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Originally Posted by my2boyz  You know what confuses me...
Before commercial dog food became available in the U.S. we fed our dogs table food...with no supplements...and dogs lived healthier, happier and longer lives. Now that we have commercial dog food that has all changed and home cooking recipes need to have supplements added to be healthy. What happened? Was the food better back then? Do we put so much crap in our food, or take so much out, now that there is not enough nutrition in it to sustain our pets...if that's the case...then what about us? |
Good question.
None of it makes sense really.
One thing that may have happened way back when is that dogs were given bones. They may have gotten obstructed (who knows) but that was a major source of calcium. No dog can eat enough dairy or whatever to satify calcium needs. I really don't know what happened though and why those dogs didn't get pancreatitis unless they did get sick and just weren't treated.
Their diets also might have been part raw because I'm sure some of them caught mice and such. Some raw feeders don't supplement (which I don't go for but I'm not sure anyway has the whole answer).