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Nutrition

Nutrition choices are very personal.  One of the first things to remember is that if your dog is doing well, and staying healthy, that is what matters.  That being said there are times when a simple change of diet can do a lot to change the overall health and well being of a dog or cat.  The same thing holds true for your furry family member as it does with us.  The higher the quality of food going in the better off you are.

Most people know that good quality food is important to a pet, but find the problem mostly with advertising and what pet food companies are saying.  Even Vets are not always in agreement or clear on what a pet should be eating.  

The biggest suggestion that we give is to make sure that the first one, two or three ingredients in the food given to a pet are meat, meat and meat.  Not byproducts or meals.  "Meals" can mean anything from left over bones to the whole animal or fats, ligaments etc.  Cats need more protein than dogs.  Dogs that do a lot of activities might need more lipids in their diet. 

It is very unlikely that you will see any documentary showing a pack of wolves or any other canine and especially not a feline, hunting down a pack of corn, sheaves of wheat or any other grain.  These are generally added to pet foods for filling and are rarely digested.  Dogs convert most carbohydrate sources like these into fat - fat and protein are converted to energy and used for building.  Dogs and cats are not like humans - Cats are carnivores by nature and dogs, although they are omnivorous  subsided mostly on animals and berries and fruits.  Make sure you educate yourself before changing your pets diet.

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