Is your dog a corn dog? My dog won’t eat. UPDATED!
[Dear Readers, Yes, I'm happy to add "My dog won't eat" to the title of this post so your friends can find it, too. This is the second most searched on subject that I write about. That's a lot of dogs turning down packaged dog food. I'm so happy that you're listening to your dogs instead of adding "gravy" or yummies to encourage them to eat it. Yes, the cooked foods I mentioned in the post below are dog foods, canned and kibble. If the ingredient list of your food has corn or wheat as the first four or five ingredients and you want your dog to be healthy and happy, you might think about trying something better. There are many high quality good foods in the market place if you want to continue to feed dog food because it's convenient to use. SitStay.com has some high quality foods and we'll be adding some more brands for your dog, the next will be Addiction Foods. Let me know if you like any particular brand and I'll see about adding it to the Store for you. Thanks for the questions, concerns, and comments. Darcie]
Trina read her dog food label for the first time. “Are you kidding me! I’ve been feeding corn and wheat to my dogs as a daily diet. That stuff puts the pounds on me so fast, I can’t even look at bread, cereal, donuts or corn on the cob without adding five pounds. Why would I think my dogs could eat it without the same thing happening to them? And they are so much smaller than I am. What have I done to these dogs that I love?!”
Dogs who eat corn and wheat as a daily diet are usually overweight. It makes them uncomfortable emotionally and mentally. They are harder to train and sometimes have aggression problems, too. Physically, it’s a life challenge for them. How do you feel when your body weight is up? Not good, huh.
Corn and wheat add fat to dog bodies just like it does to us humans. Fat isn’t just on the ribs or around the middle of your dog. The heart, liver, kidneys have to work harder when they are full of fat. It makes you wonder if that’s part of the reason that dogs are dying of cancer and heart disease, doesn’t it.
Really. Would you eat breakfast cereal made of corn and wheat every day of your life and expect to feel good? No, of course not. You’d eat meats, poultry, fish, veggies, and fruit. Simple foods. Foods that don’t have to go through a process of some sort are better for all of us. Your dog is the same as you. The only things different from your simple food diet that he needs to have added to his diet are bones and the marrow inside.
Did you know that corn is used to fatten cattle so we can have a nice fat, juicy, marbled steak? (Just in case you didn’t know, marbled means “fatty” and fat makes a steak tender.) Yep. They put cattle in a pen where they can’t run around to run off the fat and then feed them corn. Meal after meal after meal. It makes them nice and fat. Unless you’re going to eat your dogs for dinner, stop feeding them corn.
Raw food for dogs is better in my opinion but if you like a cooked diet for convenience, there are lots of them around that are made of the good stuff.
Read your label. Is your dog a corn dog?
