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People today are becoming more health conscious. You may be more concerned about what you eat, and you may also worry about what you are feeding your dog. If you have ever compared dog food brands and realized how the food you feed your dog rates, you may have then wanted to begin feeding your dog a healthier alternative, suck as an all natural or organic dog food.

Dogs need many of the same things that we do, in order to be healthy. Foods that are healthy for people are often also healthy for our dogs. Just like us, our dogs require a diet based on healthy, lean protein such as lean beef or chicken, and especially organ meats. The Western Veterinary Conference, at itAaas 1994 meeting, confirmed that dogs also require many of the same vitamins that people do, such as vitamin E and C, as well as antioxidants to eliminate cancer causing free radicals from their bodies.

Our diets often rely heavily on unhealthy processed foods, that are preserved with dangerous chemicals, and many dog foods also contain the same problem ingredients. You can avoid this by purchasing all natural, organic foods for your dog. You should be sure to always check the label on the bag of dog food that you intend to purchase and evaluate it. You want your dog to eat a healthy, balanced diet, but you will realize after comparing several brands of commercial dog foods, that it can be extremely challenging to find just what you are looking for in a bag.

So how do you solve the problem? One way is to serve you best friend the same foods that you eat. When you cook a healthy, balanced meal for your family, simply prepare one additional serving for your pet. Do you have a dog that turns up its nose at carrots or turnips? Do the same thing I did when my child was small: put them in the blender and then mix them in with the meat loaf before you cook it. Your child or your pet never knows that he has eaten a healthy, balanced meal.

There is a simple guideline to make sure your dog is getting every thing he needs. One third of his diet should consist of one-half vegetables and one-half starches, like pasta or rice. The other two thirds of his diet should be made up of meat protein sources like chicken or lean beef.

It can be confusing at first for the pet owner to figure out how much to feed their dog this way, but you can simply start out by offering your dog the same amount of food that you always have in the past, and then notice how your dog acts after he has finished eating. You can increase his food a little bit if he seems overly hungry at first. Your dogAaas weight will be the key. ItAaas okay for a dog to lose some weight when being fed a healthy diet, but you donAaat want your dog to lose too much weight, or to lose weight too quickly. You can simply adjust his food accordingly.

Now is the time to make the switch to a healthier diet for your dog. Think about all the horrific stories in the news, over the last few years, of dogs who have tragically been killed or made terrible ill by commercial pet foods. You donAaat want to become one of those grieving pet owners.

As a member of your family, your dog deserves to be loved and cared for and kept healthy. We have begun to realize that our pet’s diet often is as unhealthy as our own diets have become. So I ask you once again to think of a healthy diet for your pet and then ask, \”How does your dog food brand compare?\

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