We have started giving FD1, our dog, raw bones to chew on, after years of giving her the formulated chewsticks from the supermarket, brand names which are good for her teeth, but I am not sure much else to be honest, we bought her some meat with bones on it. For me this is a good way for her to get some enzymes from raw foods, as she won’t eat that much raw food generally, no matter how much I try to tempt her. She will be getting the rest of the meat later cooked, with rice, pearl barely and veggies, but watching her she has loved chewing on these bones, far more than the fake chewsticks that we normally get her.
We are so conditioned away from doing this for our dogs nowadays, being told how dangerous they are if they splinter. But having read about it, I found that they are a fantastic source of nutrients for our dog, and far better for her teeth being totally natural. They contain (naturally derived of course rather than synthetic), vitamins A, B, C, D, E, and minerals Iron, Magesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Selenium, Sodium, Sulfur, Chromium, and Zinc, and this dogs chew doesn’t come with a label stating how it has EU allowed additives!
I had never even thought about the fact that years ago this is what people would of done for their dogs, thrown their bones out to them. Why are we not doing this anymore, and instead buying them fake blue, green and red chewie sticks and believing manufacturers that what they are making is helping my dogs health?
I hear so many of my dog walking friends who have dogs with illnesses now that align to our own, this has to be down to the lifestyles and foods that they are feeding them. Most can not believe that I make my dog her food and don’t just buy it ready made. Only one of my friends also makes her dogs natural food, and her dogs like mine, look superb on it, she is in her late 70’s and this is what she tells me she has always done, as she has always had dogs. The thing I really notice now about bought dog food it how awful it smells, the food I make for FD1 smells like the food we are eating and actually palatable. But when I smell some of the food that my friends are giving to their dogs, I really wonder how long it will be before that dog is showing signs of ill health.
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