The Best and Worst Foods for Your Pet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2010
- healthypets.mercola.com/sites/... An integrative wellness veterinarian Dr. Karen Becker discusses her best-to-worst recommendations for diets for dogs and cats and explains how to improve the quality of the food you feed your own pet.
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I would have prefered for her to rate the store/vet brands of food as they are whats usually used and readily available.
Pets deserve proper nutrition just as we, their humans, do! People who truly care for their pets will listen to Dr. Becker!
This needs more views! I wish more vets were like you.
be nice if she gave us a list of dry/wet foods!
THANK YOU for stating cats AND dogs are carnivores. I feel like the commercial pet food companies are trying to sway the fact into getting people to think dogs are omnivores so they can get away with selling inferior products full of little meat and lots of carbohydrates.
Just because dogs will eat anything, and can simply survive on a wider range of on-animal foods, doesn't mean they are omnivores. They are anatomically carnivores just like cats.
Also thank you for stating a raw diet is best
Recommendations for where to find home-made balanced raw diet recipes...?
When the list of foods actually start @3:28.
@oneacd
I'm also interested in the moisture thing. I work in a pet store, and have done nutrition training for each of the big superpremium foods (waltham, hills, royal canin etc) and while I understand that they want me to sell their product, so they training I have recieved comes from biased sources, each and every single company reccomends their dry product over their wet. Most of them only make a wet due to popular demand.
There are many pet food cookbooks out there. Some where you cook the homemade food and some where the homemade recipe is left raw. Of these cookbooks, how do I know which ones are offering balanced homemade recipes?
@ziomararamirez Hello I strongly recommened two things that can help boost your doggie's health. #1. I Give your dog multi-vitamin. #2. Go out and have a daily quick walk for about 15-20 minutes. ( This strongly works: Take your dog to the beach and take a nice walk at most once a week. In my experience, My dog was suffering from depression and once took my doggie a walk to the beach and her depression got alot better.
I personally have my dog on a raw meaty bones diet (with supplements since I won't feed veggies). Less then 2 years ago, he was morbidly obese at 26 pounds, had no energy, and completely BROWN teeth. Now, he's 8 years old and is in such good shape that he's often mistaken for a Doberman puppy (he's a JRT/Min Pin). He also has far more muscle mass for his size then any other dog I've ever seen.
Quite frankly, a balanced raw diet saved my dog's life.
Your so very awesome-OMG your video content, truths and your ability to speak as you do is great-thanks for showing us how to properly BEST care for our tiny loved ones!
wow very informative. thank you very much
Very informational. Thank you for dedicating you time to put this video together. Nice to hear a vet that loves her career. I wished that you were in Miami.
Great info! Thanks!
Yeah, it will help with the moisture part, but just remember that kibble is still processed so not the best.
the raw meat in stores worries me, yes wild dogs will kill their prey and eat it immediately, store bought meat isn't quite that fresh and after all the handeling it could be contaminated. isn't that why we cook it first?
Your videos are very helpful, thank you. I am also trying to be self aware of what I feed my pets, but I, like many have the right intentions but are mislead or uneducated. Definitely learned a lot from this video, I am starting to feel like I will never find the right "dry dog food" for my pup, probably better off to feed him actual meats huh?
Can you feed a high quality dry kibble but moisten it with either a bit of water or broth?
@touchxOFxpinkxO Found some Purina ones the other day with high fructose corn syrup, ... Not enough that the people in this country are dying from obesity and diabetes....let's do it to our animals now too! I was looking into buying a quick bag of food that night till I could get to the pet store. THAT'S the night I came home and started looking for alternatives. Please people, you read labels for your food, do it for your pets. I knew it wasn't good, but how DARE companies add that crap!
please provide examples as i have no idea of what your talking about?
Hello Dr. Becker, thanks for your advise. Our 4 yr old cat never drinks out of her ceramic water dish (always with fresh water), sometime I see her drinking from the toilet bowl. But somehow her litter box always has many clumps of clumped litter in it. Where does she get her fluid. We feed her IAMS dry food and bagged semi moist "Temptations". Any idea?
