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First of all I just want everyone to know there is no one right way to do a RAW Fed diet.
But here are a few
pointers that helped me and hopefully you will take what you need and leave what you
don’t.A few notes on natural feeding and the BARF diet:
1. Grow Your Pups SLOWLY - Puppies get so much protein in his “high quality” dog
food that their body is producing loads of calcium. Puppies should be grown SLOWLY.
That is, at about sixty percent of their growth potential. Here is a great article re: good
protein and bad http://b-naturals.com/Jan2004.php, also here is a great article on
feeding puppies & Seniors
Feeding Puppies and Seniors
B-Naturals Newsletter
June, 2006
By Lew Olson,
PhD Natural Health, LMSW-ACP
Feeding Puppies and Seniors
Since we have covered nutrition and diets for dogs in the last ten newsletters, it is time
to address the needs of puppies, growing dogs and senior dogs. Although the basic
nutrition needs are the same, there are a couple of important things that need some
specific attention when it comes to feeding our young and older dogs.
Puppies
In today’s commercial pet food market, we can find both adult and puppy diets. An
emphasis on diets for puppies is fairly new. Puppy food was introduced in the seventies,
with Purina Puppy Chow being probably the first food introduced solely for puppies. The
diet differences were minimal, but the food was marketed as having ‘powdered milk’
coating and smaller sizes kibble nuggets to accommodate the smaller size of a puppy.
Some focus was placed on adding calcium or feeding higher calcium foods, but in reality
the idea of feeding diets higher in calcium to puppies is a bad idea and can cause harm.
"In addition to excessive calcium intake, researchers have shown that over nutrition can
also initiate these disturbances in skeletal maturation and growth. An excess protein
intake, without an excess of other nutrients revealed NOT to influence skeletal
maturation and growth in growing Great Danes (Ref. 2).""Disturbances of skeletal
growth were also seen in research animals (Great Danes), which were energy
restrictedly raised on a food with a normal calcium level (1.0~56 calcium on dry matter
base, according to the requirements of dogs as followed by many of the manufacturers
and owners for dog food preparation). Therefore we now advise to raise dogs,
vulnerable for these skeletal diseases, on a balanced food with a calcium content
decreased to 0.8 or 0.9% on dmb (dry matter basis)."
Further, the above article goes on to state: "Therefore it is advised not to feed young
dogs ad libitum or excessively, to prevent the development of (causative factors for)
osteoartrosis. It is also common practice to advise a weight loosing programme to those
dogs which suffer from osteoarthrosis as an aspect of conservative treatment or as an
aid in surgical treatment of dogs with ED (elbow dysplasia)." www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu
To feed puppies on a raw or home cooked diet, I would recommend three guidelines.
1) Home made diets: If your home made diet does not include raw meaty bones,
supplement calcium at about 900 mg of calcium carbonate per pound of food served. If
your home made diet does include raw meaty bones, you do not have to supplement
with calcium carbonate as there is sufficient calcium in the bones. You do however,
want to make sure that 40% to 50% of the home made diet is raw meaty bones. If the
diet includes more than 50% raw meaty bones, it can lead to excessive amounts of
calcium which can be harmful.
2) Puppies need animal protein for healthy growth and building strong organs, skin
and coat. Puppies can’t have ‘too much protein’.
3) Do not free feed puppies. Offer very young puppies three to four meals a day,
and decrease meal frequency only after teething is completed (six to seven months)
Supplement recommendations for puppies include:
Ø EPA Fish Oil. – 1000 mg per ten lbs of body weight. The omega 3 fatty acids are
important for brain and nerve development and provide a healthy skin and coat.
Ø Berte’s Ultra Probiotic Powder. This contains healthy flora and fauna to help keep
the stools firm and help keep a healthy digestive tract.
Ø Berte’s Daily Blend. This powdered blend contains vitamin C, vitamin E, B complex
and vitamins A&D. It also contains kelp and alfalfa for the trace minerals.
