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Originally Posted by aproctor  You all know so much about all of these companies that I have never heard of. 
Thank you for sharing all this information-it is nice to become more informed. I will be taking more time to research all of this so that I stay informed but it is hard to know about all of them...there are so many!!
My mom was talking about how she is not used to this "special" diet for dogs because when she was growing up they only fed their dogs table scraps and when they didn't have enough table scraps they would cook up some oatmeal and feed that to them and she said their dogs lived long and happy lives. BUT when she was growing up they ate most of their food from the garden and the food wasn't full of antibiotics and steroids like the food is today. It was much simpler back then. |
Yeah people did give their dogs table scrapes, but people ate healthier too. It's really hard to give a dog a balanced nutrition using just table scrapes, because dogs need so much more calcium than humans. People did give the dogs bones as it supplies calcium and there were a lot of casualties with this habit. That’s the first vet warning I can remember, as a child “No chicken bones.” Then eventually, “No steak bones” a bone had to be bigger than your fist, and then next,“ No soup bones.” I guess the rule now is, “No cooked bones?” However, since no company is testing, we often find out too late that something is dangerous. Another thing to remember is that yorkies seem to have a very deligate digestive system compared to most breeds.