A very old stray {The Old Fella Story}
Went camping this weekend at a campground on the lake, had not been there for a few years. Once there I began to walk around looking at the different sites when I noticed a very old dog. He just lay t...
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If you want to get weight off the dog, WD food is NOT the way to do it. Feeding low fat/low protein food is the exact opposite of the way a dog should be eating to lose weight. Dogs are NOT designed to eat a lot of carbs, and they are natural "Atkins" dieters. The way that "light" dog foods are set up is to cut out the protein and fat they need, and leave in the carbs that require insulin that puts on FAT. Then they add a lot of fiber and other fillers, and the food tastes like garbage. Poor dog is starving from lack of real nutrition, and eating stuff that tastes like cardboard. It's all bad. Poor nutrition and excess insulin will only increase the body's tendency to hold onto weight.
If you wanted to get him on the absolute best thing, I'd say BARF (Bones And Raw Food) which is meat and a little bit of veggies, with appropriate supplements. Or if that is too radical a thought, a cooked meat and veggies diet with NO STARCHES ADDED.
Yes, it is more work or more money... there are prepared diets you can buy, or you could learn how to prepare what he needs. You hardly ever see a "raw food" dog that is overweight, because that stuff costs! I've found personally that I save as much in vet bills as I spend extra on food, though.
And on the (very high up there) side.... if you moved him to that kind of a diet he'd think he'd died and gone to heaven, and if you then do have to put him down, you'll know at least that his last days/weeks/months were made more enjoyable by really good food. And you know, dogs like really good food. They like it a lot. And knowing that my old dog is eating food that is really enjoyable and really healthy... that always makes me feel better.
If you wanted to get him on the absolute best thing, I'd say BARF (Bones And Raw Food) which is meat and a little bit of veggies, with appropriate supplements. Or if that is too radical a thought, a cooked meat and veggies diet with NO STARCHES ADDED.
Yes, it is more work or more money... there are prepared diets you can buy, or you could learn how to prepare what he needs. You hardly ever see a "raw food" dog that is overweight, because that stuff costs! I've found personally that I save as much in vet bills as I spend extra on food, though.
And on the (very high up there) side.... if you moved him to that kind of a diet he'd think he'd died and gone to heaven, and if you then do have to put him down, you'll know at least that his last days/weeks/months were made more enjoyable by really good food. And you know, dogs like really good food. They like it a lot. And knowing that my old dog is eating food that is really enjoyable and really healthy... that always makes me feel better.
