What Should I Feed My Dog To Keep Her Healthy?
Terry Cross
Coming Soon! Expert answers to your pet care questions!
My goal as a dog breeder is to not only raise healthy puppies but to give their new owners the guidance and information to keep them healthy.
If you’ve got questions about making wise choices in caring for your dog or are confused about diet choices, the good the bad, and the truly dire I want to help keep you on track. I’m passionate about helping people find a blend of natural and conventional ways to take good care of their dogs. I’ve written a guide about the basics which you can get below and you can find more on my new website which will be launched Summer of 2023!
For example, so many choices in what to feed your pet, it’s truly mind-boggling.
(You'd be surprised which foods this dog breeder would NEVER feed her pets!).
While I've answered literally thousands of questions and calls from past customers continue to convince me that people who love their pets and want to take good care of them are deluged with so many options and yes, bad choices some of which come from their veterinarian's office.
Here's an example: I had a call from Donna the other day and as we chatted about the supplies she'd need before her new Cavapoo puppy arrived with the flight nanny, I asked what she was feeding her 9-year-old French Bulldog Barney.
"Oh, I've always gotten Barney's food from the vet, it's a prescription diet so I"m sure it's one of the healthier foods or they wouldn't be recommending it, right? Donna replied."
I groaned inwardly, hoping that the brand she mentioned had surely improved since I last checked the label. Since I was sitting near my laptop I told Donna to hang on while I shared with her the ingredient deck for Barney's food, thanks to Google, within moments I was looking in dismay at the following list of ingredients for one of the most expensive pet foods on the market; ingredients which unbelievably were even worse than when I used it in the days before I found out the hard way what a poor quality diet can do to the dog you love.
Corn, chicken by-product meal, brewers rice, brown rice, corn gluten meal, chicken fat, natural flavors, dried plain beet pulp, wheat gluten..."
What a genuinely dire list of components! CORN is the first ingredient and corn gluten meal is the 5th, and chicken by-product meal (you don’t even want to know what that consists of)!
For the sake of the dog you love, if you have a bag of one of the popular veterinary or prescription diets in your pantry right now, I beg you to take ten minutes and read this informative article from a resource I trust (though I wish they'd use slightly less flamboyant language, the message is still worth sharing so I'll share the link HERE even if I'm not thrilled with the language in the title 😢
My goal is to have a complete resource in the days ahead that will give you clear answers to so many questions that will affect the health of your dog in the years ahead, in the meantime, don’t miss the article from Dog’s Naturally, you need to know today what’s in the food you’re getting at the vet’s office.