Dog allergies
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Save Money on Dog Food and Receive a Healthy Pet
All of us are worried about the economy and the cost of dog food for allergic pets.
One of the essentials for me is feeding my dogs. I cut back on everything I can but going to the vet is very expensive and the food for allergies are typically around $56.00 per large bag and around $24.00 per case of canned hypoallergenic dog food.
This is a healthy dog
That is too much for me to pay right now. It is too much to pay when you have to pay the electric bills and the rent and the bare necessities. So I cook for myself and at the same time cook for my dogs.
Here is what I cook for me and my dogs. It’s really quite simple. I go to Costco and get those giant bags of broccoli. I hope you don’t hate broccoli because it has some of the most powerful anti cancer properties of all the vegetables.
I steam broccoli and cauliflower in a big batch, chop it and put into containers. I buy some peeled carrots and steam them and chop.
I buy chicken breasts without bones because you are not paying for skin, bones, fat and it’s fast and easy to prepare. I can poach it or boil it. Don’t cook too long or it will get dry. Remember it doesn’t have very much fat at all.
After the chicken has cooled, I chop it up. I put part of it into containers for myself and the rest for my dogs.
Now I have a good mixture of cancer fighting vegetables and good low fat protein.
For my dinner I make a salad of chopped apples, shredded carrots, sliced celery and some of the chicken breasts.
For the dogs dinner I mix together the chicken, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower together and add a tiny bit of dry kibble if you can afford it. Kibble is mostly corn or wheat so it’s not essential for a dogs diet but it will stretch the food you prepare for them.
Something interesting has happened since I started cooking for my dogs. They seem to love what I cook and their coats are shinier and their eyes are sparkling and ears pricked. And most importantly, their bouts with allergies has lessened.
You will have to experiment with the vegetables because your dog just might have an allergy to one of them so try them out and see what works.
Good luck in these hard times.
Dog Nutrition play a huge part in controlling allergies
Dog food nutrition.
Since the dog food recall more and more owners are asking themselves just how nutritious is the pet food they buy.
They are also looking at alternatives to pet shop pet foods and scrutinizing the labels trying to find the best natural dog food.
They want to know what exactly what is in the dog food they purchase and if it has enough nutrition for a healthy dog.
I believe the dog food manufacturers that don’t pay attention to consumers and their concerns will pay a heavy price at the cash register. Simply put, we will not buy dog food that doesn’t have good ingredients in it. In fact we will boycott it and tell our friends not to buy it.
There are many articles written about holistic dog nutrition and I have something to say about them. My dog has been eating holistic dog food for many years and has been a picky eater. He has always had food allergies and finding a dog food that agrees with him has been hard. I fed him bench and fields for quiet a while and thought I was giving him the very best food because it said it was a Holistic dog food.
What I didn’t realize was that most all dog food out there had wheat and corn in it. You know, the poisoned wheat from Canada and the bio-engineered corn from the USA. That was never a good idea and we all knew it but couldn’t stop it. When my dog got really sick during the dog food recall, my dog food manufacturer quietly took some of it’s dog food off the shelves and came up with a new formula that doesn’t include wheat or corn.
What an improvement! My dog started eating more, had less incidents of illness and started playing again. I decided the culprits were wheat and corn. What works for my dogs is Hills Prescription diet of duck and potato. This new dog food replaced others they had on the shelves. They removed Hill’s gravy so I substituted Hill’s ID. I hope you can also find the right dog food for you dog as I did. Just because it works for my dog doesn’t mean that Hill’s foods will work for yours. Every dog is different and you should work with your vet to find the best natural food for your pooch.
What your pet’s ancestor ate
Let’s pretend we’re looking in on an average day of a dog in the wild, the ancestor of today’s dogs.
He wakes up to the dawn. It might be raining, snowing or a bright clear day. Today’s dog would stretch, get up, walk over to his dog food bowl and either bang it around or whine because he wants food.
How let’s look at this dog’s ancestor. Quite another story This wild ancestor wakes up to anykind of weather, looks around for the kill he made the day before to find it gone. Some animal made off with it during the night. So he gets up and begins his day hunting for food and that means exercise and lots of it.
Read more about how dog’s ancestors got their nutrition from the food they hunted
