Overweight dogs & cats:
Predators should be thinner vs fatter, to maintain optimum health.
It is healthier for predatory animals to be even TOO SKINNY, vs TOO FAT. The opposite is true for grazers /animals of prey.
So carrying excess weight for your dogs & cats will create a taxing situation for heart, liver, kidney, joints and skeletal system, respiration, metabolism and shorten lifespan.
Their lives are comparatively short, and so we must make careful choices in this short amount of time.
Also, their diet is critical. Id like to recommend your consideration of raw food diets for your dogs and cats
We consider dogs as seniors by age 7 (1/2 of their life expectancy) and that is because the diet we used to feed (kibble-based diets particularly- and prior to today- improper ingredients) creates senior-hood maladies in their bodies early on. That is like us experiencing “old-age-symptoms” by age 40, vs 65+.
I feed and recommend, an all raw and all whole food diet. I can assist you with that transition if you’re interested. It increases life expectancy by 1 1/3 times kibble-fed counterparts. It also eliminates early onset “seniorhood” with increased quality of life during their authentic senior years. Added benefits are no fleas. No tartar on teeth, and a general resilience to disease and other parasites. Coat and fitness are the most obvious improved observations.
If you are still hooked into kibble – I recommend Blue Buffalo Wilderness Variety. I had this food independently tested. It’s rated as “advanced Nutrition”, but surpassed holistic nutrition and landed in therapeutic nutrition. I employ blue buffalo food to my raw diet 2x weekly.
A grain-free diet is paramount. Grains tend to create an internal pH of 7 (neutral =ideal for humans). Dogs should naturally have a pH of 6-6.5 (acidic). Grain fed dogs with then an altered pH, suffer a host of maladies since nothing in their bodies “hums right”
Past that, the bio-availability of nutrients decreases with every step of processing into becoming kibble nuggets. And, when we read food bag labels to evaluate what is a good or a not-good food, we’re looking at meat being the first (3) listed ingredients. Why not just go for the meat!
Dog diet:
•50% muscle meat / 3 different protein sources weekly
•25% organ meat
•25% raw bone *
*bone should always be fed raw! Never cooked! Cooked bones splinter and create choke and perforation hazards.
Safe bones:
•Large animal leg bones
•Vertebra and ribs from any animal (large or small)
Happy trails to you and your pets
JILL SILVER
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