’s in a can or packet. It’s
difficult to even understand the label; it’s so full of general terms
that tread carefully along the legally provable line. But what they
really mean is it’s a toxic jungle of 21st century food waste,
preserved with PHD level chemicals we can’t even pronounce.
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•
When raw dog food is stored, it’s usually frozen which preserves its quality. Canned
food, when stored over long periods of time, has been shown to take up metal and
metal oxides from the can, in proportions that are not healthy to eat in large
quantities.
•
Stools from a raw fed dog being natural are easy to compost and will not destroy
your garden… or your lawn. Kibble contains so many toxic chemicals that very few
plants can tolerate it. And it’s the same for urine, as naturally fed dogs tend not to
leave dead grass spots.
•
Stools from a dog fed raw food are small and hard pellet like
objects containing mainly waste bone meal. After a day or
two in the sun they go white in color. It is then easy to
remove them to the flower bed where they act as fertilizer.
•
These same waste pellets are what express your dog’s anal
glands in a natural, predictable way without any blockage,
smell and discomfort which leads to costly vet or grooming
intervention.
•
A raw food diet means no obnoxious gas. I bet you can’t imagine what it’s like to
have your dog not drop those vile bombs in your living room? Smell is no longer a
problem.
•
Dogs fed a natural diet, develop a strong immune system
that will cause your vet bills to go down, maybe even
dramatically. It has been my personal experience that about
90% of allergies and skin problems simply disappear within 4
weeks of switching to a natural diet.
•
Dogs fed on a natural diet become energetic and show with
their increased vitality that they feel good. Most dogs even
obtain their ideal weight completely naturally, without any “dieting”. These results
are visible within 2 to 8 weeks of switching.
•
Dogs fed on a natural diet get the shiniest and softest coats you can obtain. They
also develop strong pigmentation. These are only two of the outer symptoms that
the internal glands - pancreas, thyroid, adrenal glands etc - are working well and
keeping the metabolism in good balance.
•
Dogs fed a natural diet can enjoy feeling full after every meal – simply because you
can allow them to fill their stomachs with quality nutrition.
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The Cons:
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Can be more expensive if you only want to pick up raw dog
food from supermarkets and have an Irish wolfhound sized
dog to feed. With small lap dogs you could buy from Macy’s
deli counter in New York and still feed cheaper though! So
consider the vast network of online suppliers and local
butchers or deli meat counters for better deals.
•
Bones can possibly get stuck in your dog’s throat, stomach or intestines, causing
injury. How true is this? 99.99% of the time, the problem is from cooked bones,
which are hardened and become brittle in the cooking process. This includes
discarded dry and hardened cooked chicken bones that dogs, rummaging in the
trash, fetch out to eat.
So even though the real problem is cooked bones, you could still say there is a very
small chance of raw dog bones being a problem. However, this can be eliminated
altogether by using a home grinder or buying ready ground in bone packaged raw
dog food. My book and step by step video program, Real Food for Dogs gives you
more alternatives too, so you get all the benefits and no bones to worry about.
•
Meat is supposed to be covered in bad bacteria like Salmonella, Campylobacter and
Staph which can upset a dog or make it very ill. Everything we touch is covered in
bacteria, including human food. We cook our food which kills the bacteria. A dog’s
defense to bacteria is its powerful stomach acids. The dog’s stomach acid is far
more powerful than ours for this very reason, and it kills 99.99% of incoming bugs
and bacteria.
That’s why dogs can lick, smell and generally do disgusting things while out on a
walk or run in the park with no upset. If by an extremely remote chance they do
get salmonella poisoning at one point in their lives, it isn’t life threatening for them
and once they’ve had it once, they develop a strong immunity towards re-infection.
•
A raw food diet takes long to prepare, doesn’t it?
•
I’ve seen some of those You Tube videos and dog diet books
go into great depth with all the ingredients needed plus the
preparation work. Long lists of ingredients, lots of
unnecessary supplements - most of which lead to imbalance,
pots & pans and mess in your kitchen daily and the washing
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up - no thanks.
I fully understand and that’s why I choose a simple convenient and low cost option
that’s effective. It doesn’t need to be long or complicated for amazing dog health. A
balanced, quality rich but simple diet can be prepared very simply and conveniently
with just as great results, if not better.
So there you have it, the pros and cons of feeding your dog a raw food diet. Looks
a bit top heavy on the pros that’s for sure and that’s because it’s a dog’s natural
biologically appropriate diet, so it’s going to be good for them.
Always re-evaluate and refresh the mind with new
ideas, it’s the only way we can stay closer to the truth.
