Diets for Dogs?

Just as dangerous as

Diets for humans!

So your dog's been put one one of those 'measuring cup diets for dogs' because your dog is apparently 'too fat'? How does that impact on your pet?

If we are exposed to a lie often enough, we begin to believe it – that’s the way propaganda works. Just as in the human world, our minds are often being messed with by a media that is making us perceive normal sized dogs as abnormal (too fat), and abnormal (skinny) as normal. There’s a reason for this… diets for dogs is BIG business.

Dogs CAN get Anorexia!

Because here’s the problem: the dog industry is trying to do to our dogs what the modeling industry does to their cat-walk models – get them to slim down into a skinnier shape that they are meant to be. BUT, as with humans, when our dogs aren’t fed hamburgers, chips or chocolates – they do not become obese! No one becomes obese through eating as much of the right food that they need! We don’t need to put our dogs on diet – we just need to provide them with enough of the right food.

No person or dog, dies from eating as much of the correct food that they want – but billions have died through not eating enough of the right food!

Dogs know how much they need to eat

Here’s what we need to remember – only the dog or the person themselves knows how much they need. And being permanently hungry, is a dreadful place for any human or dog to be! We all know that when our hunger is satisfied, we are much pleasanter to live with! The same goes for our dogs.

Who would ever believe how the introduction of a simple device like the measuring cup would change things for dogs. The measuring cup is equivalent to diets for dogs bit like calorie counting is for humans! (But worse – because they have no control, and therefore cannot “break their diet” when it becomes intolerable.)

Why? Dogs experience great anxiety when their food bowls are empty.

Hunger = Behaviour Problems

Did you know that if you're having behavior problems with your pets it may be because they've taken on some of our 'human' eating habits - the ones to do with restricted and deprived being supposedly good for us. But here's the interesting thing: Pets respond with relaxed eating to exactly the same body-wise eating principles as humans do!

Measuring our dogs’ food without taking into account their:

• individual metabolism,

• the amount of calories they use up, their activity levels,

• the temperature of the day (animals all eat more when it is cooler because a high percentage of their fuel goes toward keeping them warm when temperatures drop)

means that many dogs run out of fuel.
And what happens when your dog burns up more calories than are taken in? As with humans:

• the body starts feeding off itself as famine sets in and the metabolism becomes destabilized, teaching the body to store for future famines. (This is why diets for dogs and humans alike make you fat!)
• the anxiety that the hunger causes (which does not show in dogs in the same way as it would with a human) leads to burn-out and sudden (“inexplicable”) death in many dogs – just as it does in anorexic humans.

• The immune system breaks down, as the undernourished body begins to lose it’s résistance to disease. Next thing you know, you've got LOT’s in vet bills so it’s very profitable for the disease industry.

You know all those enticements that get us to think our dog is obese (or we are professionally advised that our dog is obese) – remember how underfeeding causes the very problems we’re trying to avoid. Diets for dogs and humans is BAD NEWS!

The New Research Findings by the International Institute of Canine Mental Health shows dog owners how to:

For a copy of these documents look under Free Tips by clicking here: - enhance their relationship with their pets;
- give them much more control over their dogs;
- save an arm and a leg on expenses;
- cure behavior problems, and
- bring harmony into their homes.

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