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Originally Posted by LuvMySissy  Giving yogurt and cottage cheese don't meet the calcium requirement? |
Cottage cheese has low calcium density. Yogurt has more calcium, ounce for ounce, (cottage cheese has more protein) but I included those in the average when I ran it through mastercook. The total, including the basic food recipe plus the added yogurt, here and there, only totals 171 mg per day as compared to commercial dog food providing 550 mg per day. Calcium is a mineral salt, and it's properties are not destroyed in heat processing as, say, something like vitamin A is.
The real question is: how much calcium do dogs really need per day to maintain adequate bone health? I'm no canine nutritionist (just anal about numbers LOL) so I don't know.
OP: does the Pitcairn book talk about how much dogs need? I've looked for that book in my local bookstore but couldn't find it.