What do I mean by healthy food? Most dogs are fed a processed food diet with the result that something like 75% of the canine population are obese. The most common health problems in pets today are diabetes and dental decay. Many dogs now suffer from the very same health complaints that humans have when eating a poor diet, heart disease, joint problems, behavioural difficulties...I could go on...however I think it's important to get to the point quickly here.
Shockingly most owners think they are feeding quality healthy food and it's not until I challenge their belief by asking them 'what is fresh or natural about your dogs food?' that they think about it. So GOOD is the social hypnosis that convinces them that processed junk food could be healthy ! YOU are not to blame, The pet food industry is worth billions of dollars currently making more than the tea and coffee market combined. Pet food makers can afford to spend lots on promoting (often being very misleading) their products using the latest techniques to draw you into buying...as a person trained in marketing, spin and hypnosis I recognise when an advert is using this...basically I can spot when I'm being hypnotised! The average person cannot.
So What Is Processed Food? how can you recognise it. If it's a dried biscuit 'so called' complete food, canned, baked with additives, man made or messed with in any way for someone to make money then it's processed 'junk' food Including some of the alleged 'holistic' brands.
How often do I hear this...My Vet Says I Must Feed Dried Food, Nothing else, no scraps and definately no HUMAN food. What would they say that for if it was bad for my dog???? Read the top paragraph again and ask yourself WHO is benefiting from your dogs' illnesses??? Not that I really blame vets, after all they only know the information given to them in training by the Pet Food Industry, unless they have an enquiring mind.... Baby fledgling vets with no experience tend to be the most obnoxious and pushy about their 'learnings' regarding feeding, they need to remember that when they qualify they set up a veterinary 'practice' in order to practice on their clients (yes folks thats your pet) and if they knew everything and were perfect I'm sure the RCVS would allow them to open a veterinary 'perfect'. How the hell can it be ethical for vets to push processed food, which is known to cause serious physical and mental health problems in HUMANS, and then make money off YOU and the suffering of your pet for giving this dodgy advice...this needs looking into and quickly.
Here are some of my favourite misdirection quotes, some by vets, to stop you feeding good things like raw food and bones to your dog.
1 Bones will stick in your dogs throat, stomach, it will choke or need an operation to remove them. Well TRUE,...shock horror if you feed COOKED BONES, when do dogs cook their food??? What you're not being told here is about all the other things that get stuck and need fishing out of dogs mouths, throats and stomachs, like bits of plastic toys chewed instead of bones, I know of at least one dog that died after splitting it's gullet from swallowing whole a dog biscuit, I know of dogs that choke on rawhide chews, a friend of mine had to have her dogs stomach opened up and then stapled back into place after the vet removed a soggy chew that attached itself to the dogs insides and caused a torsion.
Raw Bones keep your dogs teeth properly clean, how is it an option to have them cleaned under a potentially life threating anaesthetic and if you don't believe me about anaesthetic being dangerous then ask yourself, what do you have to sign a disclaimer accepting the risk of your pet dying for??
2 Your dog should not eat human food. Hilarious this one when you read the ingredients on complete dog food. Things like rice appear on the list, rice is a man made 'human food' when did you last see a dog planting rice in a paddy field?? Beet Pulp!! (basically sugar) I can't think of a time when I've seen wild dogs on any programme stopping to add sugar to their wildebeast supper, in fact when do dogs grow any crops, cook their food or use a can opener???
3 Raw Food causes your dog to have worms.....!!! Really only raw food??? Then how come your processed fed dog is being wormed monthly?
4 My all time favourite...You shouldn't feed raw as it gives them the taste for blood making them vicious, putting your children at risk.!!!
Very true the dog will get a taste for blood, the blood of cow, lamb, chicken, turkey, rabbit..see where I'm going with this? Unless you intend to start hunting children to chop up and feed to your dog it is not going to get the taste of human flesh and blood is it? In my opinion it is more likely for behavioural problems including agression to come out of a junk food diet .