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We have become
increasingly concerned at the early age cancers in our beloved breed.
We are also very concerned, as are most of us, at the rising
incidence of Hip and Elbow displaysia.
We can logically
only attribute the shorter life span of our breed today (to what it
was 20 years ago) to either food, water or air. What else is
there? These intakes are the most likely logical catalysts for
cancer. Since there is nothing we can do about the air, we have left
that issue alone, but we have diligently tried in our Rottweilers to
achieve a betterment of the other two likely problem candidates; the
food and the water. We try to let our dogs drink only filtered water,
but most of our effort is in their diet. We feed the B.A.R.F. diet
consisting of raw meat, vegetables, fish, bones and raw
uncooked chicken wings, backs and necks.
We do not feed any
dog food. When traveling canned fish etc is available at
supermarkets, as are fresh vegetables. Or take your own raw food and
ground frozen veggies, frozen in a cooler. It lasts that way for
about 4 days. And try to stay in a hotel with a refrigerator or
preferably a freezer.
We find this diet
helps dramatically in the look of the Rottweiler coats, their teeth
are clean and white, their muscle tone is better, their attentiveness
increases, their eyes are brighter, and their stools are firmer. They
are healthier all around.
We add supplements
to their diets; we prefer giving Shaklee vitamins, and Barleans
Borage Oil, Cod Liver Oil, Omega Fish oil and Barleans Flax Seed oil,
and Hemp oil etc
We are lucky to
have many health food supermarkets and chicken farms in our area so
we buy only hormone free and antibiotic free meat, bones and chicken
parts, whenever possible.
We have learned so
much from the following books:
BARF
Diet
Dr. Ian Billinghurst
Give Your Dog a
Bone
Dr. Ian Billinghurst
Grow Your Pups
with Bones Dr. Ian Billinghurst
Available at http://www.barfworld.com
or (866) 282 2273
Email: barfdiet@ix.net.au
AND:
Food Pets Die
For:
Ann N. Martin
Protect Your
Pet:
Ann N. Martin
http://members.home.net/anmartin1
Available at New
Sage Press www.newsagepress.com
Email: info@newsagepress.com
or (503) 695 2211
Or through your
local bookstore
Before I place a
puppy the potential owners must read the BARF Diet and Food Pets Die for.
To see some of the
latest ideas about processed dog food, and why we don't feed it
please see:
www.king5.com/localnews/investigators/NW_050202INKdogfood.4c444655.html
or
http://www.api4animals.org/doc.asp?ID=79
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