[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Kinda stumped for an answer
- From: Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx
- To: uwish@xxxxxxxxxx, Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:58:10 EDT
No, I don't have a better answer. I'm thinking of my sister's Huskie that
lived to 16 1/2 eating that Agway stuff w/ the red dye that looked like
hamburger when we were kids...all she got were annual boosters and every 3rd
year a
rabies shot (that was before we knew we were over-immunizing), or the
English Setters my grandparents had through the depression that ate what the
family
ate, sometimes, w/o meat for quite a few days at a time who lived a long,
long time...no HW pills, no flea and tick topicals, no regular vet exams...
Kathy, member GSDCA, DVGSDC
Celebrating generations of Dual Titled TC'd Champions
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In a message dated 10/8/2008 2:59:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
uwish@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
So I got my good friend who rescued a medium sized dog using the same
exact foods and supplements that I do. She feeds her boy Eagle Brand
Holistic chicken and rice, cooks chicken livers and adds yogurt and buys
Vibrant Pets supplement from me to add to his food. Now she owned two
other medium sized rescue dogs before this who were fed Purina dog chow
and lots of table scraps. My friend is a skeptic by nature. I'm
surprised she took my recommendations at all. So she and I are talking
the other day, and she says to me, I've fed my other dogs Purina all
their lives, no supplements, no chicken livers and no yogurt and they
lived to be 16 1/2 years old. She said she didn't think it mattered
what food you fed your dog. Just take a look how long her dogs lived
and were healthy all their lives. (The dogs were brother and sister).
So she asked me, "Just why am I feeding my dog all this premium stuff?
Your dogs are not living any longer than mine are." I was kinda lost
for words. She wasn't buying into my fears of digestive problems that
our breed has as an excuse for feeding them all this expensive stuff.
I told her if she ever had a dog bloat or get toxic gut, she'd never
forget it. She still wasn't convinced. Anybody else got a better
answer for her than I do? Just why are we spending so much money on
expensive food if other dogs are living longer lives without it? Barbara
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