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BULL TERRIER KIDNEY DISEASE | Please feel free to print this page, use and distribute. The information contained herein has been compiled by Patricia Bryan

Why are dried dog foods and tinned dog foods being recommended via breeders when they sell their puppies?

Welfare Fun Day - sponsored by The Bull Terrier Club; see advert second line down Eukanuba (dried food) Best Welfare Dog regional heat first three to national semi-finals!

Please see article in “The Bull Terrier Club Bulletin Number 165 Summer Issue page 46.” I know because the article is printed that it does not mean the breed as a whole believes such things, but with an article like that can we really ignore such facts? The concept of the whole article might be hard to accept as it is so horrific but even if one only believes a fraction of the article it is still too horrific to feed our precious breed any of the dried / tinned dog food !!!

Would you eat that dried / tinned dog food (tripe, bright coloured chews and biscuits etc.)? Then why should they? Day after day after day after day...try this for yourselves. Either dried / tinned dog food or both and just water and biscuits. Eat for a week, morning, noon and night, day after day and do not clean your teeth. Now watch the muck build up in your whole mouth, around your teeth and gums.

Imagine the smell from your mouth and your breath, the discomfort of your gut, the smelly wind! As for your poo, what would that be like, what would it smell like? Your natural gut-flora all upset and all the toxins circulating around your insides and going back up towards your heart and head and affecting all your organs - so - imagine what it is doing to your precious dog/bitch and their tiny organs and body, day after day after week after month after year. Is it any wonder our breed struggles with its health along with vaccines and chemical drugs, etc. ?!! Exactly what goodness is really going into them?

Ideally food should be as raw as possible but as that is not always possible then why not steam some of the food or, on occasions, have your cooked food or perhaps half raw/steamed. Imagine the variety and the flavours, textures and colours of all the natural foods plus the endless amounts of vitamins and minerals and nutrients. Imagine their joy and their digestive juices starting to rise as you prepare all that lovely fresh-smelling food, endless kinds of vegetables and fruit, pastas and rice, nuts, seeds, pulses and toasted brown bread (instead of biscuit). Try not to use too much white food devoid of nutrition, a little protein: eggs, cheese, fish and meat. There are so many combinations to use.

Dogs are mainly scavengers. They would certainly not eat meat every day. They would not kill a cow, a calf, bull, sheep, pig, goat or horse therefore their diet would not consist of red meat or tripe. Also biscuit and bones would not often feature in their diet but if bones did, they would be raw, not cooked, and thus not liable to splinter. Dogs are not born with scissors to open packets of dried food or tin openers to open tinned dog food, or cookers and pans, and especially not microwave ovens.

Their diet would be mostly greenery and herbs, vegetables below and above ground, cereals, fruit and occasionally eg. fish, eggs, a bird etc. They would also scavenge hence giving them a treat of your food such as meat and veg, fruitcake, jelly and custard etc. etc. All treats in moderation.

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