Link between behaviour and nutrition

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Link between behaviour and nutrition

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.Nutrition has an enormous impact on the health of our pets. Have you considered how it may affect their behaviour as well?


Manufactured food colourings, preservatives and flavours have all been shown to have close links to certain behavioural syndromes in humans, particularly children. This is also the case with our pets.


Dogs

Dogs suffering from anxiety, hyper excitability, and aggression, will respond favourably to change from processed dog foods to a balanced raw food diet. I can guarantee you will see a difference in their wellbeing.

I recently assisted veterinary behavioural specialist Dr Gabrielle Carter, by treating allergies in her own dog through dietary changes. Not only did the allergies improve dramatically, but Gabrielle was very surprised and pleased that her dog’s separation anxiety issues also changed for the positive.

I would encourage anyone involved in dog training to consider a change to a raw food diet for any problem dogs you come across.


Cats

Even if 80 years old, Pottenger’s Cat Study, remains significant research into the importance of a raw meat diet for pets.

Between 1932 and 1942, Dr Pottenger conducted a clinical trial, involving over 900 cats, into the nutritional effects of cooked versus raw food diets.

The cats fed on the cooked meat diet showed increased aggression to other cats and more aggressive behaviour towards their handlers. This behavioural change was easily reversed when the cats were put back onto a raw meat diet.


Latest Research

Emerging research on the links between behaviour and nutrition suggests that consumption of a raw meat diet improves the natural levels of 5-hydroxytryptophan in pets.

5-hydroxytryptophan in the body is a natural precursor to producing the neurotransmitter serotonin, which has a powerful impact on mood, and other behavioural traits.


The far reaching health benefits of a raw food diet still continue to amaze me, and correcting behavioural problems is just one of the many benefits of making this change.



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Interesting ideas there Dot.
Have you got a link to the full article ?

We were talking about this exact thing a coupla weeks ago with some friends.
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Lance wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2017 7:33 pm Interesting ideas there Dot.
Have you got a link to the full article ?

We were talking about this exact thing a coupla weeks ago with some friends.
Have a look at www.vetsallnatural.com.au you can also ring and ask any Q you may have. If you ring ask to speak to Sue.
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There is a growing acceptance that the gut is very closely linked to the brain and affects many (mental health) things.

And that good foods are needed to feed the good bacteria which keeps the gut balanced and then the head.

Plus, foods that slowly breakdown are needed to also feed the good bacteria like grains.
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All 3 of my rescue dogs where hypo and paranoid when I got them, along with bad coats and depression and now they are cool laid back travellers. Their diet consists of what I eat and they are thriving, plus they get extra fish and organic fowl in their diets.

All living brains operate on a chemical balance and when you introduce chemical diets which what the majority of domesticated animals and humans consume, those chemicals alter the brains balance. The growing rise in depression and other mental defects can be attributed to diet and lifestyle, even drug addicts when subjected to organic natural diets, have a dramatic change in personality.

My kelpie Dax was an insane hyperactive heavily stressed mad man, now he is a laid back madman and as he now has a little kelpie dingo lady by his side, he has suddenly grown a brain. Mind you sometimes his brain goes into space and he reverts to insanity, but it only lasts a few minutes instead of hours now. So in my opinion, it's diet that have made the biggest improvement, as well as being a full part of the family and having comfortable warm beds, instead of bare ground.
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When I had a Labrador pup which was having trouble getting rid of its' puppy teeth a vet advised me to feed it only neck of mutton and until it died at the age of 11 it had one neck per day which gave it meat and bone which maintained his teeth while giving him something to chew on. Unfortunately, neck of mutton is now sold for human consumption and has become a little expensive.

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