City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

The dog diet, Kate Bendix

The dog diet

Kate Bendix

VETERINARY NUTRITION. Spoilt your dog rotten? We are what we eat. And the same goes for our dogs...Millions of them are overweight. Their lives have come to mimic our own. And now, over fed, under exercised and stressed, they have begun to take on our shape and disease pattern. Over the past twenty years the rise in obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease and skin problems in our dogs has rocketed. It's not all our fault, far from it. We have grown up feeding our dogs processed cans and kibble because we believed the hype: 'stick to one food, don't deviate'