http://pupculturemagazine.com Celebrating Canine Culture Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:52:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://pupculturemagazine.com/the-food-dilemma-choosing-your-dogs-food/#comment-5 ToonieLady Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:52:29 +0000 http://pupculturemagazine.com/?p=823#comment-5 The outside of our dogs have changed much but the insides have not. National Geographic wrote an article some years ago comparing our domesticated canine pals with their wild counterparts and found a genetic similarity of less than 2 percent. Yes, dogs are scavengers but they can not live well or long on a high grain diet. They don’t have grinding molars to grind the grain, they don’t have the enzyme in their mouths to begin the digestion of grain and their stomachs are more acidic and hold on to food longer than animals that are designed to eat grain. Love the last paragraph that touches on the food history of breeds… having Shelties, I try to incorporate more fish, chicken and lamb, popular sources of protein on the Shetland Islands where they originate.
The only other thing I want to point out is the reference to enzyme rich foods from the innards of animals. Raw is best. When you cook foods you kill the enzymes.
Good basic article… well written.

]]> http://pupculturemagazine.com/delicious-cranberry-coconut-treat/#comment-4 ToonieLady Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:29:07 +0000 http://pupculturemagazine.com/?p=994#comment-4 Baking gingerbread for the humans tomorrow… going to try these for the canine kids. They sound great!

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