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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? |
I don't know when you dog food became available in the US, but, I'm 52 years old, and purina has been around my whole life. Our dogs lived 18 plus years on purina.
Now, on the other hand, I have a friend that has been feeding her dog human food for about 4 or 5 years, the dog is now 6 and she just rushed it to the vet the other day for pancreatitis.
The dogs of ours that lived long lives off of purina were NEVER fed our food, so my beliefs are that I feel from what I've seen over the years, that NOT giving human food at all, they tend to live longer lives.
Our golden retriever was put down when she was 17 or 18 and she lived out her life on kibbles and chunks. The only reason she was put down was because she had cancer.