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Feeding Schedules?
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I also look to nature for my animals feeding schedule. Animals do not eat every single day in the wild (canines come from a natural wolf, man made the dog because of certain wanted characteristics/traits; but man has never changed the biological nature of the beast.) Simply put my dogs and cats eat raw(uncooked-no heat involved, even to dethaw the meats) at certain intervals. I have no set schedule to feeding my animals.
This is called "fasting", depending on what "religion" you believe/follow we humans have a time set aside for it. In the animal kingdom fasting is called nature. This fasting is a time for the animal's body to cleanse itself, it is in the animals nature and biological make-up to do so.
Today's Tuesday and my animals will not eat till tomorrow, Monday night's feeding gives them literally 36 hours to get back into tune. Even though I fed small portions to them Monday morning and evening, they did not eat since Friday at Noon. This 2-3 day period is something I do every other week, but usually do not feed my animals for 2 single days a week to allow them to fast. The fast process is a cleansing and emotion controller in humans, but to the animal it is literally the best health tune up I have seen. I have seen my own animals fight off eye infections, injuries and whatever simply by letting their bodies work naturally.
I personally stopped eating 3 hours every night before bed. I noticed over the last 2 years I have been sick less and have actually kept a 30 inch waist, because my body isn't busy digesting food while I sleep and is actually cleansing my body while I sleep like Nature intended my body to do.
Animals have the best recovery system to health in this world, we humans try to use drugs and whatever can make a buck such as the new thing in human/animal care.
Like I wrote under the lymphoma entry, proper nutrition leads to a healthy immune system, but you have to start from the ground up. Adding the newest product to bad food products doesn't help the animal at all, yes you might feel better about doing it, but what does it do in the end, really nothing at all - the underlying issues are still there.
I hope that we all learn more about our animals and their proper care to put an end to all these diseases that we have given our animals.
Posted by
2.0paradox
- December 21, 2010 at 9:46 am
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Just to clarify the eating process.
Most people have heard the term, "runs right through me" kind of like eating Chinese food so to speak.
My animals food is solid and they have to chew most of it to swallow. It is thicker then say kibble and keeps my animals fuller longer.
Imagine if you will substance here for a moment. Your kibble is similar to a saltine cracker for us, it basically melts in the mouth and no real problem eating it, right? Well we chew and dissolve the cracker before we swallow it, your animal can't do that; they lack certain tools we humans have. Now imagine my animal's meat chunks to say a kernel of corn, both have to be chewed or torn apart regarding Doxies anatomical structure, the way their teeth sit in their mouths as opposed to us humans.
My teeth close on top of each other, and your Doxie's teeth - go take a look and see for yourselves. All canines and felines teeth/jaw sit inside each other forming a scissor pattern regarding the back molars. You Do Not Need A Degree in Veterinary Medicine, just a few minutes and a mirror to see the truth.
Simply look at your teeth coming together in the mirror, they sit right on top of each other, then move your jaw sideways and then back and forth. Your jaw can move in 3 different directions or 6 different directions depending on how you see it. Now look at your canine's jaw. Go ahead don't be scared...the truth is always scarier then fiction trust me!!!
When you open your dog's mouth and start to close it you'll notice the lower jaw sits inside the upper jaw forming a clamping structure so to speak. This means when your Doxies close their mouths those fangs/k-9s/upper & lower canine teeth lock the jaw into place not allowing the jaw to move forward or sideways, which by the way throws out the notion of dogs chewing and grinding their kibble.
This little demonstration hopefully showed you why and how my animals eat the way they do for the healthiest lifestyle I can give them to resemble Nature and The Wild.
There are food bowls made to keep your dog from swallowing food quickly, this again is unnatural because dogs and cats gulp their food. When the food is unnatural is when you have the problems of choking a dog or a cat.
Kibble is hard & dry, meat is soft and wet. If my animals can not swallow a piece of meat, they will re-cut it to an appropriate size for swallowing/gulping.
This concludes the diet lesson for 2010. There are many websites out there for knowledge regarding correct feedings of raw meats and why we do it. We do it for the health of our dogs and cats.
I personally do it to piss the people off that charge you fees for this knowledge. Knowledge equals freedom and power...... Holding knowledge back makes no sense to me - the kibbles, the cans, and the pharmaceutical companies have enough money from what I see.
Posted by
2.0paradox
- December 29, 2010 at 12:19 pm
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