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The Vital Role of Diet In Disease Prevention
“Prevention is better than cure” goes the saying and this is
especially true with our pet dogs.
As we know with people, a diet of predominately plant based
foods, rich in variety of vegetables, fruits, legumes and
minimally processed starchy and sugary foods helps to
prevent diseases such as diabetes, cancer and various allergy
conditions of the skin.
Dog’s also need their anti diabetes, cancer and bacterial
infection diet based around their natural biological need for meat, bone, offal
(internal organs) and a small amount of vegetable matter.
A healthy and often strict diet is an essential part of boosting your dog’s immune
system and preventing any possible disease in your dog’s system, and in nearly all
cases, a change in diet is the only necessary treatment to control and prevent
diseases such as diabetes, cancer and liver disease.
Through personal research and contact with thousands of dog owners, the central
theme of "diet" plays the most vital role in preventing disease in dogs. In fact
disease is almost unheard of in raw fed dogs.
A raw food based diet for dogs is highly successful in boosting a dog’s immune
system to prevent inflammation. Almost all dog owners having switched their dog
to a raw food diet note that their dog’s health is vastly improved.
Comments from my ‘Real Food for Dogs’ Customers:
I immediately switched him onto the new diet, which
turned out to be a cinch to do. It’s been 4 months now
and after the vet health check, the cancer has vanished
and all the other health problems along with it”
“Your excellent information literally saved my dogs
life…”
John Bailey MA USA
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Dan really knows what he is talking about, has been
supportive, encouraging and always accessible every
time I’ve had a question, pointing me in the right
direction each time. Who would ever have thought, a
little white fluff ball would be able to demolish a rack of
ribs in 5 minutes (oh and he has brilliant teeth).
Cherie Concannon Loughborough UK
Within just a few weeks the gas stopped, his doggy
breath cleared up, the shedding stopped and the
diarrhea’s gone too.”
…his teeth have remained perfectly clean, that will
already save me hundreds of dollars per year…
Thank you for writing the book, it’s a blessing to me, I cant thank you enough.”
Julie Hayes, Atlanta Georgia USA
Every single condition I had a problem with vanished
after several months …My vet bills shrank from
literally thousands to almost zero within a couple of
months… just wonderful.”
From the bottom of my heart, thank you Dan”
Madeline, Blaze, Cody, Sky, Star and Keisha, Seattle WA
Meal time is a joy, all eating peacefully together, there is no
smell now from the food, everything is eaten, their breath never
smells and the poos are amazing-I pick them up! Apart from
cleaning Elmo down after runs in the park when its muddy,
there’s so little need for bathing the dogs now, they just stay
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smelling fresh!
Daria Epstein, Pr Consultant, London UK
Comments from my YouTube community:
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KRSchannel 5 months ago-
“you are a life saver!! I switched my dog to raw food diet, and his worms are now gone!!! thank
you!!!”
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Thehomefront 1 month ago-
“i changed my EBT diet to a raw diet, only problem i found is that the bloody things got twice as
much energy, also he would often limp from time to time with an old injury and i would have to
get him pain killers from my vet but that has’nt happened since he’s been on a raw diet.”
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Godsfiddler 6 months ago-
“Ok, my computer did actually download that E Book. Something else very interesting you cover
is the anal sac issue. Now I probably will never have to express my other dog’s anal glands
again. Wow!”
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PokatalicaDeltaForce 10 months ago-
“Vets do not know much about nutrition. I am currently in vet school and all we get is a seminar
about it from horrible pet food people like Hills and Nestle and such. Raw is the way to go. That
is what my dalmatian pup eats.”
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MrLolypop55 3 months ago-
“THIS GUY IS ONE OF THE BEST ADVICE ON THE WEB NOT LIKE THESE OTHER
VIDEOS READING A NOTE CARD TO THE CAMERA BECAUSE THEY DONT KNOW WHAT
THEIR TALKING ABOUT”
And a few comments from the HealthyDogForLife.com Blog
Caroline
“We put our Basset on a raw diet and she hasn’t had an ear infection since (in the last 6 months)
– prior to that she had 4 in the first 4 months we had her!”
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Hannah
“This article is so true. My aunt actually lost her beloved dog in kidney disease all we suspect
due to her feeding of commercial food, though the dog has little kidney infection before, it was
worsen while my cousin who has the litter make with the same case of kidney was survived for 10
years, all because they fed her with raw diet.”
jana rade
“That is a very interesting point. Commercial diets have been blamed for everything from
allergies to cancer. And yet there is still such a strong push towards them.
I wish the experts would realize this and stopped brainwashing public into the need of feeding
commercial dog food.”