Seniors
Another new phenomenon is the advent of “Senior Dog Food” This market was
developed because of obesity in older dogs and the false belief that senior dogs need
less protein. These diets are full of fiber, have higher levels of carbohydrates and
reduced amounts of fat. This type of diet results in dogs that are less satisfied causing
them to appear hungry and beg for more food. The ingredients lead to the loss of coat
and skin quality and they do not lead to any weight loss. As most of us humans have
learned, reduced fat diets lead to more food cravings and a feeling of not being satisfied
after a meal. Adding more carbohydrates and reducing fats will not lead to a reduction in
weight, it will create more weight gain. And the lack of protein (especially high quality
animal proteins) will cause loss of health. Proteins are necessary for maintaining the
health of the kidneys, heart, liver and skin and coat quality.
While in the past it was believed that excess protein might cause problems in dogs, it
has been shown that dogs have the ability to metabolize excess protein. Protein is an
essential part of the canine's diet, and is necessary to sustain life and maintain the
integrity of the internal organs.
More recent studies show today that it is harmful to restrict protein in senior dogs and
that high quality proteins are needed for our older pets.
www.speedyvet.com/NIP/olddogs/default.htm
www.cm-d.com/buckeye/tech_manual/8_28.html
To feed senior dogs on a raw or home cooked diet, I recommend these guidelines.
1) Do not restrict protein, but instead offer a variety of high quality animal proteins,
including beef, lamb, fish, pork, dairy products and eggs.
2) If your senior dog is overweight, try reducing fat. This would include using low fat
dairy yogurt or cottage cheese, trimming excess fat from meat or draining excess fat
from cooked meat and avoiding fattier meats such as lamb and pork.
3) Reduce carbohydrates in the diet, especially the starchy or high glycemic types
such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots and green peas. This would also include
grains (all types) and rice.
Supplement recommendations for Senior Dogs include:
Ø EPA Fish Oil. These help with cognitive functioning and are also renal, liver and
kidney protective. The omega 3 also helps to provide a healthy coat and skin.
Ø Berte’s Immune Blend. For healthy seniors, I would give this at half dose. This
blend contains high amounts of antioxidants including vitamin C and E. It also has B
complex, which assists in protecting kidneys and nerves. Lastly, it contains some
digestive enzymes and probiotics which aid in proper digestion.
For further information on diets, please refer to the following:
Putting It All Together – Cooked Diets for Dogs
Putting It All Together - Raw Diets for Dogs
Rearing Puppies on a Raw Diet
Protein Amounts and Puppies
Proteins, Kidneys and Senior Dogs
Next months newsletter will be the last in the 12 part series on Canine Nutrition, so until
then, Bone Appetit!
Product Specials
Free Freight Friday is June 16, 2006: Any orders placed on this day only over $75.00
will be shipped freight free (continental US only) via UPS Ground. Mark this date on
your calendar! NOTE: Qualifying orders will have freight deducted at the time the order
is shipped and processed.
Newsletter Notes
Please make sure your SPAM filter allows emails from rotts4life@comcast.net to make
sure you don’t miss an issue of the B-Natural’s Newsletter and also lewolson@earthlink.
net if you have a question for Lew Olson and are waiting for a response. Many emails
are bounced back because of SPAM filters.
If you have missed any of the previous newsletters, you can view them in their full
context in the Newsletter Directory of the B-Natural’s website.
If your email address has changed and you would like to continue receiving the B-
Naturals Newsletter, please send us your new email address and your old email address
to the B-Naturals Newsletter.
If you have suggestions on how we can make the B-Naturals newsletter better, please
send them to B-Naturals Newsletter
B-Naturals
PO Box 217
Rockford, MN 55373
1-281-392-3935 -- Lew Olson
1-866-368-2728 -- Toll Free - Product Orders/Questions/Comments or
1-763-477-7001 -- Phone
1-763-477-9588 -- Fax Product Orders
Click this link for Orders, Shipping and Product Updates – bnaturals1@aol.com
Click this link for Consults, Seminars and Catalogs – lewolson@earthlink.net
DotBravo Co.
