Supplementing, Topping, or Adding to Kibble

Gosh! Makes me shudder reading some of the comments. Depending on your belief’s Dogs were created or evolved as a carnivorous animal just like wolves, lions, tigers e.t.c. Carnivorous means meat eating full stop! Just imagine if you worked at a zoo, would you be feeding the wolves and lions pumpkin, rice e.t.c?

Secondly: carnivorous animals have been built to eat meat raw where all the nutrients are present in the natural form with the required biochemicals that will help absorb everything that the piece of meat has to offer. You cook it and you will firstly dissolve and remove most of the good stuff, whats remaining will not have the bio-availability for the digestive system to recognise the various nutrients, proteins e.t.c.

What is shit? its digestive waste. You want to know why dogs shit huge loads, runny pools, big fat turds? Because they are fed food that cannot be recognised, has very little value and hence most of it is converted into big smelly poo! Dogs on prey model based diet have very little dry crumbly shit that does not smell. My 65kg gets fed around 2 – 3 kilos as he is still young and growing, his shit will be half my palm, get it? Food large enough as a whole chicken when eaten raw only produces little shit, as its good food. Food such as high carb diet is mostly shit and hence the big poo’s.

Do your furry family member a favour and at the least do some reading such as this:

www.rawessentials.co.nz

http://rawfed.com/myths/

So, if you are going to stick to kibbles then at least use one that has very high meat proteins in it like Origen, and supplement it with raw meat. Best to have the raw meat stored in the freezer for 24 hours.

Even I used to feed kibbles until I researched a bit and found the above. Convert for the love of you pooch.
Gosh! Makes me shudder reading some of the comments. Depending on your belief’s Dogs were created or evolved as a carnivorous animal just like wolves, lions, tigers e.t.c. Carnivorous means meat eating full stop! Just imagine if you worked at a zoo, would you be feeding the wolves and lions pumpin?

Secondly: carnivorous animals have been built to eat meat raw where all the nutrients are present in the natural form with the required biochemicals that will help absorb everything that the piece of meat has to offer. You cook it and you will firstly dissolve and remove most of the good stuff, whats remaining will not have the bio-availability for the digestive system to recognise the various nutrients, proteins e.t.c.

What is shit? its digestive waste. You want to know why dogs shit huge loads, runny pools, big fat turds? Because they are fed food that cannot be recognised, has very little value and hence most of it is converted into big smelly poo! Dogs on prey model based diet have very little dry crumbly shit that does not smell. My 65kg gets fed around 2 – 3 kilos as he is still young and growing, his shit will be half my palm, get it? Food large enough as a whole chicken when eaten raw only produces little shit, as its good food. Food such as high carb diet is mostly shit and hence the big poo’s.

Do your furry family member a favour and at the least do some reading such as this:
www.rawessentials.co.nz

http://rawfed.com/myths/

So, if you are going to stick to kibbles then at least use one that has very high meat proteins in it like Origen, and supplement it with raw meat. Best to have the raw meat stored in the freezer for 24 hours.

Even I used to feed kibbles until I researched a bit and found the above. Convert for the love of you pooch.

Forgot to mention that my dog has never been bathed other than swims, he has no doggy odour, his long coat is shiny as, he has no discharges from his eyes or ears (never had to clean his ear) he has never had to be taken to a vet with any disorder (touch wood).

Peace
Navman

I add boiled chicken or beef liver once a week. I add fresh blanched green beans once a week for a change. I add boiled chicken breast or chicken legs a couple times a week. I add chicken gizzards once every two weeks for a change. I sometimes add tuna fish or pumpkin or yogurt or slightly boiled carrots. I also add vitamin E and fish oil.

My dogs have been eating 4Health and TOTW. They are now eating Blue Buffalo.

Eddee is really picky and must have canned food for his morning meal. I have been giving him Purina Pro Plan canned. It was rated 4 stars on the dogfoodadvisor.

Reason: My dogs are very picky and rightfully so ... I just admittedly like spoiling them ... they live such short lives I want to make it as pleasant as possible for them.

EDIT: To some ... it may not have much nutritional value as it has been cooked ... but my dogs eat the best food I can afford ... and I believe they are getting proper nutrition this way ... and they think the toppings are delicious! Lol!

We had to put Skittles, our beagle, on a liver cleanse about five years ago. He and my other dog liked the diet so much we kept it with a couple of alterations to keep the cost down, and skittles seems to have gotten younger every year since! The diet was a mix of canned veggies, white rice, and cod. We substituted beef or lamb canned dog food for the cod and added a little dry kibble for his teeth. Both our dogs love this diet and are very healthy. We keep variety in the mix by changing which kind of canned veggies they get and using either beef or lamb alternatively. If we had the money we would also add some Broccoli. The oldest dog and oldest cat in the world had the same owner. He said his secret was to feed them broccoli with their food. The animals were in their thirties or forties and were both completely bald!

Balanced meal is an overrated term and hyped by the pet food companies and the vets they sponsor. Its their main marketing weapon!!!! Think about how wild dogs and wolves eat. They live in packs and when a large prey is caught they settle down around the carcass to eat. Each member gets a position based on their ranking, so one meal for a member might consist of just eating the leg meat or stomach contents, organs, ribs e.t.c. They don’t eat bits of all parts, most often pieces are torn off and taken away to be consumed. A bitch could take a leg to feed her pups and herself, that’s all they get for that meal or day/s. Next time the order changes and they get some other part of the body. Over the course of time they eventually would have consumed various parts of the entire body. This is BALANCE. There is no need to balance each meal. Best thing to do is to get a chest freezer, fill it with carcasses of whatever you can buy, offals (heart, liver, brains, kidneys e.t.c) green tripe (stomach) if you can find it, meaty bones, meat, whole animals if you can. I get whole possums, rabbits, hare, fish, essentially animals killed for fur trade where the meat is of no use or sometimes sold to pet food companies. Most of the above can be found in the cheap bins at butchers, or befriend your local butcher and have an arrangement with him. Get it pre cut if need be depending on the size of your furry member. Once you have set up a freezer with such parts, just grab whatever comes to hand for feeding. Eventually they will get all parts of the body so no need to balance each meal.