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Modern Myths About Feeding Your Dog:
Myth #1: The digestive system of the modern domesticated dog is much "weaker" than a wild dog's, and tat is why modern dogs have to be fed differently to their wild cousins.
That belief is based on nothing other than opinion. There have been NO scientific studies to back it up.
On the contrary, the experiences of both scientists and numerous dog owners the world over confirm that the internal workings, including the entire digestive system, and the way food is utilised for growth, maintenance, repaid and reproduction, is fundamentally the same in ALL dogs, both wild and domesticated.
Partly on the basis of that supposedly weaker metabolism in the modern dog, which in many people's minds includes their teeth, there have developed two further myths...
Myth #2: Dogs should NOT eat bones, and....
Myth #3: All dog food should be cooked.
Unfortunately these ideas are self-perpetuating. Dogs fed cooked and processed food and no bones will ALWAYS develop a weakened immune system and poor dental health.
The next myth, number four suggest that the intelligence of the modern dog owner has declined at about the same pace and degree as the modern dog's internal workings.
Myth #4: It is impossible without a university education in dog nutrition to be able to successfully feed a dog.
Because people have believed that modern dogs cannot be fed like wild dogs, they have attempted to feed dogs in all sorts of unnatural ways without bones. The results have often proved disastrous.
Those disasters have lead many people, including lots of vets to believe that feeding dogs is very difficult. This idea is reinforced by massive "education" campaigns launched by the major food companies.
Myth #5: The best way to feed a dog is with commercial dog food. (Now the label "organic" is being pushed as the best commercial food.)
As if that were not bad enough, such a myth gives rise to myth number 6....
Myth #6: Each meal you feed your dog should be complete and balanced.
On the face of it, that one sounds OK.... However, it too, like the other five myths is a modern idea devised for no other reason than to enable the sale of processed pet foods. It has NO SCIENTIFIC basis. On the contrary, it violates many natural feeding laws, and in the process lays the foundation for sick dogs.
As yourself the question... is that the way you design your own meals? Each of them balanced with every conceivable nutrient present which you require? Of course you don't. No creature since life began has eaten that way.
The attempt to put all the nutrients a dog requires in one product results in much ill health.
It is by reference to those six myths or beliefs that the majority of dog owners decide how their dog(s) should be fed. The result, as I have already mentioned, is a dog population which suffers numerous unnecessary and preventable health problems.
To read more about what is right for your dog click here - no myths here!
That belief is based on nothing other than opinion. There have been NO scientific studies to back it up.
On the contrary, the experiences of both scientists and numerous dog owners the world over confirm that the internal workings, including the entire digestive system, and the way food is utilised for growth, maintenance, repaid and reproduction, is fundamentally the same in ALL dogs, both wild and domesticated.
Partly on the basis of that supposedly weaker metabolism in the modern dog, which in many people's minds includes their teeth, there have developed two further myths...
Myth #2: Dogs should NOT eat bones, and....
Myth #3: All dog food should be cooked.
Unfortunately these ideas are self-perpetuating. Dogs fed cooked and processed food and no bones will ALWAYS develop a weakened immune system and poor dental health.
The next myth, number four suggest that the intelligence of the modern dog owner has declined at about the same pace and degree as the modern dog's internal workings.
Myth #4: It is impossible without a university education in dog nutrition to be able to successfully feed a dog.
Because people have believed that modern dogs cannot be fed like wild dogs, they have attempted to feed dogs in all sorts of unnatural ways without bones. The results have often proved disastrous.
Those disasters have lead many people, including lots of vets to believe that feeding dogs is very difficult. This idea is reinforced by massive "education" campaigns launched by the major food companies.
Myth #5: The best way to feed a dog is with commercial dog food. (Now the label "organic" is being pushed as the best commercial food.)
As if that were not bad enough, such a myth gives rise to myth number 6....
Myth #6: Each meal you feed your dog should be complete and balanced.
On the face of it, that one sounds OK.... However, it too, like the other five myths is a modern idea devised for no other reason than to enable the sale of processed pet foods. It has NO SCIENTIFIC basis. On the contrary, it violates many natural feeding laws, and in the process lays the foundation for sick dogs.
As yourself the question... is that the way you design your own meals? Each of them balanced with every conceivable nutrient present which you require? Of course you don't. No creature since life began has eaten that way.
The attempt to put all the nutrients a dog requires in one product results in much ill health.
It is by reference to those six myths or beliefs that the majority of dog owners decide how their dog(s) should be fed. The result, as I have already mentioned, is a dog population which suffers numerous unnecessary and preventable health problems.
To read more about what is right for your dog click here - no myths here!
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