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Cancer is much more prevalent in dogs these days than it ever used to be. Anyone can look at the numbers over time and see that as man started to feed dogs kibble as opposed to their natural food, cancer in dogs immediately increased as a statistic. When you think about it your grandparent's dog probably died of old age, unfortunately these days more and more dogs seem to be dying of cancer.
There are three major factors in the cause of cancer in dogs, genetics, environment and Nutrition/Diet. Let's take a look at each in turn.
Genetics, you can't do anything about this. Whatever genes your dog has are the genes it has and you have to deal with what you have in front of you.
Environment - if you live with a smoker or live in the city and breathe bad air, pollution can affect whether or not you get Cancer. While we all try to do our part buy carnitine the environment, to a certain degree we are all exposed to the same environmental pollutants.
Nutrition/Diet - this is the only variable we can control. The more we look into nutrition the more it makes sense that to extend the life of your dog and avoid cancer, the best solution is to improve its nutrition. Feed it what its body is specifically designed to eat and digest.
If you look around the world you will notice that most people don't use kibble, in fact only in North America is it a billion dollar industry.
It is so important for people to understand how strong the causal relationship is between feeding their dog processed grain-based food such as kibble that contain a lot of corn, wheat and rice, and the dog developing cancer later in life.
When you look at what has been happening to dogs in North America this year, many of them co-enzyme q10 sick and dying from eating certain pet foods, and the increased scrutiny this brings over what we are feeding our dogs, we can see that a great deal of concern has been raised among pet owners... and for good reason! If you spend any time doing research on what is actually in commercial pet food and compare it to what all canine species on the planet eat in the wild, switching to Raw Food only makes perfect sense and the results speak for themselves, talk to anyone who has switched!
Mother Nature's naturally designed diet for dogs is raw meaty bones and pureed vegetable matter. This is what their ancestors, wolves, eat in the wild and no-where does this include grain. No canine species on the planet is biologically designed to digest processed grain.
Over time dogs end up with numerous health problems because of eating grain-based food including food allergies, skin sores, hot spots, flaking and itchiness of the skin, chronic ear and eye infections, skin sores and liver spots while over time your dog can end up with buy dmae organ failure and all kinds of long-term health issues. This is because a dog's stomach does not have the ability to digest the plant cell wall, which has a very hard shell that makes it very difficult to digest. This actually makes the organs work doubly hard to process the food without getting any of the nutritional value from it at all! For example, if you feed your dog a piece of carrot whole, when the dog poop's you'll find the carrot looks almost identical to when it went in, very little of it will have been digested. But if the plant cell wall is broken open (i.e. pureeing in food processor) a dog's stomach is able to digest it easily and his body can then benefit from all of the nutrients contained within.
Feeding any dog a diet that is not naturally, biologically sound for its body is eventually going to put a lot of stress on the dog's organs. The dog's organs are going to have work twice as hard, the cells will die and die faster and in the end will cause the dog to be more susceptible to these cancer-causing tumors.
One of the ways cancer cells form is through the natural birth and death of a cell. A cell is only meant to duplicate a certain amount of times over a lifespan and if that process is sped up because the cell is not allowed to conduct itself the way it is biologically supposed to as a result of bad diet, it will die sooner because errors slip into the duplication process, which can then turn into cancer over time.
Just like people have taken control of their own nutrition, (everybody knows that you don't eat out at a fast food restaurant every day of the week if you want to stay healthy), we need to learn the same thing about our dogs nutrition and really understand what our dogs need for longevity.
People tend to want to feed their dog what they eat, and although this can be the case (many fruits and vegetables), if you don't know what you are doing you can make mistakes and do more harm than good. Do the research and find out your facts, once you know the facts it's easy to proceed. Nutrition becomes very simple.
One of the best things you can do for your dog when switching them to Mother Nature's diet is conduct a health assessment to determine the health of your dog and develop the most effective diet plan to meet his needs. It is crucial to understanding the nutrition aspect of feeding your dog and knowing what to feed him.
My philosophy is to start feeding your dog Mother Nature's Raw Food Diet when they are young and healthy and you'll be much less likely to have any severe health issues with your dog over time. Puppies as early as three weeks old can be introduced to raw meaty bones.
I was introduced to this diet by people whose dog was 12- 13 years old when it was diagnosed with cancer. It was at that point that they learned about the raw food diet and they still had much success with their dog living up to 2-3 years longer than had originally been expected.
So, as we can see, it is never to late for good nutrition but if you're switching an older dog or a sick dog I highly recommend you see a homeopathic vet first because there are a lot of specific homeopathic remedies available that could be highly beneficial to your dogs health and complement the diet at the same time.
At first when you begin your dog on Mother Nature's Diet, if you are using a lot of supplements, it can be a little more expensive, but over all, feeding your dog raw food should be a lot cheaper than feeding your dog from a bag and ultimately the most healthy!
The one thing people do need to realize is that if you are switching your dog from a kibble to a kibble then you do so slowly over time. When you are ready to switch to raw food on the other hand, it's one-day kibble the next day raw, unless specifically instructed otherwise by your homeopathic vet. As it was described to me by Dr. Ian Billinghurst author of "Give Your Dog a Bone", why put a little bit of poison in with your dog's good food.
Most people tell me after converting their dog how guilty they feel about all the bad food they used to feed their dogs. It is not too late to change your ways for the health and well being of your dog!
Peter Brown, who has been training dogs to 'mind their manners' for over fifteen years, would like to offer you a free assessment of your dog's training needs, please fill out the form at Free Dog Training Assessment
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