You have permission to copy and distribute this newsletter to others provided it is not
distributed for profit, proper credit has been given by the author and B-Naturals and it
has been copied and distributed in its entirety.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2. IT DOESN'T’T HAVE TO BE HARD Find good sources of supplies...... When I first
started out I almost gave up because of all the information out there. I made it more
complicated than it really was. The key word is KISS ( Keep It Simple Sister )
Everyone finds out what works for their dogs and goes with it. Their are many good
books out there for reference. If this is the method of feeding you choose take your time.
My Dogs diet consists of 50% Raw Meaty Bones and 50% Muscle Meat. They receive
their RMB'S in the AM and their Muscle Meat at night. With 7 dogs I use OMA'S pre-maid
mixes for the PM and add to it.
I add eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, Tripe, Canned Mackerel, Garlic. The pre-maid mixes
already contain vegetables and organ meat. Every other day I add a little Fruit Slush. I
also rotate some and give just muscle meat which consists of Ground Turkey, Beef
Heart, Hamburger, Venison, Pork.
For Supplements I Use :
Salmon Oil rotated with Cod Liver Oil
Vit C
Vit E every other day
Bertes Immune Blend or Astralagas
Cranberry
Vit B Complex ( for pregnant females )
Now how do I figure how much food they get...
Every Dog is different.
My adult dogs get 2-3% of their current weight daily and I divide that in 2 so,
50% AM & 50% PM
Puppies usually get 10% of their current weight or 2-3% of their estimated adult weight.
Their is a great spread Sheet to help you calculate feeding at:
www.rawdogranch.com
Compliments of Mike & Laurie Stromberg.
My puppies get 40% RMBS and 60% Muscle Meat
My RMB'S consist of Chicken Necks, Backs, Leg Quarters, Drumsticks,
Turkey Necks, Backs, Pork Necks, Beef Necks.
My Muscle meat is any type of Meat that does not contain Bone.
But here are a few
pointers that helped me and hopefully you will take what you need and leave what you
don’t.A few notes on natural feeding and the BARF diet:
1. Grow Your Pups SLOWLY - Puppies get so much protein in his “high quality” dog
food that their body is producing loads of calcium. Puppies should be grown SLOWLY.
That is, at about sixty percent of their growth potential. Here is a great article re: good
protein and bad http://b-naturals.com/Jan2004.php, also here is a great article on
feeding puppies & Seniors
Feeding Puppies and Seniors
B-Naturals Newsletter
June, 2006
By Lew Olson,
PhD Natural Health, LMSW-ACP
Feeding Puppies and Seniors
Since we have covered nutrition and diets for dogs in the last ten newsletters, it is time
to address the needs of puppies, growing dogs and senior dogs. Although the basic
nutrition needs are the same, there are a couple of important things that need some
specific attention when it comes to feeding our young and older dogs.
Puppies
In today’s commercial pet food market, we can find both adult and puppy diets. An
emphasis on diets for puppies is fairly new. Puppy food was introduced in the seventies,
with Purina Puppy Chow being probably the first food introduced solely for puppies. The
diet differences were minimal, but the food was marketed as having ‘powdered milk’
coating and smaller sizes kibble nuggets to accommodate the smaller size of a puppy.
Some focus was placed on adding calcium or feeding higher calcium foods, but in reality
the idea of feeding diets higher in calcium to puppies is a bad idea and can cause harm.
"In addition to excessive calcium intake, researchers have shown that over nutrition can
also initiate these disturbances in skeletal maturation and growth. An excess protein
intake, without an excess of other nutrients revealed NOT to influence skeletal
maturation and growth in growing Great Danes (Ref. 2).""Disturbances of skeletal
growth were also seen in research animals (Great Danes), which were energy
restrictedly raised on a food with a normal calcium level (1.0~56 calcium on dry matter
base, according to the requirements of dogs as followed by many of the manufacturers
and owners for dog food preparation). Therefore we now advise to raise dogs,
vulnerable for these skeletal diseases, on a balanced food with a calcium content
decreased to 0.8 or 0.9% on dmb (dry matter basis)."
