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your pet, so variety is required. Follow the suggestions we have presented
in this book, and balance should be no problem. Additionally,
mixing home prepared foods with the prepackaged Wysong foods
and supplements helps insure balance.
12. I notice that pet foods have all of those vitamins and minerals
in them. Do I need to get a vitamin/mineral supplement for my
home-prepared meals and supplements Again, if we look to the
model in the wild, the answer becomes obvious. Supplementation of
modern pet foods is done only because many of the nutrients are
destroyed, altered or stripped from the product during processing –
or were never in the inferior starting ingredients. If you are able to
feed high quality fresh and whole products, and combine these with
health-quality packaged diets or supplements, there should be no additional
need for vitamin/mineral supplementation.
13. Where is the best place to buy meats and produce Is what is
available at the supermarket fine Much of the food available in
today’s supermarket is intensively farmed. This means it has been
grown with high yield as the primary goal rather than nutrition and
safety. Thus, some products, even though they may look wholesome,
may be very low in nutrients and contaminated by pesticides,
herbicides and food-borne pathogens. Other than growing your own,
there is no sure way to know the quality of the food you eat. Short of
this there are other options: buying from organic producers, finding
local farmers who will sell to you and can give you a specific food
history, and making sure food bought from the grocer is cleaned thoroughly,
are the best alternatives. In any event, raw grocery foods are
far superior to processed foods which often use the inferior by-products
of these same grocery foods. The choice is yours. Buy the factory
waste from the human food industry, packaged prettily with
outrageous claims of “completeness,” or buy the real thing.
14. Does my large breed puppy need a special food In the past few
years, several pet food manufacturers have launched special “large
breed” puppy formulas designed to prevent developmental bone disease
such as osteodystrophy and osteochondroses. There are two
known causes for these diseases, genetic predisposition and overfeeding/over-supplementing
by pet owners. Manufacturers noticed
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