Grandad wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:32 am
People get all caught up with trying to give a healthy balanced diet for every meal. They should instead think in terms of the overall diet for the week. Just like we do in our own diets. A takeaway pizza occasionally does us no harm so long as the rest of the weeks meals are relatively healthy. Dogs are the same.
Jim
Well Jim we differ here, if you watched a show on ABC yesterday called the superhuman, it explained the way our diet reacts in our bodies and what gives the best health outcomes and longevity. In my experience the dogs I've had show very quickly how their diet effects them and I would no more eat a pizza than give my dogs packaged food and would never eat such toxic waste as in a pizza, or any processed or packaged food. When cooking, it's for my dogs as well, so there's no real leftovers. All living beings have a specific dietary regime, diverting from that results in ill health, even for a short time it has adverse long term effects and it's how you apply and approach that dietary regime that determines good long term health and life, or short term feel good, then long term pain and suffering.
However everyone to their own approach to life and my dogs like myself, fast regularly, either a dry fast or wet one they both have different positive effects on our health. My dogs eat once a day, I eat 1-2 times a day and they do a wet 36hr fast each month, if we are on the road it normally turns into a dry fast and we fast together so they don't feel left out with me eating. I do a 36hr wet fast every week and a 36hr dry fast monthly, the benefits are clear to see. I'm also going to include my dogs in hyperbaric oxygen treatment, to reduce their toxin buildup and improve their ability to cleanse their system.As they have such different digestive systems, one has to be very careful when working with them. However have noted they really seem to enjoy the effects of breathing 65% pure O2 at 3lt per minute, which seems the best for them.
The current oxygen generator I'm building will produce 99% pure oxygen at 35lt per minute, which is necessary to get the best results and the new hyperbaric chamber I'm building will be big enough for me and the dogs, the temporary chamber I have is so small I struggle to get into it and others that have wanted to try it get claustrophobic really fast, the dogs love their short stints in the chamber.
I get laughed at for my approach to life, now the science is coming out that supports my approach, they still laugh, but I have the results they can't deny and they can see that just by looking at me. It's the same with my dogs, people always comment on how good they look and at how bright their eyes are, even the vet took them to get a chip was very impressed at their condition and mannerisms.
As for arthritis, that's a diet related condition, no different to humans, eat crap, get crap results. My late 24 year old dingo had no arthritis and my neighbours rescue dog had arthritis when she got him. He's a big tall dog and the poor bugger was struggling with arthritis, now after 3 years he bounds around and chases my 1 year kelpie (Bindi) whose nick name is the rabbit round the place.