Everything About Dogs

Natural Dog Foods

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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 biotin and this prevents a dog from absorbing it. As a matter of fact, feeding raw egg whites to lab animals is the how research scientists produce biotin deficiency in the laboratory for experimental purposes.

Milk- There is much controversy over feeding milk to dogs. Milk has long been suspected of causing diarrhea and other digestive upsets in dogs. While it may cause these problems in feeding large amounts of milk if you only feed about two ounces of fluid milk or two tablespoons of dry milk for every pound of dog food you should have very few problems.

The value of the milk in a dog’s diet when fed in correctly far exceeds the risk of any problems it might cause. Milk supplies much needed calcium and phosphorus in the proper amounts, many vitamins and also a protein value which approaches the protein equivalent of whole eggs.

Cottage cheese - Cottage cheese consists of little more than the major protein fraction of milk casein. It does not have the same nutritional value as the protein of whole milk because the lactalbumin that is normally present in whole milk has been washed away in the whey.

The value of the protein in cottage cheese is comparable with that of horse meat and cottage cheese is a good and inexpensive source of quality protein for your dog.

Cheese - Another dairy product made from casein is cheese. Regular cheese, unlike cottage cheese, also contains a considerable amount of fat. It is this fat that makes cheese a valuable source of energy as well as protein.

Because cheese is made as a food for people and priced accordingly cheeses are among the more expensive protein sources for feeding a dog. If however you want to spend the extra money cheese is a something to consider feeding your dog.

Fish - Even though fish is not normally used in dietary formulations for dogs there is no logical reason to not consider it as a good protein source for a dog. Fish protein happens to be of the better protein values for the money and should be considered.

If you use fish be sure to always cook it before feeding it to your dog because the heat will destroy a chemical found in many fish that will destroys vitamin B1 (thiamine).

Feeding Your Dog is very important and should be fed by the same person every day.