Has your dog just been diagnosed with Diabetes or Pancreatitis? Wondering what to do? It’s not a death sentence, you can manage this condition, through a proper home diet and insulin – and it is not as hard as you would think!

About seven years back, Alex our Australian Terrier/Silky Terrier X suddenly became ill. We found her; lying outside on the cold pavement, in the middle of winter – panting heavily! We were unsure just why she appeared to be so hot, but we knew something was seriously wrong!

A rush to the Vet revealed high blood sugar and the diagnosis of Pancreatitis. But there was hope – Diabetes or Pancreatitis IS NOT terminal!

Initially we were told though that it would be very difficult to manage her condition, that medication would be expensive and that there was still the likelihood that we would lose her! The general attitude of the Vet was that we should just have her put down – to this day, we are amazed at how cold and uncaring they were!

We did not give up on Alex! We committed to a simple routine – monitor her meal sizes and very importantly – fat in her diet ( plus her blood sugar from time to time) and give her insulin injections twice daily.

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She survived another SEVEN YEARS (until 2009) – and we became quite experienced in managing this condition. Let me say, no matter what you are told – diabetes in dogs is not that hard to manage!

About the only difficulty we ever had, was once when we were out (with her) and very late getting home and therefore feeding her, her blood sugar dropped quite low. She started getting very lethargic and drowsy, we actually had to buy a piece of cake and feed her a bit, just to get her blood sugar levels up. But within 10-15 minutes, she was her usual self!

We attribute her long survival to a home made dog food diet; one that was low-fat and high protein – despite all of the doomy and gloomy predictions of our local vet at that time – she thrived!

You CAN, and WILL cope with canine diabetes, it’s very easy to do and your dog can have years added to its life! It will only take a few minutes and a few dollars per week, and you get to keep your dog.

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You don’t have to lose your dog now – go ahead and try the simple combination of home made dog food and professional (but optimistic) veterinary care, I sincerely believe that you’ll be GLAD you did!

Steve

Twenty years ago when I first started home made dog food i wanted to make the food as tasty as I could for my friend and happily added about one or two onions to every batch of meat that I cooked up for him (his name was Caesar). I never noticed any particular issues with him, though he would go “off” his food at times.

I’ve since learnt that onions are actually quite bad for dogs and that I may have (in ignorance) been harming him. You see there’s an ingredient called Thiosulphate in onions (and garlic to a lesser extent) that in sufficient quantity can attack red blood cells and cause a lack of oxygen carrying capacity in the blood; leading firstly to loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhoea, later to breathlessness – and eventually if given a large enough dose or small doses over time; even to death.

Thankfully I must not have used sufficient onion in my recipes, because Caesar was OK – until the day someone let him out the back gate and he was never seen again! Read more on onions (and garlic) and lots more things that can be harmful for your dog including chocolate – Here.

Steve

Today there there is an increasing move; away from commercial dog foods to the more natural (and less expensive) home made dog foods.

As well as the HUGE savings, this gives fellow Doglovers peace of mind – they know what they’re feeding their companions; so it’s no longer an ingredient guessing game! Just one example – we’ve heard stories of dogs scratching themselves to bits, fed on commercial food – and that resolving almost immediately on homemade dog food.

And the question that’s often asked next is – is BARF (Raw) the best choice for my pal?

We currently own 5 dogs and have done so, for more than 10 years – plus there were single or paired dogs prior to that; so have around 20 plus years of experience in this area. There were times in our lives when we simply could not afford the high price of commercial food – so circumstances dictated we had to make our own. Now however it’s a matter of quality!

Anyway – I digress! We’ve tried (and still do) both Cooked dog food and Raw dog food (sometimes called BARF – for Bones And Raw Food or Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) and have found that it really does come down to owner (and pooch) preference.

Home Cooked Dog Food requires the extra work of cooking the meat and mixing with the other ingredients; which can be time consuming if you have lots of dogs. It can heat up your kitchen – OK in Winter but maybe not in Summer? But it does offer the advantage of sterilising the meat; if your pet meat supplier is not up to scratch. Plus – some dogs actually prefer the taste of Cooked meat.

Right now we have our supplier bag up the Raw meat – which we can cook in the Microwave in daily batches, then mix with our other ingredients – or just leave Raw!

Home Raw Dog Food is definitely the easiest option, because there’s no cooking, just Mix & Serve! But we have noticed that some of the pieces of meat (which are larger because they have not been shrunk through cooking) – may stick between the dogs teeth and contribute to smelly breath!

No matter which option you choose – your food will be hundreds of percent better than canned or bagged food and can add years to your dogs life!

But I’ll leave it to you to make that decision – try the Homepage Here for a recipe system that will get you started.

Steve

Dog Food – What’s So Bad About By-products?

I’m glad you asked – byproducts are a pet hate of mine – well really, they are not only my pet hate, but are frowned upon by anyone who cares about what they feed their dog! The reason for this is their source!

Meat By-products, or Beef By-products or Meat meal or Chicken or Poultry By-products or meal – are the unwanted wastes leftover from slaughterhouses and animal processing plants! They are a super low cost recovered protein source that can be made from anything including: trim considered unfit for human consumption, diseased animal or poultry carcasses, animal hooves and feet, feathers, hide and even hair! The truth is anything they like – can and does go into it!

How do I know? Well, many years ago I got to see inside a Protein Recovery Unit as it was called. This one facility, was designed to produce a protein rich powder from the waste created by a series of poultry processing plants. The aim was to save money by using the waste to make a saleable protein powder which could then be used to boost the protein levels of stock and pet foods.

While I can appreciate the need to deal with the waste that we humans create by killing masses of chickens for food; I saw the condition of the putrid waste chicken heads, feet and feathers they used and I DO NOT want any dog of mine being forced to eat such a – well – rubbishy food source!

I mean we use the term garbage in – garbage out – and I sincerely believe that what we get when we buy pet food made from this stuff, is an inferior quality food! And it’s not like it’s cheap – we can and DO make food of a FAR HIGHER quality ourselves, for a FRACTION of the cost of their stuff!

So – without ranting all day – please be an informed pet food consumer – read the labels and be on the lookout for these cost cutting methods – and buy the best you can afford! If you can’t afford much – then use some of your free time to save money and maybe even lengthen your dogs life – make your own!

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A U.S. federal grand jury indicted two Chinese businesses, a U.S. company and their top executives in connection with tainted pet food, which killed and sickened up to thousands of pets last year, prosecutors said. The businesses and executives are accused of playing a role in manufacturing and importing a tainted ingredient used to make the pet food.

The indictments allege that more than 800 metric tons of wheat gluten were tainted with the industrial chemical melamine and falsely labeled to avoid inspection in China.

The indictments said at least 13 shipments were made to the United States at a cost of about $850,000 between November 2006 and February 2007.

The next month, more than 150 brands of cat and dog food were recalled nationwide after the Food and Drug Administration learned that some pets were becoming ill and dying after eating certain foods.

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