Dakota
“Yes! Yes! Yes! I’ve been feeding raw for about 14 years now and have come to the same
conclusion: “Raw Food Rocks! and Kibble Kills!”
a.hamilton
“Thank goodness for common sense. Getting back to basics and natural feeding are the only way
to go if you love your pet and want a long happy relationship. Trips to the vets being for
emergencies and accidents rather than long term chronic conditions. Thankyou for bringing this
way of pet care to our attention.”
Geraldine Gardiner
“Very exciting stuff can’t wait to put new diet for my dog into pratice. Wish you every success,
thank you for caring so passionetly about our faithful and innocent companions.”
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Here's a Good Comparison-Your Car
Think of your dog's digestive system as a car engine
and the food you feed as fuel. Your car runs on a
certain quality of gasoline. Depending on where you
live, you have 87 (Regular), 89 (Mid-grade), and 93
(Premium) in the US are common. Or in the UK You
have 2 choices of gas, the premium one at 97 ron
and the regular gas at 95 ron and that's it.
If you try to put any other form of inferior gas in
your tank, your car will malfunction and have to be taken to the auto mechanics for
repair which can be costly as the damage done to sensitive equipment in the engine
may need to be completely replaced. So we understand cars have sensitive engines
that need only the high quality fuel provided at the gas station.
Put it another way; if you drove past a gas station with a sign out front saying "half
price gas" and you drove in delighted at such a good deal only to see another sign
saying "may cause problems to your car" would you still fill-er-up?
What About Dogs, What Do They Have to Do With Cars?
Your dog runs on similar principals. They have highly evolved digestive systems
"engines" that run on high quality food "fuel" and when the quality of fuel fed to
them is of inferior quality, after time they begin to malfunction. In this case your
dog is a living creature that can, up to a point, adapt its engine to cope with inferior
fuel and still run pretty well for a number of years.
However, because the fuel does not have all the ingredients necessary to sustain
optimal performance from your dog in the long term, eventually malfunctions begin
to appear. And any of the ailments in the list above now come into play, having
slowly in most cases built up over time, also known as "chronic disease".
It's a simple equation but not well understood for one simple reason. Cars run on
gasoline because that's the dominant fuel industry and other fuel inventions are
held back even though they exist and can mean cheaper fuel. Commercial dog food
in the form of kibble and canned dog food is the dominant food industry for dogs
even though other foods exist that can mean cheaper and healthier food. Again,
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these alternative foods for dogs are held back to preserve power and profit for the
dominant industry - simple economic law.
What You Can Do About Your Dog’s Diet - Your Choices?
1. If your dog has health issues, then look to changing their food to a raw based
diet to help boost their immune system, create mental health and wellbeing and
allow your dog to naturally heal itself. This diet brings peace of mind, greatly
reduces risk of disease and a predictable outcome because you are in control.
2. In order to bullet proof your dog’s immune system for great health, to prevent
future health problems and cost, change your dog's diet to natural nutrition. A
balanced raw food diet is the by far the best option as it can significantly help
your dog to boost its immune system. This ends future infection problems
because now your dog’s immune system is getting the vital nutrients it needs to
stay strong while doing its job of protecting your dog from the inside.
Important Points to Consider:
Your vet is highly trained in diagnosis and treatment and should serve you well in
that respect. However, vets are not nutritionists and have little understanding of
the role nutrition plays in the health of your dog. Their first course of action in most
dog ailments is to prescribe drugs and or vet endorsed "specialty" prescription dog
food. This introduces conflict of interest as vets are fully set up to sell drugs and pet
food for a share of the profit from their practice.
On the other hand, human doctors are under strict laws to refer you to a chemist
for medications and also to refer you to a clinical nutritionist for diet treatment.
I personally feel that this conflict of interest is too great to ignore, and as such fully
recommend you become proactive in providing quality
nutrition for your dog, just as you are for your kids.
Becoming the expert at nutrition and feeding your dog a
healthy raw food based diet is simple to learn and simple
to get started with many health benefits.
Remember how scientists, doctors, and nutritionists
are always telling us to stay away from processed
foods because they are unhealthy for us?
We as adults are responsible for our kid's diet and do our
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best to feed them a wholesome diet for good health. The same goes for your dog;
he or she is a part of the family and needs the same attention to diet for good
health.
Your family doctor supports this and you are in control. Meanwhile your dogs vet is
not usually supportive of raw food diets because they either do not understand
nutrition (although they may state otherwise) or have a vested interest in selling
you prescription dog food and drugs.
