My Dog Will Not Eat!

Throw out the bag of dog food! Before you pooh-pooh me, let me assure you I am not making this up, nor am a health food nut and I'm not here to sell you any product. I fed what I thought was the best commercial dog food for years and now that I've made a change, I can't believe I didn't understand this years ago.

Dog food manufacturing is BIG business and that is all it is. Everything from skin irritations, dry dull matted fur, bad breath, digestive problems and lethargy can just disappear in a month or so after changing your dog's diet to real food.

Other Reasons a Dog Will Not Eat

• Excessive tarter buildup and bleeding gums
• Short term illness - digestion takes energy. A dog's loss of appetite actually helps the healing process.
• Recent vaccinations. Vaccines can be far more toxic than you realize, causing finicky eating or not eating at all.
• Canine inflammatory bowel disease
• Dog liver disease problem - especially if accompanied by a distended abdomen by fluid, diarrhea and vomiting

Taking all this into consideration, if your dog wont eat some of the time but his or her weight is normal, perhaps he just isn't hungry. I used to have a dog like that. Actually I still do, but he NEVER misses a meal anymore.

What happened? I started making my own dog food and giving raw meat with bones on days I didn't want to cook. Even if my proportions aren't perfect, I am convinced it's not the percentage of protein, carbohydrates and fats that count, but the QUALITY of the sources. I believe Bonz knew instinctively that commercial dog food wasn't good for him so he only ate enough to survive. He was thin, but not skinny. Three days a week he would flip his full bowl upside down and act like he was burying it. Now he eats every morsel with gusto and is the perfect weight.

Here is something written nearly 100 years ago by Arnold Ehret:

Nature wants to save you! Disease is merely Nature's effort to start performing the process of healing - the elimination of wastes and disease matters that clog up your tissue system. Listen to the instinctive advice of Nature unfailingly given to both man and animals:

"Give me a chance to eliminate; to repair your bodily mechanism! Take time to be 'sick' for a few days or even weeks. Remain still, quiet, rest, sleep and DON'T EAT!"

Somewhere along the line we seem to have gotten this backward. We try to force our family members to eat when they don't feel well to give them strength when it really does the opposite!

What You Can Do

If your canine goes through bouts of not eating, here's what you can do to increase appetite, improve dog health and lengthen his life span at the same time:

• Change to a healthy dog diet.
• Stop unnecessary vaccinations to prevent illness. See Over-vaccinating.
• If your dog will not eat, learn how to help him fast in a healthy way. See Fasting For Health.
• Add quality supplements to her diet. See Health Supplements for Dogs.
• Never underestimate the value of good water.






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