Help with food

In my profession i have always told dog owners to feed their pets raw meat - not pork and chicken and fish, but raw meat. Even from young, you can feed them a bit of chicken livers (with all the B-vitamins, with chromiun, manganese, and molybdenum and zinc). These are vitally important minerals for any puppy.

I recently peformed a hair trace mineral analysiso on a pup that could not pick up weight. The 90 day history of the dog's hair sample reflected inadequate magnesium (making the pup very aggressive), low levels of chromium and high iodine (speeding up the pup's metabolism, as the owner was feeding him more vegetables than meat). Dogs and pups are carnivores - they eat MEAT - only 15% of their diet must be vegetables and 5% fruit. Dried food do not agree with dogs nor cats or kitten. Olive oil is very good in keeping worms away at a young age... Very little garlic keeps fleas away from young. When dogs are older use a bit of Tea Tree Oil and Lavender oil to chase flees away that they do not return to your dog and breed on him/her.

Finally, feed your pup or dog, only raw meet. Keep in mind that a dog's digestive tract is exrtemely acidic (pH of 1.4) and is very short, and dogs and pups need to rip their meat into chucnks and this is how it is digested. Mince makes any animal's digestive track lazy and digestive disorders start when you feed a dog mince. NO SCRAPS FROM THE TABLE. Wheaty foods encourages worms and fleas. No dairy for a dog - it is a dog not a cow or calf... :-)

 Mark B. Zuhrbrigghen

(Ortho-moleular Nutritionist-Ph.D.)

Tel: 087-575-2777 (office number)

Hi

Bear in mind when feeding a puppy of that age that they go through different growth spurts. In which they will lose some weight once they start growing rapidly.

My advice will be to feed what you are feeding now and just to make sure that he is getting the correct amount. You can feed additional things like the chicken livers; it is very healthy and good for them.But don’t focus too much on bulking him up until he has stopped growing, otherwise you might sit with an overweight adult dog. My main focus usually on all my pups is that they are healthy, don’t have any worms, fleas or any medical condition that might prohibit them from growing properly. If they have no health problems I feed them what they are suppose to get and as soon as I see they are losing weight I feed them extra as to support the growth spurts.

Once a week, I like to give my pits chicken livers. I take a 250g tub of chicken livers, 1 cup of rice, 4 cups water, pop it in the microwave on high for 30 minutes (stirring it two or three times in between), let it cool and serve.  They love it, and its really healthy.

Hope that helps.

Wendy