What to feed your dog

How should you feed your dog, all natural raw diets or conventional dog food in bags or cans.

If you believe in and can afford to feed your dog a more natural diet, then I say go for it. Our dogs here at Spirit Animal Sanctuary benefit greatly from the couple of tons of donated meat from local butchers and meat processors. They absolutely love this stuff and prefer it over dry dog food, when available. Why do they love it, these are predators and carnivores that we teach to eat dry or canned dog food from birth. It doesn’t take long for their natural instincts to say, ” Hey this stuff is GGreat !! ”

The real point of this article is to address the dog lovers that would really like to feed their dogs a raw diet, but just can’t afford it. A medium to large size dog is going to require one or two pounds a day of meat. Over the course of a year, that’s going to get very expensive. If you can’t afford to feed your dog or dogs meat, don’t worry about it to much. Animal feeds have greatly improved over the last twenty to twenty-five years. Most of the more controversial preservatives are not used anymore. Thirty years ago, we routinely had dogs living 14, 15, 16 years consuming what was suppose to be bad for them. Maybe we just got lucky, or maybe the stuff is not as bad as believed.

So if you prefer to feed your dogs store bought dog food, It’s mostly all good stuff these days. So don’t sweat the small stuff.

Additional resources

What our dogs eat and don’t eat, and why

Dog emotions and body language

Housebreaking puppy training, The new logical approach

Alpha or Nervous Dog Behavior

Alpha Dog Behavior or Play behavior

How to be your dogs, Alpha Dog

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