Sad thing is, totally didn't realize that was a thing
@ Dr. Becker, continued,
after oldest cat started throwing up in 2005, is when i got started getting sick a lot which is not normal for me, colds, flu's, staff, strep....
then in 2008 dx with some auto-immune condition, widespread severe neuropatic pain/spasms, said is fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, dr said was from chronic pain from back/neck injury.....but i also had spontaneous vomitting during in 2009 for 6-7 months.
good point, but what then can we do? living off the land like the Amish would be the best but thats just not feasible right now! any other suggestions?
Their digestive tracts are not like ours. They are shorter, highly acidic so that they can melt down a raw bone to nothing, and not susceptible to the bacterias that would ace us with a quickness.
@ Dr. Becker,which i contributed to tap water here, i usually had bottled water, as when i do not drink the tap water, and since i do not get sick to stomach like that, but dr at time told me digestive issues were common with these conditions.
i notice mold grows quickly in toilet along water lines, and we keep these closed so cats cannot drink from them but they have a few times. wondering if also could be human to animal disease or vice-versa possibly involved
I been feeding my cats Indigo Moon Solid Gold brand dry food. It is holistic, my cats gobble it up and they appear healthy. As for the dry food dehydration issue... I don't see it. I keep a bowl of fresh (changed twice a day) filtered water available always. They lap it up as needed. But yes, I do agree that homemade is best. There are some good YT videos on homemade recipes and definitely NO supermarket dry pet food.
Your cat may be dehydrated, feed either raw food (after a lot of research, of course) or canned food. Canned food is just as nutritious but higher in moisture. Also make sure to feed only a grain free food, Iams is very low quality. Try wellness, Blue buffalo wilderness, orijen, taste of the wild, etc.
Drinking from the toilet bowl could also be thirst caused by diabetes, I would get your cat tested for it.
I just rescued a Chipom., she is 2.5 lbs. I had her on puppy chow and Nutra small breed can food and she has gas really badly. What is the best brand of human grade can food for puppies? Thank you!
I have a 2 yr. old Yorkie, right now he seems to be scratching and biteing his feet. He has never done this before. I give alot more attention to him. Just incase he is bored. But, I really think that it,s his food. My little fella is not feeling to good these days. Could you can recommend a healthy food with everything in it? So I can stop this itching. Then i,ll take him ti his vet. Money is really tight these days. I,m so happy we have Dr. Mercola. Answer asap please.
.....i kno it will def help and giv the best chance for the dog, i hav been ever so careful with my dogue de bordeaux in the 1st year of life not to feed to much so to keeo her weight dwn whilst her bones grow n strengthen,now she is 13mnths i am feeding her very well n tryin to giv raw diet all the time as financially possible,i hope i havemt undernourished her in 1st yr, i did feed a lower protein high quality complete dry food,jus didnt feed excessive like sum do to get big macho dog.......
OHHH OWWW!!! You did it ! Thank you this help. I feed my dogs food from the Vet.
what about Orijen??
What do you recommend feeding if a cat his crystals? One of my cats had crystals and ended up blocked but I REFUSED to feed the vet Rx diet (and I work for a vet) I continued feeding the dry I was feeding (Evo) but I added A LOT of water to the dry and added in canned and didn't have issues afterwards.
Hi can you give us some recepis?? please.
I have a few packs of both dog and cat food in the semi-moist packs... Wellness & Nutro. There is NO propylene glycol in either. Does this mean it is safe?
Vegan food either contains warnings that the animals can die or it has tiny text saying that the freeze-dried veggies are only supposed to be supplemental, and that meat should be added. Having worked with animals all of my life, I have never seen a dog or cat thrive on vegan food. They have to be switched back and then the companies cop out because of the tiny-print warnings that most people don't bother to read.
how do we find out whats the best then, like, what changes would the worst on the list need to be made the best.
