My dogs have had diarreha off and on and I am wondering-from reading the post here- if it is the Innova that I have been feeding them. How does the Californa Natural compare to Innova? Has anyone had any problems with Cal.Natural? I thought I might have been over feeding my dogs, but I have been watching exactly how much I have been feeding them and they still get diarreha occasionaly. I also add raw hamburger, alfalfa, kelp and Glucosomine. I know they don't have worms.
I have tried the Cal natural but my dogs did not like It. Its supposed to be better than the Innova. Also If you look closely at the Innova food you might see some mold on the food,I've seen It when I was feeding that Brand and I also read In the whole dog Journel that the Company was having trouble with moldy food,I guess the company had fixed the problem but who knows!
I am getting a puppy soon. I would like to know how to get started with this diet. It appears that the dogs are fed something different daily. Also, do you recommend giving Grand Flex in addition to everything else? If anyone has a meal plan to cover 8 weeks to 1 year that will be helpful as well.
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Ny article on All-natural diets went on my web site today. Look on the table of contents and in the health section in the list of articles.
I do feed Grand Flex to all of my dogs evevry day.
Bottom line is that I use the little $9.00 book I sell titled <a href="http://leerburg.com/935.htm">Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats</a> as my bible.
I just read your article. I notice that you feed a large amount of ground meat per meal compared to RMB (raw meaty bones). Have you not found this to throw off the phosphorous:calcium ratios? I follow more of the Billinghurst approach of around 70% RMB with a 50:50 ratio of bone to meat. Even when I feed meat in their veggie meal I have also fed a meatless bone at some other meal. It has been a long time since I read K. Schultze's book, but I don't remember her recommending so much meat, either.
For those of us who don't live near thousand acre farms, processing plants or other such luxuries, feeding raw can be a headache. Our hamburger runs $2.49/lb for the cheap stuff, I can find it on sale for 0.99/lb. I did manage to find chix bones at 40lbs/$6 with tons of meat still on them.......but it's a solid hour's drive and with my work schedule, it's very tough.
I try to feed raw as much as possible, but most veggies run at least $1.50/lb (on sale) so it's very expensive to feed 3 Rottweilers raw in Boston. When I can't get to the store, the dogs get Innova, and still plenty of bones.
As to goldfish Ed, I don't think my dogs will complain about their life or their diet here. Hell, they've never even been *IN* a kennel.....they are my darlings and they have it good.
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