Further, the above article goes on to state: "Therefore it is advised not to feed young
dogs ad libitum or excessively, to prevent the development of (causative factors for)
osteoartrosis. It is also common practice to advise a weight loosing programme to those
dogs which suffer from osteoarthrosis as an aspect of conservative treatment or as an
aid in surgical treatment of dogs with ED (elbow dysplasia)." www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu
To feed puppies on a raw or home cooked diet, I would recommend three guidelines.
1) Home made diets: If your home made diet does not include raw meaty bones,
supplement calcium at about 900 mg of calcium carbonate per pound of food served. If
your home made diet does include raw meaty bones, you do not have to supplement
with calcium carbonate as there is sufficient calcium in the bones. You do however,
want to make sure that 40% to 50% of the home made diet is raw meaty bones. If the
diet includes more than 50% raw meaty bones, it can lead to excessive amounts of
calcium which can be harmful.
2) Puppies need animal protein for healthy growth and building strong organs, skin
and coat. Puppies can’t have ‘too much protein’.
3) Do not free feed puppies. Offer very young puppies three to four meals a day,
and decrease meal frequency only after teething is completed (six to seven months)
Supplement recommendations for puppies include:
Ø EPA Fish Oil. – 1000 mg per ten lbs of body weight. The omega 3 fatty acids are
important for brain and nerve development and provide a healthy skin and coat.
Ø Berte’s Ultra Probiotic Powder. This contains healthy flora and fauna to help keep
the stools firm and help keep a healthy digestive tract.
Ø Berte’s Daily Blend. This powdered blend contains vitamin C, vitamin E, B complex
and vitamins A&D. It also contains kelp and alfalfa for the trace minerals.
Seniors
Another new phenomenon is the advent of “Senior Dog Food” This market was
developed because of obesity in older dogs and the false belief that senior dogs need
less protein. These diets are full of fiber, have higher levels of carbohydrates and
reduced amounts of fat. This type of diet results in dogs that are less satisfied causing
them to appear hungry and beg for more food. The ingredients lead to the loss of coat
and skin quality and they do not lead to any weight loss. As most of us humans have
learned, reduced fat diets lead to more food cravings and a feeling of not being satisfied
after a meal. Adding more carbohydrates and reducing fats will not lead to a reduction in
weight, it will create more weight gain. And the lack of protein (especially high quality
animal proteins) will cause loss of health. Proteins are necessary for maintaining the
health of the kidneys, heart, liver and skin and coat quality.
While in the past it was believed that excess protein might cause problems in dogs, it
has been shown that dogs have the ability to metabolize excess protein. Protein is an
essential part of the canine's diet, and is necessary to sustain life and maintain the
integrity of the internal organs.
More recent studies show today that it is harmful to restrict protein in senior dogs and
that high quality proteins are needed for our older pets.
www.speedyvet.com/NIP/olddogs/default.htm
www.cm-d.com/buckeye/tech_manual/8_28.html
To feed senior dogs on a raw or home cooked diet, I recommend these guidelines.
1) Do not restrict protein, but instead offer a variety of high quality animal proteins,
including beef, lamb, fish, pork, dairy products and eggs.
2) If your senior dog is overweight, try reducing fat. This would include using low fat
dairy yogurt or cottage cheese, trimming excess fat from meat or draining excess fat
from cooked meat and avoiding fattier meats such as lamb and pork.
3) Reduce carbohydrates in the diet, especially the starchy or high glycemic types
such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots and green peas. This would also include
grains (all types) and rice.
Supplement recommendations for Senior Dogs include:
Ø EPA Fish Oil. These help with cognitive functioning and are also renal, liver and
kidney protective. The omega 3 also helps to provide a healthy coat and skin.
