Once upon a time, I was your average dog owner. I felt guilty when I
spoiled my dog with "people food". This concept was reinforced during
my veterinary training, with terms like table food gastroenteritis.
Oh, the horror of clients feeding table scrapes to their dogs! After
the reprimand, instructions to feed only commercial dog foods were
made and the deal was done. Poor Fido was banned from the family
dining room and forced to eat the same boring dog food everyday.
Before the advent of commercial pet food diets some 50 years ago,
family dogs thrived from the benefit of common sense and our
grandmother's cooking. Before the craze of pre-packed convenience
foods, the relatives of today's modern dog enjoyed and prospered
eating the same foods we did. That's right folks -- those dogs
belonging to your grandparents ate real people food and thrived. We
are not talking Big Macs and French fries, just fresh meats, whole
grains and all the vegetables that a dog could dig up in the garden.
Sadly, today's modern dog suffers from the economics of food
technology, which has failed to live up to its claims of being a
"natural" and "nutritionally balanced" diet....

http://groups.google.com/group/dogfoodmave

"ashley ross" wrote in message
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Once upon a time, I was your average dog owner.

Not only are you a spammer, but you're a plagiarizer as well. The
article you posted was not written by you. It was published in Housepet
Magazine, and was written by Paula Terifaj.

http://www.housepetmagazine.com/02/Dog_food.htm

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No opinion on the author, but it is an interesting topic. Folks have
such ideas of what to feed a dog or treat a dog with. I never give
them meat bones, not because I think they're bad, but because it
creates bad behavior in our older dog. No bones, no garbage digging.
Give her bones, next thing you know she's tipping the garbage over.

I do give them raw veggies a lot. Raw baby carrots are a favorite.
Cabbage hearts, broccoli stems. They love it. And I know it's
healthy. Grapes and celery aren't so popular. People come visit us
and think we're daft for the raw carrots, but we treat their doggies
and they are amazed. Even people can learn new tricks!

If I make homemade soup sometimes I put the broth with their regular
dry food. My husband has been eating tuna lately and it's bad... we
don't give them tuna but it sure does draw them to the garbage. No
incidents yet...

I came to this group hoping to find discussions on cattle dogs...
*sigh* I know they are very popular but folks just don't talk much
about them on Usenet. Such a bummer!

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