The right food for your dog

Since thousands of years dogs and wolves live on caught prey. Even if they live with us humans, nothing has changed to this.

Dogs are and remain prey hunters. Teeth, saliva, gastro-intestinal tract and digestion secretions are developed to breakdown, digest, and absorb raw food and raw bones.

Although dogs are carnivores, they need also vegetable substances, vitamins and minerals in their food. They find them predigested in the gut of their prey. The gut contents as stomach, intestines and colon, are full of semi digested plant and grain material and provide essential metabolic components. Dogs and wolves eat this “mush” of plant matter quite greedily. It has the same significance as a lottery jackpot to us.

Nature has established that carnivores (dogs, wolves) mainly live on herbivores (rabbits, poultry). Therefore they get a balanced diet which contains all required nutrients.

Since our domesticated dogs find their food no longer in the wild, it is up to us humans to provide them a balanced dog food diet.

But, which food is right for your dog; dry food, canned food or raw food? The supply in pet shops is more than comprehensive and every dog food manufacturer promises only the best for your dog.

Commercial dog food

When you feed your dog comercial dog food, pay attention to the ingredients. Avoid dog food that contains preservatives (BHA, BHT) and By-products.

There are already dog food manufacturers who use fresh meat or even organic ingredients.

Fresh food/Raw dog food

If you prepare fresh food for your dog make sure that you always add raw, chopped vegetables. This corresponds to the predigested food in the gut of prey. Perhaps you also need a food supplement, so you do not need to weigh out and calculate the nutrients.