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Originally Posted by concretegurl  I'm just saying he's not trying to be difficult or one tracked in thinking.
I think they're trying to be open minded in researching facts in a critical way.
What else but productive debate enables such in open forums. |
My last word on this is that these dogs have broken liver architechure. They have underdeveloped portal vein systems and shunting. Because of that fact, they cannot tolerate red meat in most cases. Why? Because of variations among protein sources as to the amino acid chains making up the food and in particular the nitrogen group. These red meats cause higher amounts of nitrogen to be released into the blood, which in a normal dog is cleaned by the liver before being returned to circulation. In the shunting dog, this cleansing doesn't occur, and nitrogen breaks down into ammonia and that builds up in these dogs causing varying degree of symptoms. Many cannot tolerate animal sources at all and that's why the world leaders in this area at Univ. Of TN recommend the foods they do. I prefer to debate areas where there is room for debate and liver shunting dogs and appropriate diets for them isn't one such area in my opinion. I don't like feeding legumes and tubers to my dog, but she's still alive and turns 12 next month so I'll continue to pu my own preferences as to the canine diet aside and feed what is saving her life. That's open minded, don't you think.