Carol Boche Webboard User Reg: 10-30-2005
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What is the sugar content, that would be the thing I would be concerned with.
But if it is only this one time you might be okay with small amounts until you can get some plain live cultured yogurt. I usually give yogurt daily or at least every other day.
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Mike Armstrong Webboard User Reg: 08-06-2005
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There was some discussion a while back about honey being a prebiotic and helpful in the growth of probiotics, as found in yogurt. I think the small amount that's in yogurt would be fine, but I wouldn't go out of my way looking for it. Apparently a better choice for getting the prebiotic benefits would be giving bee pollen, but that's another subject.
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I have a friend that feeds one teaspoon of honey to her dobermann every day. Since she started doing it, she got rid of the demodex problem, the dog seems to get more of her food (she has bad appetite and tends to be skinny), looks fabulous and when she swallowed a piece of rubber she found outside and had not eaten or pooped for days, she still had a bloodpicture that looked like written off a veterinary textbook (and the vet thought that she is crazy until the x-ray- a sick dog doesn´t the perfect blood). The owner herself saw a direct relation to feeding the honey and the dissapearance of different problems. Could this actually be causing problems instead?
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Connie has drilled into our heads: Sugars feed cancers in dogs. She also says not to feed it to dogs with diarrhea.
I think honey in very limited amounts would be safe.
Sugar feeds cancer in dogs? I did a search for that but found nothing. I am interested on that conclusion was arrived at.
I always thought there are very close similarities to digestive system of bears and dogs. Wild dogs eat berries and natural sugars all the time.
Maybe she is referring to processed or synthesized sugars?
Sugar feeds cancer in dogs? I did a search for that but found nothing. I am interested on that conclusion was arrived at.
I always thought there are very close similarities to digestive system of bears and dogs. Wild dogs eat berries and natural sugars all the time.
Maybe she is referring to processed or synthesized sugars?
Research has shown that most human and canine cancer cells preferentially utilize carbohydrates, much more than normal cells do (this includes sugars, whether "processed" or not - fruit contains sugars too). So veterinary oncologists recommend that carbohydrates should be extremely limited in diets for dogs with cancer - here's a link: http://www.dog-health-guide.org/caninecancerdiet.html
Based on this research, Hills (I know - yuk!) manufacture a prescription Science Diet for dogs with cancer (Hill's N/D) which has reduced carbohydrate and higher protein.
Personally I don't think a little honey in yoghurt is going to harm a healthy dog. But I wouldn't feed any dog much carbohydrate on a regular basis. Bears are different, BTW - they are true omnivores (look at the teeth in a bear skull compared to a dog's teeth) - and they digest plant material such as berries much more efficiently than dogs can.
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Sugar exacerbates run-of-the-mill diarrhea in every species I've read up on. OK, that means two: humans and dogs.
The way I would phrase the sugar-cancer thing is that the cancers that especially use sugars for rapid growth are also cancers that dogs are particularly susceptible to.
I feed enough yogurt to my dogs (for the probiotics) not to want it sweetened, period. But I agree that a little now and then is not a big deal to our scavenger dogs...... just not a regular diet component.
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