BarbaraM | 10-29-2011 05:26 PM | The food I found is stella & chewy's freeze dried. "SecureByNature" food safety process: a process that make them safe from harmful bacteria naturally while retaining the food's nutrient value and flavor.
Some of the ingredients-first 12: Lamb, Lamb spleen, lamb liver, lamb bone, lamb heart, lamb kidney, calcium carbonate, pumpkin seed, potassium chloride, organic cranberries, organic spinach,organic broccoli...
The om has - first 12: Whole grain corn, corn gluten meal, soybean hulls*, soybean germ meal, soybean meal, pea fiber, wheat gluten, poultry by-product meal, animal digest, powdered cellulose, tricalcium phosphate, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), salt
I can't imagine eating anything with CORN allows any weight LOSS, could be wrong. Sounds highly allergenic to me, too. Pea fiber, cellulose - just doesn't sound good at all. Nothing nutritional as I can tell in the first 12 ingredients. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I just want the best for TeddE. I really feel his food should contain more nutrients than most traditional dog foods offer. His lamb dinner also contained some organic green beans that were cooked slightly and mashed up by me. He loved dinner--what there was of it!! I really expected him to be thirsty while on the steroids, but he isn't. The filtered water is filled continuously. (I was worried that perhaps he had Cushings? But I don't believe so. Basically weight brought on by the breathing issue.) For treats he gets the smallest amount of mashed organic apples. Such a tiny amount...once a day.
I believe I will look into the Chinese Herbs. Introduce them slowly. And maybe acupuncture to keep him calm instead of those awful meds! I used acupuncture myself with pain management (compressed cervical spine at C3 and C4, C6-C7) and it worked great along with chiro visits. (The infra-red saunas helped me, too - if I thought they would help TeddE, I wold see if I could get him some sessions. ;) )
Haven't checked on homeopathic remedies yet, tho! Might be something there too. Inflammation is bad for all, really. I found relief with homeopathic for sinus issues and nervousness. As well as herbal teas (I love chamomile)
I managed to get off of prescriptions for severe sinus infections, migraines, ibs/gerd, ulcers, multinodular goiter (I still take iodine/iodide), anemia from uterine fibroid tumors and just general poor health thru organic fresh foods. NO more processed. No corn! Ever. My daughter who is gluten sensitive has changed her life thru better food/nutrition as well. No more corn sugar for us, either. Corn sugar! You have GOT to be kidding me :eek:
Introducing new items take time and is a slow process, but the rewards are great!!
I am looking into the supplements too with Glucosamine + Astaxathin - for dogs? Meds are important, but I feel they can sometimes be depended on too much and used too often. Just where are those ingredients purchased I wonder? Are they even safe? Does the FDA really care? Can I trust the FDA? If no one watched where the ingredients for our kids vaccines were coming from, why would they care about the animals? Just a thought.
A theory of mine - and it's just a theory - when the food industry decided to remove iodine from baked goods *the kind our thyroids need and replace with bromine which does nothing for the thyroid - goiters and unhealthy people with thyroid issues were on the rise (still are, I feel - just docs never diagnose). So the call came in to put iodine in refined table salt *I only use unrefined, but the medical industry demanded we DECREASE salt (table salt). There go the thyroids again and lots of money to the docs and to the drug makers. Why would I trust anyone who replaces the GOOD in foods with BAD untested chemicals that are generally recognized as safe - to whom? For how long? Really? Did you know soy is NOT safe for humans, especially unfermented soy. No matter what. It was deemed safe to use in industrial settings and the food industry picked up on that and ran with it. Sorry. That is a whole different thread. But the main idea is NUTRITION. REAL FOOD. It's as crucial as synthetic medicines, imo. Cut costs to make money. Let them eat the stuff :D
I also have NO fragrances or harsh chemicals used in my home. NO glade at all. No swiffer. No scrubbing bubbles. No sprays. Low/No voc paints only. My drinking and bathing water is filtered to remove chlorine, fluoride, mercury and other contaminants. Why would you bathe daily in chlorine and then DRINK chlorine if it is known to be harmful to humans? :confused:
Oh, well. That's my soap box. Didn't mean it to drag on and on like that. :animal-pa |