Changing to Preservative Free Diet
You might face quite an amount of trouble while changing your dog’s diet to a preservative free diet. Especially when your pet dog is finicky about the taste of the food provided for eating. In that case, keeping your pet on a fast for couple of days can help it to overcome the distaste experienced while eating the food which is though not quite tasty but free from harmful preservatives. Fasting would help your dog to set for a new diet. It will also detoxify the body of your pet which was used to in consuming commercially prepared diet. The following steps might help your dog to get accustomed to a healthy preservative free diet. Read the rest of this entry »
The inquisitive nature of dogs has often led to a lot of troubles for them. Apart from deliberate intents dogs may also get poisoned accidentally. Household dogs may suffer from poisoning if they happen to have taken in poisoned baits that are targeted for rodents, ants, slug and snails. These baits are though poisoned but smell and taste good in order to attract the mice and rats. The chemicals that are mainly added to the bait are sodium fluroracetate, arsenic, lead, zinc phosphate, phosphorus, arsenic, metaldehyide and warfarin. 
Fleas are one of the most common infestations occurring in dogs. The incidence of fleas is mainly seen in dogs that are suffering from ill health and suppressed immune system. In fact, fleas are absent in dogs that enjoy a good health and stable physical conditions. Fleas are active in hot dampened summers and become non existent in the winters but they take no less time to reappear in the consequent summer season until proper flea control methods are implemented. The following are some tips to control flea infestations. 
Stress is not only limited to man but has also affected the animals that stay in close proximity with him. The complexity of the present day life has actually led to the inability of the natural instincts of dogs in coping up with the unnatural circumstances. The pet dogs of the daily households are subjected to large scale chemical injections that confuse the body mechanisms, being fed on unhealthy foods rather than freshly caught preys of older times, staying in an isolated shelter far away from its natural wild herd. The present day busy schedule of urban city life provides limited time for the masters to take out their pet dogs for a regular routine of exercise that otherwise keeps dog healthy and physically fit. 
Until in recent years the occurrence of the disease diabetes was quite unknown among dogs and cats. Earlier it was examined the dogs to be more prone to the disease than cats. But now days it has been seen that both the dogs and the cats are equally vulnerable to the disease. One of the primary reasons behind the development of the disease is the low quality foods that are fed to the dogs. Most of the commercial dog foods that are available in the markets have low nutrition content and high levels of chemicals, preservatives, sugars and such. The semi-moist commercial food packets are especially to be avoided to keep your dog safe from the disease. Stress and shock are the catalysts to accelerate the process of development of the disease. 
Other than meat extracts the dog foods contains vegetable fibers, grain extracts and chemicals. The vegetable fibers are mainly extracted from the grounded corn cobs, corn husks, peanut hulls and such. These vegetable matters are in reality condemned for human consumption as they are nutrition less. The ingredients used for manufacturing dog commercial food are in most cases contaminated with bacteria, debris, molds and odors. The corn and the wheat that are commonly used in the pet food may be allergic for many breeds of pets. 
The old saying goes, “You are what you eat”. In fact this quote goes well with both humans and animals. What cats and dogs ate in the pre-human wild (or what people ate a hundred years ago) was far cleaner, safer, fresh and uncontaminated food, water and air that is seriously decreasing our companion animals’ lifespans - and our own. It is the same lack that is destroying our planet. This situation must be changed quickly if animals, people and the Earth are to survive.