Posted on March 19, 2010 by: WayCoolDogs

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How often have we heard about bad commercial dog food being pulled from the market? By the time it hits television and the media, our dog has already eaten a month or of the “bad stuff”. And not all of the food being pulled was cheap food either. What’s that tell you?

More and more people are starting to make their own dog food….and as they should. If they don’t wash their hands before making their dog his supper and the dog gets salmonella, guess whose fault it is? That doesn’t bother me nearly as much as 2,000 miles away strangers are not following routines practices of washing hands and being sanitary. Oh well. Just another food being recalled….and the lists keep coming. What’s so hard about washing your hands after toileting or playing in the dirt?

Facts about low cost healthy dog food

• In 1930, Paul Kouchakoff (a French chemist) discovered that once food is cooked or processed, white blood cells speed abnormally toward the intestines while disrupting the entire  immune system. Called digestive leucocytosis.
• Always begin a meal with something raw for your dog (carrots or green beans, for example). Once that first bite is eaten, leucocytosis does not occur even when eating cooked food afterwards because the body only responds to that first bite of food.

• If you or your dog is planning on eating raw fish that has been caught fresh within the last hour or so, scald it in hot water for a few minutes to soften its skin—making sure the entire head is used as it is highly full of vitamins and nutrients.

• Dog breeds who have developed throughout history on fish should be fed fish often (Portuguese water dogs, Newfoundlands, Arctic sled dogs, and Scandinavian breeds). At a minimum, feed it three to four times a month. The best canned fish for these dogs  is sardine. As far as canned tuna goes, feed dogs only the oil/water from the tuna can as tuna has been known to be toxic to dogs.

• The avocado is extremely healthy for dogs as it supplies the needed fat the dog needs. By adding a little unrefined sea salt, the oil from the vegetable will be assimilated better into the dog’s system.

• Any dry commercialized dog food that is stored for long periods of time becomes rancid, an extremely serious problem in fats and oils in commercial dog food.  Also, a lot of the meat and by-products that are added to commercialized dog food are rancid before it is even processed.

• Dogs who are on a well-balanced raw food diet are less likely to develop food allergies than dogs who eat commercialized dog foods.

• Do not feed your dog liver, considered an organ meat, unless you know for a fact the animal was organically raised. The job of the liver in a body is to remove toxins, with many toxins remaining.

• Kidneys do the same function as the liver—filtering toxins from the body. Try to stay away from it unless it is organic.

• Grain foods without proper digestion and enzyme assimilation of carbohydrates are being studied as the cause of dog diabetes, pancreatitis, digestive tract disorders, allergies and chronic immune disorders. (The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care, by CJ Puotinen, 2000)

• Goat or cow milk is excellent for dogs unless it is sweetened condensed milk, long-shelf life, septic-packaged, condensed, homogenized, or pasteurized. Any kind of milk that has been heated above body temperature should be a concern.  The best milk to use is raw milk or the organically raised milk.

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