Dog food-are these ingredients necessary?
Been comparing dog foods again as I'm trying to find a less expensive alternative to the Blue Basics we've been using. Blue Basics contains lots of ingredients like blueberries, cranberries, yucca, p...
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dturm wrote:
Also, the ability to digest and utilize food is in large part a function of the digestive system of the animal (not just the food itself). It is NOT a static situation, general health, GI disease and specific situations (stress) have a great effect on that function. It's not always the food.
Doug, DVM
The last year-and-a-half of Ike's life, his body somehow wasn't absorbing calories, but DID absorb nutrients?? I know that seems counterintuitive - but I tried several kinds of food to keep the weight on him, to no avail; yet his coat was incredibly thick and lustrous (thank God, because towards the end, he was pretty thin). And for all the hoopla about not feeding dogs grains - Ike did the best when fed a breakfast of a scrambled egg and a serving of Maple-and-brown-sugar oatmeal :-) Those carbs made him a happy boy for several hours....LOL!
Here he is patrolling the parking lot at the ripe old age of 14
