Up until about 20 years ago many canines could still get decent nutrition from eating table scraps. But, with the introduction of modern technology, both the quantity and the quality of usable scraps have significantly declined.
Most meats are sold already boned and trimmed and are carefully wrapped in cardboard and cellophane ready to be cooked […]

Animal Fats
While nearly all animal fats include just as many calories as vegetable oils, only two contain essential fatty acids in amounts adequate enough to supply a dog’s nutritional needs. These are the fats from pigs, normally called lard, and horse fat. The tallow of beef and mutton should never be used as the […]

Milk and cheese are probably the only important sources of calcium and phosphorus among the many foods that are not fed as often as they should to dogs. Magnesium can be found in nuts and beans and potassium is in almost any natural ingredient. Most other trace minerals in a natural diet are derived […]

Vegetables - While a few vegetables may serve as natural vitamin sources, most vegetables have little nutritional value to a dog as a dog can only digest about 30 to 50 percent of most of the vegetables we eat. Since many vegetables are mostly all water what little roughage they may contain can just […]

There are some dog feeders who foolishly insist that meat is the only thing a dog should ever eat. Of course, feeding meat alone is entirely inadequate proper canine nutrition. The foremost deficiency in an all meat diet is the lack of calcium. Meat that has been trimmed of fat is also likely […]

Eggs - Eggs for feeding your dogs can be bought by the dozen at your local grocery store, by the hundreds from egg hatcheries and by the thousands from egg ranches.
No matter where you get your eggs they should never be fed to a dog raw as raw egg whites react with the vitamin […]

A dog should be fed by the same person at every feeding if possible. This is not nearly as important when several house pets are being fed by different members of the same family as it is when a large number of dogs are being fed by many different kennel personnel.
It is especially applicable […]