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| Apr 24, 2008 3:09 pm |
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re: re: re: re: Nutro Pet Food Information |
Ann Rader
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Hi Gretchen,
I understand your sentiments and the pet food recall of 2007 was horrendous! It's really hard to know who to trust when it comes to pet food manufacturers. A home-cooked diet is an excellent choice for a dog or cat -- providing that the diet is complete and balanced. If it's not, nutritional deficiencies will have an insidious effect on your pet. And it can be difficult to trace heart disease, organ disease, joint disease, blindness, to diet. However, I urgently recommend that you contact the veterinarians on http://www.petdiets.com and have them formulate a balanced diet for your dog.
The menu you list here is wholly inadequate and unbalanced. How do you know that your dog is receiving enough Taurine for heart and eye health? Did you know that fat provides the energy by which the essential amino acids contained in meat are utilized by the body and that the protein/fat ratio should be at least 50 percent (by weight) fat to the protein content? What percentage of your dog's diet is useable protein -- do you have any idea? I could go on but I won't -- there are many other deficiencies here. You cannot start adding different vitamins to correct these shortcomings -- you need a balanced and complete foundation. I feel badly that you've been mislead by people on the Internet who don't know anything about the basics of nutrition. Dogs and cats are very complex and need very specific nutrients. It's not easy formulating a pet food.
If you have any questions or if I can help with anything, please let me help you.
Best, Ann
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