Is Healthy Homemade Dog Food What You Feed Your Dog? His Life Depends Upon Your Choices!

When I was a child, growing up in England, feeding our dogs with healthy dog food was simply the way it was done. I remember two black Labradors in my life, first there was Trix, a male with a sweet disposition, and much later Jace, who was given to me as a puppy for my twelfth birthday. He remained with me into my married life and eventually had to be put to sleep after being diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of fifteen.

Back then my mother never so much as considered buying cans of dog food. She cooked healthy, nutritious meals for her entire family and that included homemade food for the dogs. A couple of times a week she would cook up a pot with a basis of marrow or mutton bones, meat scraps from the butcher and trimmings from our meals, vegetables, rice, barley and a dollop of yeast extract (Marmite).

The bones were provided to enhance the stock and were always discarded after cooking, but a couple of times a month the dogs would get half a raw marrow bone each. I can still see Jace licking further and further into the center of his bone to extract every last morsel of marrow.

Both labs were healthy, energetic dogs throughout their lives and I know this can be attributed to their healthy diets of homemade dog food. Their coats were glossy, their teeth were clean and in good condition. Neither was ever overweight.

How different things have become. Today the norm is to stock up with commercially prepared supermarket junk, packed with toxins, deadly chemicals including melamine, that have been banned from human foods, and euthanized animals from zoos, animal control and putrid, decaying road kill. Melamine, found in the wheat gluten, is used in pesticides, as well as in the manufacture of plastics.

I attribute this thinking (or maybe I should say lack of it), to todays attitude to living. Why go to the trouble of doing something yourself when the convenient solution is sitting at eye level on a supermarket shelf? I'm ashamed to admit that with the passing of time I too had been lulled into succumbing to this all too easy way out - until the scary dog food recall of 2007! That truly was my wake up call.

I prayed I hadn't done permanent damage and immediately put my two dalmatians on a diet of healthy, 100% natural, homemade dog food. Then I began some in depth research on the commercial dog food industry and my findings did not paint a pretty picture.

Apparently, the lucrative dog food industry was born in postwar America when business interests decided it would be profitable to recycle slaughterhouse and industrial waste. This garbage had uses as fertilizer, landfill and the like, but a significantly more profitable prospect existed in promoting and selling this junk as dog food to unwary owners.

This marked the beginning of the widespread brainwashing that your dog cannot possibly maintain a healthy life unless he is fed commercial dog food. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Ask yourself this question - how did dogs survive before the advent of commercial dog food?

For anyone who is still unconvinced as to the advantages of feeding natural, homemade dog food, here are ten benefits that you will certainly see when you stop feeding your dog on commercial, processed junk food.

• You will save money in the purchase price
• You will save money in reduced veterinary expenses because your dog will be healthier
• Noticeably improved condition of the coat and skin
• Overall condition will improve - previously overweight dogs will lose weight
• Allergies will lessen and likely vanish altogether
• Energy levels will improve
• Cleaner teeth and fresh smelling breath
• Previously excitable dogs will be calmer because of the chemicals eliminated from their diet
• Noticeable reduction in stiffness and previously painful joints
• Elimination of body odor. Healthy dogs don't smell
• Less offensive stools and less of them because "real" food is digested more efficiently with less waste

C. Anne is the author of multiple articles related to the care and nurture of domestic pets. Several have been picked up and used as handouts by vets and shelters. She is an advocate of training by "Positive Reinforcement" and a campaigner against all forms of animal abuse and exploitation. To download a complimentary 138 Page Book of Healthy Dog Food Recipes Click ==> http://4petsonline.com/dog-food-recipes.htm

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