http://petproblemsolved.com.au/blog/2010/03/blogging-about-blogging-no-comment/ about pets & people Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:50:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://petproblemsolved.com.au/blog/2010/03/blogging-about-blogging-no-comment/#comment-877 GordonsCorner Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:16:42 +0000 http://petproblemsolved.com.au/blog/?p=715#comment-877 Hi there. I read on your website an answer to a question of why dogs perform coprophagia, and is correct in many instances. There are other reasons as well. I recently learned that one of my dogs may be possibly eating stranger dogs' stools due to a protein deficiency. That she could be not digesting her food all that well and not absorbing the macro nutrients properly, due to her villi possibly being damaged. In this case, digestive enzyme supplements may resolve the problem. Anyway, she never ate her own stool, nor her house mate's (My other dog). Only sometimes, at stools found in parks etc. I've been adding some supplemental enzymes in her food (Although she eats mainly raw which has naturally occurring enzymes), recently, and will test that theory out in the next month or so. I rescued her and kept her since she was 2 years old at the time and so I don't know what her diet was prior. I also read in your answer, that you consider Purina Pro Plan and One as a super premium food. I couldn't disagree more! It's kibble being dead and as far away from Nature's evolutionary intentional diet as possible. Not to mention that it is made up of cheap filler like grains and corn, which a dog was never designed to break down and digest properly. Since they lack the amylase salivary enzyme unlike us, and who don't munch on their food unlike us, and who have much shorter digestive tracts than us. But I'm sure you know all this being a Zoologist. I realise that Purina and Hills etc have funded numerous studies to prove their food ingredients are safe and beneficial. I know that most people want the convenience and just don't care enough, with the attitude that a dog's just a dog, but is not my attitude. A dog should be eating a diet as Nature intended. One indisputable and unequivocal fact is that Mother Nature can not be disproved that dogs have evolved and are designed to eat the diet of it's mitochondrial DNA shared wolf. That being high meat source protein and low carbohydrates. And no carbohydrates from high GI foods such as grains, but instead from vegetable and fruit matter, semi digested just like they are when found in tripe of the wolf's herbivorous ungulate prey. Many experts also believe such high sugar spiked kibble diets cause some of the bad canine behaviour. Just sharing some of my beliefs and opinions. Hi there. I read on your website an answer to a question of why dogs perform coprophagia, and is correct in many instances. There are other reasons as well. I recently learned that one of my dogs may be possibly eating stranger dogs' stools due to a protein deficiency. That she could be not digesting her food all that well and not absorbing the macro nutrients properly, due to her villi possibly being damaged. In this case, digestive enzyme supplements may resolve the problem. Anyway, she never ate her own stool, nor her house mate's (My other dog). Only sometimes, at stools found in parks etc. I've been adding some supplemental enzymes in her food (Although she eats mainly raw which has naturally occurring enzymes), recently, and will test that theory out in the next month or so. I rescued her and kept her since she was 2 years old at the time and so I don't know what her diet was prior. I also read in your answer, that you consider Purina Pro Plan and One as a super premium food. I couldn't disagree more! It's kibble being dead and as far away from Nature's evolutionary intentional diet as possible. Not to mention that it is made up of cheap filler like grains and corn, which a dog was never designed to break down and digest properly. Since they lack the amylase salivary enzyme unlike us, and who don't munch on their food unlike us, and who have much shorter digestive tracts than us. But I'm sure you know all this being a Zoologist. I realise that Purina and Hills etc have funded numerous studies to prove their food ingredients are safe and beneficial. I know that most people want the convenience and just don't care enough, with the attitude that a dog's just a dog, but is not my attitude. A dog should be eating a diet as Nature intended. One indisputable and unequivocal fact is that Mother Nature can not be disproved that dogs have evolved and are designed to eat the diet of it's mitochondrial DNA shared wolf. That being high meat source protein and low carbohydrates. And no carbohydrates from high GI foods such as grains, but instead from vegetable and fruit matter, semi digested just like they are when found in tripe of the wolf's herbivorous ungulate prey. Many experts also believe such high sugar spiked kibble diets cause some of the bad canine behaviour. Just sharing some of my beliefs and opinions.

]]> http://petproblemsolved.com.au/blog/2010/03/blogging-about-blogging-no-comment/#comment-374 Joanna Vroom Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:22:39 +0000 http://petproblemsolved.com.au/blog/?p=715#comment-374 Good blog Jo - interesting and you are right too. I don't mind beng the first to comment even if I don't have much to say except "Well done"! Good blog Jo - interesting and you are right too. I don't mind beng the first to comment even if I don't have much to say except "Well done"!

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