1st comment shud bin, do u think raw diet can eliminate dysplasia even tgo it is genetic trait of mastiffs, i hav bin very careful 1st yr of her life not to gain alot of weight, also was careful not to exercise too much approx 5-10mins exercise per mnth she is,so 5 mnths 25-40 mins walking or 15-20 runnin about,i do giv her cod liver oil n chrondatine supplements,wish had thought about crushed bones for calcium,hopin her diet csn prevent ir reduce dysplasia,as it wud break my hear,luv her so muc
didnt you hear her? raw is better. my dog's tempermant has gotten so much better with in the last month of feed him raw and i have had for for 12 years, hes going to be 13 this month. i fed him poison( kibble) for the 12 year his life. your dog will enjoy it much better and he will love your more!
Wow! You talk so fast I have to constantly rewind :O) I have the "Real Food for Healthy Dogs and Cats" book, but in it it says that if we have a dog 'who need limited ingredients...the mineral and fat balance of this plan will not be adequate...' One of my Yorkies suffers from Pancrititis. Would the recipe book be inadequate for him as well?
@ Dr. Becker,so a few questions there, just not sure where to start. food, supplement, blood test at vet, etc?? as i am on very limited disability income, i want my cats healthy, but not spending more than i am for their food, or unnecessary vet tests, etc...would like to rule things out step at a time funny my biological name, before mother remarried and adopted was Becker :^) have to start with my 1st post about 5 posts down for start 2 end due to character limit had to put in more than 1 post
@ Dr. Becker,however my oldest cat was throwing up the yr before moving in here, so 2007,, and that is when we got the other cats jan 2008,
2 yrs later now the other 2 cats are throwing up.
i always keep the water fresh and clean bowl and use brita for them, as well as clean food dish.
wondering if got oldest tested then would know what others have, also should mention my girlfriend also developed auto immune fibromyalgia and chronic fatgue yr after me in 2009.
Many of the raw feeders I know just wing it which is a waste IMO. If you are going to make your dog's food, either get a degree in Nutrition or follow an approved diet plan. You should probably also raise the meat animals yourself so you avoid the hormones and byproducts in commercial meats. I'd also like to know which study showed the information on the required moisture content of food. What if I add water to dry kibble at roughly 70%. Is that the same? Was this covered by the study?
can you tell us how to feed them better? i try to feed them meats, fats, bones,and organs. and i just try to keep them at a even ratio. Is that okay?
i love your videos
@ Dr. Becker,
i feed our 3 cats California Naturals chicken and brown rice formula, is quite expensive, now my oldest cat 7yrs started throwing up a few yrs ago about 5 yrs old, asked vet said prob nervous stomach?
now the other 2, one of which is outside in non winter months in Alberta Canada, are also throwing up in this last yr.
sometimes the food is barely digested, sometimes it is mostly paste like. def not hairballs and happens too often compared to any cat had before.
any suggestions?
No kibble digests at a different rate then raw so they need to be fed seperately. This may very well cause bloat in your dog. What kind of Raw beef are you feeding anyways? Please no ground beef, aka pink slime.
Cats get most of there water from the food they eat. They don't have a drive to drink water like we do when where thirsty. cats come from the Desert where there is little water and some cats are just stubborn.
Also, you missed one diet that a lot of breeders happen to use and (unfortunatly) recommend. Wheat-bix and milk! (Shouldn't this be at the bottom of the list?
I thought by #6 she meant stuff like Wellness and holistic formulas (which my cats eat.)
Cats naturally are supposed to get almost all of their water from their food (because naturally cats would eat raw meat). On cats nutritional labels they will indicate "moisture content" because it is so important. Dry food contains, on average, 10% moisture, while wet canned food is about 80%. I don't believe cats don't have as strong of an urge to drink water like we do, because they naturally would get it from their food, so they often drink less than they actually should on dry food.