Ø Berte’s Immune Blend. For healthy seniors, I would give this at half dose. This
blend contains high amounts of antioxidants including vitamin C and E. It also has B
complex, which assists in protecting kidneys and nerves. Lastly, it contains some
digestive enzymes and probiotics which aid in proper digestion.
For further information on diets, please refer to the following:
Putting It All Together – Cooked Diets for Dogs
Putting It All Together - Raw Diets for Dogs
Rearing Puppies on a Raw Diet
Protein Amounts and Puppies
Proteins, Kidneys and Senior Dogs
Next months newsletter will be the last in the 12 part series on Canine Nutrition, so until
then, Bone Appetit!
Product Specials
Free Freight Friday is June 16, 2006: Any orders placed on this day only over $75.00
will be shipped freight free (continental US only) via UPS Ground. Mark this date on
your calendar! NOTE: Qualifying orders will have freight deducted at the time the order
is shipped and processed.
Newsletter Notes
Please make sure your SPAM filter allows emails from rotts4life@comcast.net to make
sure you don’t miss an issue of the B-Natural’s Newsletter and also lewolson@earthlink.
net if you have a question for Lew Olson and are waiting for a response. Many emails
are bounced back because of SPAM filters.
If you have missed any of the previous newsletters, you can view them in their full
context in the Newsletter Directory of the B-Natural’s website.
If your email address has changed and you would like to continue receiving the B-
Naturals Newsletter, please send us your new email address and your old email address
to the B-Naturals Newsletter.
If you have suggestions on how we can make the B-Naturals newsletter better, please
send them to B-Naturals Newsletter
B-Naturals
PO Box 217
Rockford, MN 55373
1-281-392-3935 -- Lew Olson
1-866-368-2728 -- Toll Free - Product Orders/Questions/Comments or
1-763-477-7001 -- Phone
1-763-477-9588 -- Fax Product Orders
Click this link for Orders, Shipping and Product Updates – bnaturals1@aol.com
Click this link for Consults, Seminars and Catalogs – lewolson@earthlink.net
DotBravo Co.
You have permission to copy and distribute this newsletter to others provided it is not
distributed for profit, proper credit has been given by the author and B-Naturals and it
has been copied and distributed in its entirety.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2. IT DOESN'T’T HAVE TO BE HARD Find good sources of supplies...... When I first
started out I almost gave up because of all the information out there. I made it more
complicated than it really was. The key word is KISS ( Keep It Simple Sister )
Everyone finds out what works for their dogs and goes with it. Their are many good
books out there for reference. If this is the method of feeding you choose take your time.
My Dogs diet consists of 50% Raw Meaty Bones and 50% Muscle Meat. They receive
their RMB'S in the AM and their Muscle Meat at night. With 7 dogs I use OMA'S pre-maid
mixes for the PM and add to it.
I add eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, Tripe, Canned Mackerel, Garlic. The pre-maid mixes
already contain vegetables and organ meat. Every other day I add a little Fruit Slush. I
also rotate some and give just muscle meat which consists of Ground Turkey, Beef
Heart, Hamburger, Venison, Pork.
For Supplements I Use :
Salmon Oil rotated with Cod Liver Oil
Vit C
Vit E every other day
Bertes Immune Blend or Astralagas
Cranberry
Vit B Complex ( for pregnant females )
Now how do I figure how much food they get...
Every Dog is different.
My adult dogs get 2-3% of their current weight daily and I divide that in 2 so,
50% AM & 50% PM
Puppies usually get 10% of their current weight or 2-3% of their estimated adult weight.
Their is a great spread Sheet to help you calculate feeding at:
www.rawdogranch.com
Compliments of Mike & Laurie Stromberg.
My puppies get 40% RMBS and 60% Muscle Meat
My RMB'S consist of Chicken Necks, Backs, Leg Quarters, Drumsticks,
Turkey Necks, Backs, Pork Necks, Beef Necks.
My Muscle meat is any type of Meat that does not contain Bone.
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