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After all the pet food scares, my people think the crap I ate as a puppy might have had something to do with my osteosarcoma. They also believe I am still hopping around happily more than a year after my diagnosis thanks to my healthy diet and supplements.
Whether your tripawd had cancer or is three-legged for another reason, a good diet is important for maintaining proper weight and a healthy immune system.
Please share your thoughts, questions and recommendations for a healthy diet here in this forum.
Tripawds Founders Jim and Rene
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We totally love Jerry's nutritional advice and have learnt alot from it. Lalla has a prescribed "inutuitive" diet, which is based on alot of fish, and recently a turkey-neck soup which my father makes for her. The thing is she is very fussy about what she eats, and won't compromise, which is a direct reflection from me, as I worked in the wine business for over twenty years, and my palate "controls" me. I think its revenge on my being a pescoterian.
All my life my pawrents fed me commercial dog food. As I am a finicky eater they mix kibbles and moisty together so that I would eat. Then along came Jodi my mom's friend and tried to introduce us to the raw food diet. My mom went to a seminar by the author who wrote Raw Meaty Bones and tried it on my and heck every time they gave me one of those I looked at her and asked "Are you firing the grill any time soon"? So we went back to the commercial food. After getting osteosarcoma and reading about Jerry's diet and some other resources, my mom decided to give the raw food diet another try. Well I don't know whether it is that I am getting there in years or if she is the one getting there in years but this time around I LOVE IT! She has followed a lot of Jerry's advice about the veggies and supplements. She also gives me some cottage cheese with flaxsee oil and K-9 Immunity . For flavor we have tried garlic, ginger and parsley. So far, paw licking good! I have more energy than ever even after surgery.
Kellie
I think the raw diet is great but I had concerns about potential salmonella poisoning with the raw meats, especially chicken. Do you wash the chicken in hot water or anything to clean it before feeding it to your dog? How do you minimize the risks?
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Kellie we are so glad that you're enjoying the raw diet. A lot of dogs don't like raw at first, and turn their noses up at it the first few times. They really don't know what to make of a chunk of raw meat in their bowl.
After all, if you humans had been fed a diet of sweet steady junk food all your life, what would you do when someone fed you something healthy and nutritious? Commercial dog food tastes like candy. . . it's the only way that companies can disguise what's in it and get us dogs to eat their slop!
It's great when pawrents give the raw diet another shot. Chances are, most dogs will go for it after a few times, and once they taste how good it is, they'll never want anything else.
As far as salmonella goes, there are two schools of thought on it. Raw diet advocates claim that dogs don't get salmonella, or at least aren't as susceptible to it as humans. But many oncologists don't like the raw diet for dogs with cancer, because they believe that with a weakened immune system, dogs with cancer are more likely to get sick from any bacteria on it.
My pawrents took a leap of faith and wanted to see if I could stay healthy on a raw diet. Well, I sure have, so they continue feeding it to me and I couldn't be happier.
When I eat chicken, Mom pretty much just tosses it in my bowl. She minimizes the risk of contamination by only buying organic or natural meats. If she does buy conventional meat, which happens a lot when you travel like I do, she buys Tyson brand. Apparently they have the highest standards out of chicken processers in the US. At least that's what Mom heard in a Raw food class she took.
Hope I answered your question, Crystal!
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My mom is very interested in a diet change for me. Honestly though, my mom is overwhelmed right now. In addition to me, we have a 10 month old puppy and 3 human kids. One of the kids is a special needs boy with huge eating issues. He is great kid but there is alot of energy put into his eating, and hypersensitivity issues. My mom wants the best for me and realizes that even the high end commercial food that I am on is not really great for me. Is there an easy way to start on supplements? Where is the best place to start?
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I have been on raw diet since I was 2, and I have no problems with it. I loves it.
I can't thank Dr. Ian Billinghurst and Kymythy Schultze enough. It was Billinghurst's Give Your Dog a Bone, and Schultze's Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats, that helped my mom to take the leap of faith over 10 years ago.
Our stomach juice (ph1) is way stronger than people (ph4). Our guts are more capable!
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Almost all antioxidants are good. As a start, the most common Vitamin A, B-complex, C, D, E, ... and then selenium, zinc, ... These are the main ones for boosting.maintaining the immune system. After you get a hang of it, gradually adding more other where you see fit, e.g. green tea extract, astragulas, grape seed extract, quercitin, CoQ10, Milk Thistle, Acidophulus, Omega-3... the list can go on.
We are a bit fortunate than our people because we manufacture our own Vitamin C. Most people think that we don't need to be supplemented with Vitamin C.
Unfortunately, when we are in stress (pollution, toxins, sick, trauma, aging, weather, ...) our body cannot produce enough C to help ourselves. So I am glad mom is giving me megadose of it!
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Hi Charlie give it a try. The first time around that I was fed raw food, I ran the other way. I think it was not because I didn't like it but more that my mom was not very verse and knowledgeable about it. This time around she has done so much reading and research she is ready. The book that Genie is recommending here by Kymythy Schultze is the same one that my mom has and it is fantastic. Also if you read Jerry's diet you will find that you can work something out to have your mom start you on the right direction. My mom also went to the BARF website (link is right here in Jerry's site under Health Tips). There she read about BARF, Budwig Diet and many other resources. She found a distributor for BARF here in Georgia and bought me some (not a whole bunch) to see how I would react. To make it tastier she adds garlic, some ginger and parsley to it and boy...believe me paw licking good. She alternates and sometimes she adds flaxseed oil, cottage cheese, fish oil and glucosamine. We are also giving the K-9 Immunity a try (just like Jerry) and so far I can tell you that I am feeling like I am 3 again (vs 11). I have great appetite and lots of energy, my coat is very soft and shinny. Give it a chance and try it..
P.S. And did I tell you that sometimes I get apples, strawberries and blueberries in there too for dessert. Yep got to hand it to my mommy, she chops chops chops and chops some more. But the good thing about it is that my two brothers are getting some too...lucky dawgs!!!!
Kellie