She slept all day. Didnt really get up when i got home. We fed her late but she didnt eat it. Wich really isnt that abnormal fir her.Left the food down for her. She got up at some point during the night and ate.
Gonna call the vet tomorrow and see if he wants to see her and see if we can finally do something with the lump.
What do you guys think of that fresh pet food? It doesnt have anything as far as preservatives and shit in the ingredients but nothing saying how much carbs or anything in it.
There was a very famous experiment in which they fed cats raw meat, raw milk, and cod liver oil, which they determined to be the ideal diet. They were very healthy, shiny coats, wet nose, clear eyes. Then they fed them the same diet, but cooked it (which destroys the natural enzymes and makes it harder to digest), those cats could not survive 3 generations. They were smaller, their coats not so healthy, etc. Dogs and cats are meant to eat wild game, uncooked. Try feeding your dog raw meat.
The petfood industry is a multi billion dollar industry and from what I hear very profitable for the giant corporations. Much like with what goes on in the healthcare industry they are not going to tell us or let us discover the real truth. The truth would kill their money making schemes.
Ditto this. There are many anecdotal videos I’ve seen about healing animals with pure meat diets. Expensive but maybe worth a try.
Agreed! They are poisoning fur babies with poor grade pet foods and vaccines! Pet cancer has exploded exponentially in the last 30 years.
Raw food diets are the best they were meant to eat and the way they ate in the wild. In the old days pets are the scraps of what their humans ate and that was much healthier than commercial pet food.
Check out:
TheTruthAboutPetCancer.org
This was the work of Dr. Pottenger. His famous book is "Pottenger's Cats". All of the above is true. BUT I fed my two dogs raw hamburger and raw eggs for several years and one of my two dogs developed bladder stones from the high purines. Be careful. Beef is too strong.
Thank you. I spoke with nutritionist Edu Erasmus who wrote the book "Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill" about that research. He said it was very famous. Enzymes are crucial in breaking down the food we eat. Cooking the food, kills the enzymes and it hampers the digestive process. I know breeders who switched from Iam's and Science dog foods, and started feeding their dogs raw meat scraps and the dogs got healthier. It's food for thought.
This, but thoroughly freeze any raw meat you purchase then defrost it. That will kill any parasites that reside in the meat
You might find a butcher who will give you scraps.
Okay, but what is the experiment? Is there a link to the data?
Forgive me for not just upvoting as others have done, but I want to see data.
I have a healthy level of skepticism for the raw diet craze because the rationale for the diet rarely goes beyond is "this is what they would eat in the wild".
Dogs are not Wolves. They are not wild animals. There are substantial genetic differences between the two, and as it pertains to diet they have substantial differences in genes and gene copies as it relates to processing starches and carbohydrates.
Numerous studies have been done on cooking meats and vegetables for humans. Raw is not always better, especially when it comes to vegetables. It's a mixed bag as cooking releases certain nutrients and destroys others. Raw preserves certain nutrients but withholds others. Cooking meat releases far more nutrition than raw. The discovery of fire and cooking meat is part of what allowed us to evolve larger brains.
Why does this matter? Again, dogs have as much in common with humans as they do with wolves when it comes to processing food types.
Now, as it pertains to 94f's girl and her current situation, there is some good human data that points to carbohydrate reduction having a positive impact on cancer outcomes. I'm all for that because there's good research that supports it.
But raw, grain free diets have some serious warning signs. Furthermore, changing this dog's diet to raw while she's already dealing with serious discomfort due to her health problem could cause severe gastro distress. That's the last thing this girl needs right now.
Sorry to be a wet blanket here guys, but I strongly disagree with this post.
We had a Bernese live to 11 on raw food. Every other one of his 9 littermates died before 5 or so. So that's a mini-experiment.