Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Well, dogs need very little salt. What they do need is naturally present in a fresh diet (and commercial foods contain salt).
They do not need the "extra" salt (and certainly not the various forms of sugar) that commercial foods sometimes use for "palatability" (which I consider kind of an addiction device, similar to the extreme saltiness and/or sweetness of, say, fast food items). Small amounts probably pose little risk to a dog who is not hypertensive or suffering from kidney disease, proteinuria, or hypoalbuminemia. The big problems are dogs who DO have one or more of these challenges, possibly undiagnosed, and dogs who get into huge amounts of attractive-smelling and -tasting non-foods like Play-Do and other salt-based modeling compounds.
Riitta: My dog Bindi does not like goat meat at all. She sniffs it, and turns away. No matter how I doctor it up. She doesn't like meat with a lot of fat on it either. One day I saw her sitting with a piece of meat between her paws and she was pulling off the little bits of fat and spitting them out! ALl my other dogs eats goat and fat no problem. ( I feed very little fat to my dogs, but once and awhile it is on a piece of beef.)
God bless you
And again, canine susceptibility to allium toxicosis is highly individual. In addition, because of the time lapse possible between ingestion and symptoms or death, the autopsy will not always find the allium item in the gut, or the diagnosis of hemolytic anemia is probably not always attributed to an allium trigger. JMO.
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.... (cause I LOVE Garlic and use it a lot,,,for us humans, are we a toxic bomb waiting to go off???). Sorry, totally off the topic in some ways.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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.... I would also be interested in hearing from owners whose dogs DO NOT EAT bones of ANY KIND, or whose dogs dont like all kinds of meat. Logan will NOT eat a bone at all and neither will she eat beef or lamb. Chicken and turkey and rabbit fine, fish is ok too. ...
This part of your post is really a hijack, but I'm answering it because of the concern that the dog may be getting a raw diet with no bones, which is a nutritional disaster.
If that's the case, please post back and describe what the dog is being fed and learn how to amend an all-meat-no-calcium diet ASAP.
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