Either way, the quality of canned and kibble dog food regardless of stated quality,
follows the commercial processing practice of cheap inferior quality contents. It’s
cooked at high temperatures to kill bacteria, which also kills the nutritional element
your dog needs, and is then loaded with often dangerous synthetic additives (some
completely banned in human food as carcinogens which are cancer forming).
It would seem that there is one rule for our kids i.e. parents are responsible and
another for our dogs which is that we cannot have responsibility for their nutritional
welfare. That must be in the hands of pet food giants and vets who get paid to sell
dog food at their clinic! And because this situation is not well understood, we
continue to be governed by the dictates of corporate dog food manufacturers who
place little value on your dog's health beyond their profit return while alive.
The Bottom Line
Now may not be the time to express personal opinions on the merits or lack of in
any mainstream pet food and to put personal reservations aside. Your personal
comfort level is not necessarily your dogs comfort level, so it’s important you sit
quietly and think about what’s important for your dogs comfort levels. And if that
means feeding them a raw food diet for the best benefit to your dog, then it’s
important you try to review your own personal views or those of your vet who is
not a canine nutritionist and think of what is clearly best for your dogs health and
well being.
This isn’t an issue of taste or comfort or reward, it’s an issue of health,
strength, well-being, immunity and longevity. Compromise the natural order
of your dog’s diet by feeding them canned or bagged dog food manufactured in a
plant with the assistance of additives, chemicals and supplements, and you are
disturbing the natural order of things. Your dog’s health will suffer for it. Period.
If your dog has health problems or you want to be proactive in preventing them,
switch over to a raw food diet plan to help boost your dog’s immune system. This
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will give your ailing senior dog a lot of their former healthy life back – they deserve
it!
A raw food diet will help your senior dog to regain a surprising amount health and
wellbeing and prolong their life in greater comfort and happiness.
If you do not want to feed a raw food diet, the next best option is a homemade
partially-cooked food diet.
The only available natural diet choice, the one dogs are biologically predisposed to
eat and thrive on, is to switch your dogs diet to one based around raw food for best
medicinal and immune system support. Any recommendation of canned or kibble
prescription food is a compromise with your money and your dog’s health.
Most likely it’s a commercial dog food that’s the cause of whatever health
problem your dogs faces and it’s a raw food diet that will fix them for the
long term. And with it you can finally get peace of mind now the health risk has
gone.
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Final Thoughts
100 years ago, only one in one hundred dogs
contracted some form of cancer, and today it’s now one
in two. And diseases like diabetes and IBS never even
existed; these are modern diseases brought about by
modern unregulated pet food manufacturing.
For the most part I’m sad to
have to tell you some of the
truths about our dog food system. Every day I get
messages from dog owners who have discovered their best
friend has an infection or cancerous condition because of a
compromised immune system or pulling their hair out trying
to control repeated skin allergies that drugs and
prescription dog food cannot mask for long.
Canine diseases have become so commonplace now, that I
had to write this report, so I can offer more comprehensive
helpful information and advice to dog owners.
Help with how you can boost your dog’s immune system permanently in a safe
effective and natural manor without having to resort to surgery, toxic drugs and
veterinary costs. And also so you understand how your dog’s immune system is
under constant attack from chemicals in commercial dog food that lead to immune
system breakdown and disease.
I wish it were different and we lived in a world where we all cared for each
other as we would for ourselves and our families. But we don't, and the facts
have proven self evident.
We MUST be proactive to protect our furry friends. It’s the only reliable
way we can rest easy.
I have no axe to grind, just cold light of day insights into a less than perfect system
that has created profitable enterprise by using the mountains of human food and
other industrial waste and with clever marketing, re-packaged it as canned and
kibble pet food for vast profits off the back of innocent people and their pets.
When we disturb the natural balance of creation and evolution things tend not to
turn out well. And in this case, when we're talking about a natural carnivore that
happens to be living with us in our homes as our pet, we're depriving our
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beloved dogs of what their bodies crave when we feed them anything
other than natural raw food.
My mission is to help you and your dog live happy, healthy and long lives.
Be kind to your dog; feed a simple balanced natural diet.
Sincerely,
Dan Scott
P.S. Contact me here, I’m happy to answer dog health questions: just click on the
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in touch.
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Dan Scott and his dog Rocco
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For 9 Years, Dan Scott has focused his entire life around helping people create
better, healthier lives for their dogs. He is dedicated to teaching people the dangers
of feeding their beloved companion’s commercial dog food, showing them how they
can make the switch-over to “real food” and demonstrating how this is
synergistically aligned to their canine physiology.
Dan’s books, reports, videos and coaching services are always in demand
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