Many of us think of our dogs as family, and just as you wouldn’t feed a steady diet of processed food to your family, you should not feed your dog processed food. The best diet for a dog is a raw dog food diet. While you and your family might not thrive on a diet of only raw foods, here are three reasons why it is the best option for your dog.
1. The best reason for putting your dog on a raw diet is that it’s best health wise. Dogs are opportunistic carnivores, meaning their inclination is to eat meat, but they will eat vegetables when meat is not available or just because they like the taste. For survival, dogs have learned to adapt and eat whatever is available, but at heart, they are wolves craving meat. One type of food that dogs have not adapted well to is grain; most commercial pet food has for its primary ingredient either wheat or corn.
Dogs switched to a raw diet stop smelling bad, and they lose the “doggy breath.” Dogs eating raw food have fewer problems with allergies and healthier shiner coats, because they are receiving the vitamins and minerals their bodies require for optimum health. Commercial pet foods add vitamins and minerals, but they are not always in a form absorbable to dogs and therefore do the animal no good, which is why dogs who are raised on a raw dog food diet suffer less from arthritis.
2. If the health aspects of a raw dog food diet are not enough of an incentive, then consider the cost advantage. Feeding a dog raw food is cheaper than buying commercial dog food. With dry store-bought dog food, you pay for food processed to the point of having a shelf life of months or even years. All of that processing costs money, and the results aren’t even good for your best friend. Instead of paying for an inferior product and profiting the dog food company, you can pay less for a healthy, natural diet and enjoy seeing your dog thrive.
3. Putting your dog on a raw diet eliminates waste. Dogs on a commercial food diet eat a lot because they are craving elements in their diet they are not receiving. When eating raw food, they eat less because they are satisfied more quickly. In addition, their bodies are able to more completely digest what they eat and there is less waste which is produced as well. This means less clean-up for you, the owner, on walks.
Why waste money on an inferior product that will compromise your dog’s health, a product you have no control over and of which you have no quality control? With the raw dog food diet, you can ensure your dog gets what it needs nutritionally and save money on food and vet bills.
Gene is an avid writer with a do it yourself (DIY) attitude. One suggestion is to make your own homemade dog food recipes for a happy and healthy dog. Gene created a special website to promote a healthy diet for his dogs that help them to live a happy and longer life by going on a raw dog food diet.
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