(The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care #4) Do Dogs Require a “Balanced Diet”?

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The notion that every meal an animal eats should be completely balanced is a recent invention resulting from the use of packaged foods. If you were restricted to the same food in the same amount every day for the rest of your life, each identical meal would have to be nutritionally balanced because you would have no other source of nutrients. But you don’t eat this way, you don’t feed your children that way and animals in the wild don’t eat that way. It’s completely unnatural. What matters is not whether tonight’s dinner contains 100 percent of every nutrient your body requires but whether all of the combined foods you eat today or this week provide them.

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  1. I dont know if this will actually get read my comment… I started a course in natural pet care and one of the books is the encyclopedia of natural pet care. My dog has cancer and upon reading 2 parts in this book about willard water, it could be interpreted in more than 1 way. It is not very clear how to administer and I wound up following page 106 “add one ounce of either clear or dark willard water per gallon OR ONE AND ONE-HALF TEASPOONS PER QUART. it does not say to dilute in gallon then take 11/2 teaspoons from that. So I took 1 quart of water and only put 1/4 of a teaspoon from the willard water concentrate and for 4 days my dog has had diarrhea and vomiting. This is not clear in the book.