Dog Breed

Christmas Seasons

2006-12-25T23:45:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone,

I just want to wish Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

May all your wish come true!

regards,

Marina

p.s. Don't forget to take care of your dogs.

p.s.2 Don't give to much cookies to your dogs.

Home Made Dog Food

2006-12-22T21:37:00.000-08:00

Dog Food Home Made Diets

Dog food home made diets are important in the dog feeding. Many a times, the commercial diets consist of food items that have artificial coloring agents and flavoring agents that are harmful to the dog's body. Home made food items have the guarantee of freshness in the preparation unlike the ready-made commercial items.

The preservatives added in the commercial food items may not be the suitable ones to the dogs from the health point of view. Even in case of renal diseases in dogs, the home made diets may be made with ground beef, slices of bread, calcium carbonate, boiled eggs etc. [dog food] The purpose is to have the restricted protein supply in the feed items prepared. This should be carried out with home made diets prepared exclusively for the dogs suffering from renal diseases. Water is added in sufficient quantities to help the proper metabolism in the digestion-impaired renal cases. [dog food]

The dog may have allergic symptoms like severe itching, which may not get corrected by different kinds of medications employed over a period of time. Such cases may get easily treated once the dog food is changed from the commercial type of food to the home made food items.

Often, the home made food items are prepared using the freezing procedures to kill the germs or by adding grape seed extracts to provide sufficient antioxidants to the home made food items. Food grade vinegar is also added in many times to the meat pieces prepared in a fresh manner. All these can be enriched with vitamin supplements that are available in fruit essences, fish oil etc. [dog food]

Cranberry juice, bananas, fish and meat are prepared in a quality manner and no preservatives are added during the preparation of these kinds of food items and the dog becomes more active after the consumption of such food items.[dog food]

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Understanding dog food ingredients

2006-12-21T17:44:00.000-08:00

Understanding dog food ingredients

Understanding the ingredients of your dog's food items is a must for the dog lovers or dog owners. Whenever you feed the dog with different kinds of food items, you should always read the label and understand the contents about the dog feed types that are being used in such commercial preparations. You should understand the ingredients while buying your dog food and also know what to look for dog food.

Feed items include dry and fresh food. The fresh dog food that is prepared in homes generally consists of ingredients like freshly cut chicken pieces in addition to the cranberry juices, blue-green algae, etc.

If you come across any different kinds of preservatives in the dog food and if the dog develops all of a sudden signs pertaining to the dog food allergy, suspect the unwanted ingredient in the feed items given. Similarly, understand about the moisture status. If the dog food item is having more moisture, then the dog may prefer this as well.

Beet pulp, pasta, Soy bean oil, wheat middlings, calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide, copper sulphate, iron sulphate, zinc oxide, choline chloride, etc. are often the ingredients in case of vegetarian based diet items offered to the pet animals like dogs. [dog food]

Raw egg, chicken, beef, mutton, fish, quail etc. are often the preferred ingredients in case of dog food diets that are prepared on the basis of the non-vegetarian items. Taurine is one of the essential ingredients for the dog’s nutrition. Like wise, in the case of dogs feed with frozen fish items, the vitamin called thiamine needs to be supplemented as an ingredient. [dog food]

Many premium type of dog food preparations contain essential fatty acids, carbohydrates with adequate fiber contents, vitamins like A, D, E and B complex vitamins.

Furthermore, minerals like zinc, is an essential ingredient for skin health status and calcium,

which is an essential ingredient for bone growth, tonicity of muscles. They should be enriched in these dog food items. However, the cost of those dog food preparations are comparatively more expensive than the dog food preparations with general ingredients. Though it may be better for your dog's health.

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