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 from the natural ingredients themselves.

Liver - Newborn puppies that are dying from the ”failing puppy syndrome” have often been revived by adding a tablespoonful of chopped liver to their mother’s diet. Overnight, the pups will snap out of it and start gaining weight again. Orphaned puppies that have been stunted because their formula is inadequate will benefit by having a little liver puree added to their formula.

A young adult male, starting his second year at stud is listless, uninterested, and underweight but by adding a daily teaspoon of raw liver to their diet returns the stud to his original luster and aggressiveness.

A dog struck by an automobile fails to respond even though surgery has successfully corrected any injuries. About a week after the operation a tablespoonful of liver is prescribed three times weekly and by the end of the third week all of the dog’s lost weight has been regained and the healing of any external wounds is complete.

All of the dogs above had one thing in common; liver was added to their daily diet. Maybe liver should be called a miracle food than a mystery food but whatever you call it the recoveries just described were the results of liver and whatever it is that enables liver to produce such ”miracles” remains a mystery for now.

For many years veterinary nutritionists have referred to the ”unidentified liver fractions” and their seemingly miraculous curing effects. Whatever it is in liver, known or unknown, few canine nutritionists deny that liver does add something special when it comes to a dog’s diet. If there is one single food that every dog should have in its diet, that food would have to be liver.

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