TWENTY POINTERS FOR SUMMER CARE

twenty basic but sound tips and helping your dog enjoy summer! 1. The dog run should be shaded with shade cloth and/or fast growing vines, for example pumpkins or chokos. 2. Sand, earth and grass runs should be kept constantly damp to prevent them becoming dustbowls....

CHOOSING YOUR DRY DOG FOOD

In recent years Australia has witnessed a huge increase in the number of dog dry foods readily available. The bulk of the products are actually imported, the produce of foreign countries, and in most other cases the companies are actually based overseas although using...

YEAST – BREWERS OR TORULA?

Yeast is often used as a supplement for dogs. What does it do? Yeast is a high energy food that is extremely rich in the vitamin B group. Its beauty is that it occurs naturally and hopefully the vitamins are contained in a useful proportion, rather than some arbitrary...

BASIC NUTRITION by Barbara L Irving BVSc

The nutrition of a dog starts with the nutritional status of his dam, with particular emphasis on her mineral status. It has truly been stated that half the breeding is in the feeding. So what do we do to ensure that the nutrition is right. Dogs need nutrition to...

MEAT IN PERSPECTIVE

Meat is a valuable food source for ourselves and our canine companions. The smallest baby puppy can begin to successfully digest meat from about ten days of age. The oldest dog, with a healthy digestive tract, can digest meat; meat is an integral part of the...

WILD DIETS

The natural or wild diet of a dog reflects its ability to hunt and/or harvest. The ferasl packs of dogs may adopted several ploys for food gathering, hunting as a pack, hunting as pairs, hunting as individuals, scaveraging from other pack kills, scaveraging from human...