Over the years, we have tried a huge variety of diets that were considered by
many to be the best you can give your dogs. Some have been very good, and others
have been lacking, but we are now feeding a diet that is quickly becoming very
popular for those who take the time to ensure that their rottweilers are given
the absolute best. In a nutshell, this diet represents very closely what our
domestic dog's ancestors have eaten for hundreds of years in the wild. That is,
a raw diet consisting of the same balance of nutrition that a healthy wild
canine predator would receive in an ideal environment that is rich with food
sources. To learn more about this diet we feed, click on the following links and
read each article:
Article #1
- Why traditional processed and packaged dog food is not the best diet you can
give your dog
Article #2 - An excellent
diet to consider
Article #3 - Why dogs
need to eat raw bones
Article #4 - A single
food source that is a nutritionally complete diet on it's own
Basically, we feed our adult dogs two meals a day. The first one is a bone
meal consisting of maybe a pound of raw chicken, or maybe an equivalent amount of
turkey backs or beefy bones. The second meal usually consists of Petcurean
premium dog food, along with a vegetable/fruit purees that we make up and vary
the ingredients. We also mix the Petcurean formula with an equal portion of any one of a
variety of high quality foods, such as uncleaned tripe, liver and other organ
meats, raw fish, or ground raw deer meat. With this meal we add a high quality
multi mineral supplement like Daily
72. Cod liver or Flax seed oil is generally given a couple of times a
week, along with a pro-biotic like Conkin's
Fastrack. At certain times of heavy workload or stress for a
particular dog, we may also add other supplements as well. For instance, we may add
rasberry leaves to a female's diet who is coming into heat soon, and if we
breed her we will continue to give this supplement until she is finished
weaning her puppies. A stud dog with a busier than normal schedule might be given an increased
amount of vitamin E, and perhaps an occasional raw egg.
We always try to vary our feeding program, so that our rottweilers get a variety of fresh
and wholesome foods. This avoidance of routine is also completely natural, and
we believe that this adds to the promotion of superior health for
our canine companions. Great care is taken to only acquire foods that are
completely natural and un-contaminated. For example, we purchase our raw
chicken and turkey from an Amish farm that raises them free range, avoiding
any steroids or other chemical additives known to promote fast growth. In
addition, no pesticides or other chemicals are added to the grains that they
feed on, which also is important not to pass down the food chain. In short,
our dogs probably eat better than we do!
Our approach to nutrition is indeed extreme, but we only want the very best
nutrition for our dogs and of course our family as well. The vegetable/fruit
puree that we add to our dog's meals is prepared with a product that uses the whole
food and not just the juices. In many foods, the peeling of a fruit or
skin of a vegetable contains more vitamins and minerals than the rest of the
food itself does. Therefore, to get the highest level of nutrition from the
food we feed our dogs, we use a product called the Vita
Mix. This is not typical food "blender", but rather a
commercial grade pulverizing machine that is powerful enough to liquefy even
the core, skin, and seeds of the largest and toughest of fruits and
vegetables. Therefore, our dogs (and family) get the maximum amount of
nutrition from the foods we buy, and we are not wasting and discarding the
most nutritious part of the meal
Lastly, but just as important, is the water that we give our dogs. Our
rottweilers are given fresh purified water daily, without the harmful chlorine
and other additives that city water normally possesses. This is extremely
important, as studies have shown that water additives are suspected of many
health ailments in dogs including a possible cause of sterility. Also
important is that the water is purified of fluoride, which has been proven to
be harmful to health and is responsible for many reproduction problems in both
animals and adults. Fluoride is found in almost all city water all over North
America and overseas as well. To remove this chemical, typical water purifiers
fall short. Even a reverse osmosis system cannot remove fluoride from water,
even though it is very expensive and far superior to most water purification
systems. However, the best system that we have found and currently have in our
home is a water distilling system. We use a product called the Durastill,
and we are extremely happy with the performance of the unit and water that it
produces.
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