Your Dog is what you feed it
“As a responsible dog owner, you owe it to your pet to ensure their diet is perfectly matched to their lifestyle, age and activity level. Many dog owners simply select a food and stick with it, never trying anything different and refusing to change even as the dog”s lifestyle changes.”
I must say I fell into the later bracket until very recently. Our Dachshunds have been fed on a major brands breed specific food for the last 7 or so years.
Coming from the school of, if its not broken don’t fix it, I was loathe to change to any other product / brand or food type.
That’s until our oldest, Doris, who is 10 in November was diagnosed with diabetes.
As in humans, diet is extremely important in relation to keeping diabetes under control.
We switched her to a light and sensitive food, salmon based, and her sugar levels have drastically reduced. We still have to inject insulin every day at the moment, but are working on her diet constantly and recording the results re the same.
Danno, who will be 3 in August suffered an allergic reaction to something in March, the worst I have ever seen (See my blog 13-03-11) www.pedigreedogs.ie
In order to rule out any food ingredients we have him on the BARF diet for the last 3 weeks, and must say he is looking great on it, and although early to say, seems more relaxed within himself. We have been advised to keep him on this for another 5 weeks at least.
This type of feeding does take a bit of getting used to, and at the start does take more time to prepare, but once you have a system in place, feeding time doesn’t take much longer than with the commercial food.
Regarding the light and sensitive feed, we are currently giving this to our other 2 Dachshunds as well, and must say, we have seen a great improvement in overall condition.
I pointed this out to a fellow exhibitor at Saturdays Dog show, whereby I ran my hand against the grain all the way along Daisy’s back, and not one speck of dry skin could be detected on her glossy black coat.
And if that isn’t enough, she got Best Of Breed, and third in group 4 !
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