A Short Story About the History of Pet Food
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, Dr. Karen Becker the history of commercial pet foods, and what can be done to improve animal nutrition for future generations.
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I started feeding raw when one of my dogs was "written off" at the young age of 5. I bought Dr Karen Becker's book Real Food and my dog lived to be 12 without any medication other than homeopathic Traumeel for jojnts. My Jack Russell is now 16 and still going strong. Thanks to Karen Becker's newsletters.
Thank you, Dr Becker and Mercola Healthy Pets!
There's no doubt in my mind that feeding our pets just processed foods is detrimental to their health. We know processed foods are bad for us so why would we feed it to our pets? And why such push back and resistance from the vets and the pet food industry for people to feed healthier foods to their pets? Why instill so much fear and intimidation to pet parents for challenging the status quo of conventional dog foods? It all comes down to the mighty dollar. Feeding our pets healthier foods mean less $$ for the pet food industry and healthier pets mean less $$ for the medical industry.
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How do you find out if a pet food brand has been using condemned carcasses as a protein source?
Outstanding video 2 big thumbs up
Bravo! 👏
I've been struggling to make homemade dog food for decades for my dogs. My first dog to be fed homemade, I did homemade because she had multiple food allergies, and we couldn't find any brand of commercial dog food that she could tolerate. I used a supplement sold specifically to add to homemade ingredients that was supposed to make a complete and balanced diet for dogs. My dog went blind by the age of six years old from inadequate taurine. I tried repeatedly to switch her to a raw food diet, but she got sick, every single time, so I finally gave up on that.
With my next dog, I used gently cooked recipes from the book "Dr. Pitcairn's Natural Health for Dogs and Cats" that were supposedly AAFCO balanced. I tried repeatedly to switch her to a raw food diet, but she got sick every time, and I finally gave up on that after she got so sick that she almost died. That dog developed weight issues and eventually died from cancer, prematurely. I did put her on freeze-dried raw Keto dog food during the last four months of her life, but it was too little too late.
My current three dogs, I started out trying to feed them commercial freeze-dried raw, which they did great on, and didn't get sick from, but the price was so terribly expensive that I ended up switching to gently cooked with a base mix. They hate the base mix. I've tried twice now to introduce them to homemade raw, and they've started to get sick, both times.
Over the last three decades, I've tried repeatedly to do homemade raw, and tried all sorts of ways of doing it to try to prevent them from getting sick from it, but no matter what I try, I can't get it to work for us. So, I'm stuck with gently cooked. And I have not found a homemade recipe for dog food that I think is nutritionally adequate. All too often, they're too high in carbs, or they lack a source of calcium or iodine, or they only have canned green beans in them, or some other inadequacy. I've tried three different base mixes, and they've hated all three.
In spite of all these years of trying to make homemade dog food, I'm now more confused then ever, and so afraid of screwing up these little dogs. But everyone has different opinions. People showing how they make their own dogfood are a dime a dozen, but their recipes are not adequate. It's hard to hunt down factual information backed by research that isn't biased or loaded with vested interests, or poorly done. I know that most commercial dog food is junk, but the ones that are on the better end of the scale are so prohibitively expensive that I simply can't afford them anymore. I wish someone would simply tell us how to do it, instead of just telling us we need to do it, or charging an arm and leg that I can't afford to lose.
It's simple: feed what that species is eating in the wild, or close to that. And, you have too many if you can't afford to feed them.
@@alxdava2004 It's not simple, there's a lot of conflicting info, plus dogs and cats have evolved since leaving the wild plus our overall meat industry has a lot more communal diseases then wild, it's not apples to apples -- being an shtty to someone for not being able to make it work within their budget is asshole-y.
as the video states, there needs to be more studies so people can figure out what best to do for their income level.
Unfortunately there's so much more then food alone that effects health. Have you been following the research on cancer and weight and other health issues in gonad removed (traditional spay and neuter) compared to hormonally intact dogs? If your dogs were spayed/neutered, that could have contributed to it (though spay and neuter does reduce some issues, some research suggests it's not increasing some cancers and other diseases more then what it reduces). In the wild, many wolf pups would die early also -- in some respect, animals living to be elder is a human expectation more then reality... perhaps? Something been thinking of.
Gentle cooked may be option I'd go with if I got a dog because of the communal diseases (antibiotic resitent ecoli has been noted in raw fed dogs) --- as this video says, more research is needed so we all gotta experiment with our own and our pets lives ;/
soft water people! mix it in wet food!
Thanks for informative video
I'm still feeding my cat kibble as that's what she used to and she's supplementing her diet with raw rats (who live under and feed on an giant avocado tree). But next mammal pet I think I'd not do the kibble likely -- I've been thinking heavily of the animal welfare of the meat industry (and eating less meat myself due to it), and the ecological impact of it all. Despite her impact of being indoor outdoor and risks and my phobia or rat corpses, her hunting and eating the rats is lot less ecological and animal welfare impact compared to her kibble -- outside impact of it being my home/yard already, her eating rats has no transportation impact, no agriculture impact [which impacts the ecosystem as removes habitation and food sources for birds and other animals], no animals crowded into too small area, no processing impact, the rats are invasive city rats, etc. [she doesn't get to the birds as far as I can tell, she's not into climbing and the only low done ones are hummingbirds]). Sometimes, I think we fail to see the animal and human welfare issues with our choices when it's occurring somewhere else, and taking the entire picture in to try and make the best choice can be really hard.