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• that vegetarian recipe kind of scares me. i think there is a lot of documentation/studies that show that dogs need high amounts of animal protein to be healthy. i enjoy her recipes, but i think people should research what diet your dog requires before jumping into making his meals. obviously this is totally doable, but i wouldn't use her book as a guide.

  By  themirthmobile, at 11:51 AM, May 17, 2007  

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• This is what my dogs back home in Malaysia usually get:
  Rice
  Chicken carcasses, heads, necks, and feet
  Fish if it's cheap that week
  Beef "chippings" (the bits that fly off when the butcher chops up frozen meat)
  
  Third World homemade dog food...they've been fine on it for years.
  
  Current theory is that dogs became domesticated by following human camps picking up scraps. I really think modern pet owners make too much fuss. Although it's not entirely their fault, as the decline of small neighbourhood butcher shops in the US is making it harder to get scraps and bones easily.

  By  xenobiologista, at 11:15 PM, May 21, 2007  

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• all I know I read this article please all read it.
  
  "Commercial Dog Food is Killing Your Dog,
  Hear What The Experts Have to Say..."
  
  The widespread disease and death of dogs from nutritionally inadequate and poison-laden commercial dog food is no secret in the world of vets and dog experts....
  
  "Experts 'Come-Forward' About Commercial Dog Food Scandal.."
  
  Leading dog-health author, Ann N. Martin, sums up the state of commercial dog food in a single sentence..
  
  "Most commercial pet foods are garbage"
  
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  World-famous vet and dog-care author Alfred Plechner, says the poor nutritional properties of commercial dog food inevitably lead to disease..
  
  "Because many commercial foods are woefully deficient in key nutrients, the long term effect of feeding such foods makes the dog hypersensitive to its environment. . . .
  
  It's a dinosaur effect. [Dogs] are being programmed for disaster, for extinction.
  
  Many of them are biochemical cripples with defective adrenal glands unable to manufacture adequate cortisol, a hormone vital for health and resistance to disease."
  
  Debra Lynn Dadd, author of 'Home Safe Home' says commerical dog food company claims their product is a complete and healthy meal are false..
  
  "Many pet foods claim to be "100% nutritionally complete and balanced." This claim legally can be made and printed on commercial products based on information studies using isolated nutrients and not whole foods
  
  .. these tests ignore important nutritional issues and give ... consumers a false sense of knowledge and security.
  
  There are more than forty known, essential nutrients... thus, making sure a food contains appropriate amounts of only a dozen of these nutrients can't possibly assure that a food is "complete."
  
  
  Chemical and Preservative Free' Labeling a Lie. Experts Expose Truth..
  
  Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and author, Henry Pasternak, rips back the veil of lies about dog food labeling..
  
  "Many pet foods advertised as "preservative-free" do, in fact, contain preservatives.
  
  ..manufacturers don't have to list preservatives that they themselves did not add.
  
  Many preservatives make their way into pet food at rendering plants before the meat is even sent to the manufacturer. An analysis of several pet foods labeled "chemical free" or "all natural ingredients" found synthetic antioxidants in all samples."
  
  
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  Henry Pasternak also reveals..
  
  "Although you won't see it on the label, since it is often added at the rendering plant and not by the manufacturer, ethoxyquin (EQ) is used to preserve most dry pet food.
  
  EQ is the most powerful of all preservatives and may be the most toxic.
  
  The use of EQ is ... permitted in pet food.
  
  ...factory workers exposed to it exhibited side effects similar to those of agent orange:
  
  a dramatic rise in liver or kidney damage,
  cancerous skin lesions,
  hair loss,
  blindness,
  leukemia,
  fetal abnormalities, and
  chronic diarrhea.
  In animals, EQ has been linked to:
  
  immune deficiency syndrome;
  spleen, stomach, and liver cancers;
  and a host of allergies."
  
  
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  Best-selling pet care author, Ann N. Martin, reveals why foods labeled as 'chemical and preservative free' are actually chock-full of deadly poisons...
  
  "Before these animal parts and by-product used for pet food are shipped from the slaughterhouse to the rendering plant, the by-product is "denatured."
  
  This means that crude carbolic acid, cresylic disinfectant, or citronella, is sprayed on the product."
  Your dog's food contains dead pets, mostly cats and dogs!
  
  Euthanized dogs about to be
  processed into dog food
  The city of Los Angeles alone, for example, sends some two hundred tons of euthanized cats and dogs to a pet food plant every month.
  
  Not only is this immoral and disgusting... it's deadly.
  
  The true horror is the drug used to kill these stray and abandoned animals, Sodium Pentobarbital, is not broken down by the manufacturing process and is still present in active form in your dog's food!!
  And dog food companies don't stop with pets, your dog is also eating euthanized animals from zoos, animal control and putrid, decaying road kill.
  
  All of these dead animals and other ghastly materials are processed until the portion left over for dog food production is a brown powder, which consists of ...
  
  25% fecal matter - yes, 25% animal crap! [Author, Howard F. Lyman]
  
  Journalist Exposes Ugly Link Between Dog Food & Dead Pets"
  
  Author and research investigator, Ann N. Martin discovers vets have known for years the dangers of feeding dogs euthanized animals but still it continues..
  
  "This [using euthanized animals in dog food] can be problematic because sodium pentobarbital can withstand the heat from rendering.
  
  For years, some veterinarians and animal advocates have known about the potential danger of sodium pentobarbital residue in commercial pet food, yet the danger has not been alleviated."
  
  
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  She continues on to reveal, not only is your dog eating dead pets, but he or she is also eating the collar, ID tags and plastic bags they are put in..
  
  "It is not uncommon for thousands of euthanized dogs and cats to be delivered to rendering plants, daily, and thrown into the rendering vat—collars, I.D. tags, and plastic bags—to become part of this material called "meat meal."
  
  So to all of you I think the vegetarian recipe sounds alot safer then any Commercial Dog Food

  By  mammajan13, at 4:06 PM, September 07, 2007  

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