It is misleading to group cats with dogs in this video without pointing out very important differences. Cats are obligate carnivores, they MUST have a high meat diet. That meat must be raw or must be CAT food which has TAURINE added back in to it that is destroyed by cooking. Humans and dogs don't need to ingest this amino acid as the liver makes it from others. Cats are very different to dogs.
Sorry but your cat got sick, was taken to the vet and somewhat recovered.
But when promptly returned to your home and again got sick?
Sounds like there is more to the story.
Old food from the neighbors feral cats?
Are the feral cats otherwise healthy?
Could there be something in or around your home that can contribute to the illness? Did something change?
I'm at 6 and 7 as well. I'm gonna take a look at #3, my cats like a little cooked meat as an occasional treat (unseasoned of course). At 1.59 a can it may well be worth the switch. I'd try #1 but I would be afraid of salmonella, etc. =)
i only feed my dog and cat dry food but they have water so doesnt that make up for the moister? i feed them both nutro natural dry food, should i avoid grains in their food?
well, ideally you should mix the meat and veg together so they can't pick and choose... like grind it together
Where is the balance when my dog eats only the meat and leaves the vegetables allone? When in dryfood each granule contains the same composition, my dog can not be selective... Seems like dryfood is more in balance then.
Why is Propylene Glycol so bad? It is approved for use in human products from toothpaste to shampoos and makeup products. It is even used in some inhalers and nebulizers.
Just curious why it is bad for dogs if it is allowed for humans?
No they are opportunistic Carnivores, which means they eat mostly meat but will consume vegetation such as gut content from their prey. Corn is not a proper protein for dogs or cats.
They said the cat died from being weakened by the illness, not that they were cured and got ill again.
im at #6 and #7, cant do better than that :(
How can feeding our pets factory farmed, diseased animals be a good idea? None of these animals (the pets nor the factory farmed cows, pigs, etc) are natural. Making arguments based on nature without some admission that the whole system is unnatural to begin with is faulty.
Also, important but left out is the reality of the 4-d's in commercial pet food: farm animals who are down, dead, diseased, or disabled. How sad that these animals who are tortured get no thought as you obsess over pet food
Of course they are the same species. They can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. That doesn't mean they eat the same since (as I noted before) they occupy entirely different ecological niches, behave differently, raise their offspring differently and have different reproductive cycles. I have read the raw food myths and some make good sense and some are rationalizations. Its a good site. I've bookmarked it and will check often. Right now I don't want to fix what ain't broke.
Great Video....very informative, not bad looking either lol
then how and why do they allow those people to make "vegan pet food"?
isn't that abuse? or allowed like how we have junk food.
Dogs and wolves occupy entirely different ecological niches so that argument doesn't wash. That's like saying that fruit bats and vampire bats are the same animal so should eat the same thing. I'm not against raw, I just haven't heard a sound scientific argument for it yet. "Common sense" don't cut it.
@mettaliccasux Both purina and science diet are low on protein content too, hell blue buffalo is better infact much better then either
thats why my dog is on a raw diet.processed dog food is terrible for dogs.i take my four rottweilers to to the vet and they say that there in good health becauseof their raw diet
@phillyhippie Yes avoid grains, blue buffalo wilderness is a good way to go, it is the same price wise as nutro from my understanding and can be bought at petsmart or petco
Why?
never ever give a dog turkey its bad for them
Those people shouldn't own a cat or dog.
the wrong meeting stores worries me dogs in nature would kill their prey and then eat it immediately . meat in stores is not as fresh,
dogs= omnivores. cats= carnivores
What about pedigree?
Brush their teeth and give then Nylabone or raw bones to chew on.
What about people that feed vegan food with no meat and all corn, carbs and fillers? =S
fuck - could she be more ambiguous
science diet sucks!
so not true.
Dogs and cats will thrive and live 25-30 years thats a lie raw food is okay but maken them live longer thats another story and it has nothing to do with the dog food
That's about as healthy as feeding them rat poison.
do u really know wtf your talking about? sounds like you read all this out a book.
They Arent Carnivores LADY there omnivores -_-