It goes without saying that your dog needs suitable nutrition to
remain healthy. Vets and pet food manufacturers often have differing
views on appropriate nutrition for your dog. Although commercial pet food
manufacturers are motivated in large part by profits, commercially
prepared foods are routinely recommended as part of an adequate, or good,
diet for your dog. Sometimes your vet or dog breeder may approve of
commercially prepared foods as your dog’s sole diet. Many experts,
however, tend to prefer a largely natural diet which for dogs is
invariably comprised of meat and bones. Raw is preferable to cooked, as
some of the minerals are definitely lost in the cooking process.
The reason why the commercially prepared pet food is so often fed
to our dogs, is because, apart from the convenience, it can (depending
upon the quality) actually contain many of the nutrients which are
essential to your dog’s wellbeing. The key word here is quality. There
are in fact very, very few commercial manufacturers which produce
nutrient-rich food. And they're not the brands you find in your
supermarket, or even in most pet stores or vetinarians.
Raw bones with a little dry food as well as occasional rice or
pasta, and perhaps the odd quality food scrap from your table, will
generally contain most of the nutrients which your dog needs.
All dogs must obtain reasonable nutrition from their food to
maintain excellent health and performance. The main nutrients required by
your dog are water, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins.
Vitamin or mineral deficiency in dogs fed a commercially manufactured
diet today is not widely publicised. But then again, the slosh and dried
formulae which are readily available from your vet or the local
supermarket are not your dog’s natural diet. If your dog was left to fend
for itself in the wild (assuming it could manage to adapt, that is),
would choose raw meat. And one of the reasons why meat, and especially
bones, are so good, is the chewing action and the teeth cleaning function
which the bones perform. Of course, there are also commercially prepared
substitutes which can also effectively clean your dog‘s teeth and satisfy
his/her need to chew.
A lesser known fact is that to feed your dog only meat (with no
bones and no cereals or other carbohydrate source) can cause severe
deficiencies: your dog is likely to become lethargic, sick, and even
death has been known to occur from an all meat diet. But what about dogs
in the wild, I hear you ask? Isn’t meat a dog’s natural diet? Isn’t that
what you just said, Brigitte? Well, yes and no: in the wild dogs eat the
whole of their prey, not simply muscle meat - they thus obtain vegetable
matter from the digestive tract of their prey, and calcium from the
bones. As well, wild dogs occasionally, but routinely, add to their diet
with plants, fruit and berries.
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