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Dog Health Questions: Why Healthy Rawfed Dogs Don’t Get Fleas

IdeaMan21 | June 11th, 2009

A Question from a previous post:

What is different about the healthy rawfed dog that renders him intolerable to fleas? My dog is healthy and rawfed but used to eat crappy food and get vaccinated. After getting DE there are almost no fleas. I’m still working on it and dreading another hot summer and the possibility of fleas.

It isn’t that raw fed dogs are ‘intolerable’ to fleas, just that fleas are more drawn to unhealthy animals with poor immune systems. Keep up with the good diet and no/minimal vaccines and flea treatment, and I have no doubt your dog will continue to be come less and less attractive to fleas/ticks.

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Tags: barf, DE, dog health problems, dog health questions, dog problems, flea treatment, food grade diatomaceous earth, natural diet, natural raw diet, raw diet, raw feeding, unhealthy animals, vaccine damage

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Dog Problems: Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth & Fleas

IdeaMan21 | May 12th, 2009

What is different about the healthy raw fed dog that renders him intolerable to fleas? My dog is healthy and raw fed but used to eat crappy food and get vaccinated. After getting DE there are almost no fleas. I’m still working on it and dreading another hot summer and the possibility of fleas. She used to never get fleas until 2 yrs ago. She’s raw fed for 6mos.
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That is a tough question. It totally depends on your dog and her overall health. How old is she? You say she has had no vaccinations for two years. Was she vaccinated regularly before that? The fact that she is having a recurring flea problem indicates that she is not in optimal health.

Some dogs never can reach optimal health after being over vaccinated and fed commercial pet foods, unfortunately.

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Tags: commercial pet foods, DE, dog food, dog health problems, dog health questions, dog itching, dog problems, flea killers, flea problem, food grade diatomaceous earth, natural diet, natural raw diet, raw feeding, raw meat diet, vaccinations

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Dog Health Problems: Ear Infections Caused by Diet?

IdeaMan21 | April 25th, 2009

I feed primarily meats of all kinds, along with their bones, all raw. If we have leftover potatoes, they’ll get some, and I do throw in a few ground vegs and fruits. I’m pretty sure the problems the dogs are having with their skin is due to too many grains.

If I just use the small treats made with ground fish or meats, its okay, and they love them. Their skin and ears were fine. I gave them 2 days in a row way too many grainy foods, and soon after, I noticed the itching and biting, as if they had fleas, which they don’t. They’ve checked, rechecked, and checked over again.

They’ve been treated with a topical flea and tick repellent that is 100% biological, with essential oils today, just to keep them at bay, since ticks are a huge problem here where we live out in the rural area of Germany.

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Tags: chronic ear infections, dog food, dog health problems, dog health questions, dog itching, ear infections, ear mites, itchy skin, natural diet, natural raw diet, raw feeding, skin problems

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Dog Nutrition: Homeopathic Vet Has It Wrong

IdeaMan21 | April 24th, 2009

For a rawfed dog, there is no such thing as too much protein. Too much food, yes. Too much fat, yes. Too much of whatever the dog digests poorly, yes. Oh, and too much (as in “any”) plant-based protein like soy, yes indeed. A dog has two nutritional requirements in its pyramid: Protein and Fat. You cannot take either away without significantly affecting the dog as a whole.

It would seem that your homeopathic vet does not know or doesn’t care that dogs, being domesticated wolves, have no dietary requirement for anything but protein and fat. Your dogs need plenty of meat. The protein count comes with naturally with meat.

Digestive system, liver and metabolism in an otherwise healthy dog are not adversely affected by raw protein. You may indeed want to try something other than beef (feedlot beef is corn fed and if there is anything that’s likely to screw up your dog’s digestive system et al it would be corn. Or any other grain), but if/when you remove beef, you should be prepared to feed some other meat.

It’s not the presence of meat that’s likely messing with your dogs, it the presence of meats that are less than optimal (for a variety of reasons).

Your vet is utterly, completely missing the point of carnivorism if veggies and fruits have been recommended. This so undermines any vote of confidence I might otherwise have for the vet. Regardless of what kind of meat protein you want to feed, getting all (as in ALL) the species inappropriate stuff OFF the menu and OUT of the dog is job one.

I would argue that job two would be to find a different homeopathic vet.

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Tags: carnivores, dog foods, dog health problems, dog nutrition, eating habits, homeopathic remedies, natural raw diet, raw feeding

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Dog Ear Infections: When Diet Change is All You Need

IdeaMan21 | April 22nd, 2009

What are they thinking??? Beef is usually not the source of problems. I would simplify the diet, and if I suspected allergy, simplify to one species of meat at a time, to pinpoint a possible dietary problem. I would up the beef unless I was convinced that the dog is allergic to it. I would also introduce liver in small doses and stuff like kidney and heart with adequate bone and fat. hope u find the solution.

Definitely discontinue the Brewer’s yeast. there is nothing that will make my dogs ears go yeasty faster. also watch out for flax in your dogs diet. That will contribute to problems for dogs that are susceptible.

I second the issue with food. A natural raw diet would be best but failing that look for a kibble that has no grains at all in it. And another thing I learned the hard way was to check the contents of treats and biscuits. lots of grains in those.

Solid Gold makes dried lamb lung treats which dogs love and you can
get dried liver, beef jerky etc. which are all good. Banish any grains. You might also want to google ‘ Blue Power’ It is an ear wash you make at home and is highly effective.

I personally know of quite a few dogs that have ear issues completely cleared with it. Cleared up my sister’s dogs ears which no amount of antibiotics and ear washes from the vet had been able to do.

But do it outside. The blue stains!

I’m thinking the grainy stuff they have been receiving over the past 2-3 weeks is the culprit. I’ve always fed them beef, along with other meats and organs. Their skin was fine, and their ears were clear. I’ve packed up the other dry stuff and told my daughter not to bring her old breads to the dogs.

The thing about the ears is that every toxin is lead out of the inner body to the outside, vis ears, skin, nose, eyes, and anywhere else there’s an opening of some kind.That’s also why its important to know whats going on in the ears, and which side it affects.

Its true she isn’t all that knowledgeable about raw feeding, since she does sell dog food in her office, but she has never told me to stop feeding raw. Like I said, I’ll drop all grains, and even the small treats, since they are made up wholly of grains.

Tonight I’m giving them a bath, we’ll take it from there. Oh, they’re getting an Epsom salt bath, should be excellent for their skins.

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Tags: carnivores, chronic ear infections, clean dog ears, dog health problems, dog health questions, dog problems, ear infections, ear wash, kibble, natural diet, natural raw diet, raw feeding, raw meat diet

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