I’ve always believed that it’s important to feed my pets the healthiest diet I possibly can in order to ensure their health. Even when I had reptiles (yes I had several lizards at once believe it or not!) I used to make special salads for my iguana and prepare special food to feed the crickets that were fed to my lizards. So you can only imagine that now that I have a dog how careful I am about her food.
Luckily there are high quality dog foods out there – you just have to do a little research to make sure it really does have quality ingredients like those described in the above information.
My Labrador Retriever Midnight has been eating quality dog food since she came to live with us at eight weeks of age. She was quite ill when we got her and we had to give her a lot of tender loving care to make her healthy.
She’s four years old now and she’s doing great. Obviously from the photos and stories that I post every now and then you can see that she’s a great dog.
She has a great personality and I think she might even have a sense of humor .. because she’s downright silly … just look at this last picture – I swear she posed for this by rolling over with her favorite bone in her mouth. I call her my silly girl.
How do you care for your dog? Do you try to feed your dog a food with quality ingredients?
I just received a new edition of my ASPCA newsletter and one article in particular caught my eye. It was about the increased incidence of pets being poisoned by the Sago Palm. This plant can also be quite toxic to young children.
A chemical in the plant called cycasin is toxic and often causes permanent liver damage as well as neurological damage if enough of the poison is absorbed by the body. The seeds are the most poisonous part of the plant, although all parts of this plant are toxic, and the effects on humans are seizures, coma and death. Of course the seeds are an attractive reddish color so children and possible curious pets might be drawn to the plant.