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What are you doing to your best friend?

 

Daily Dose

 

April 30, 2004

 

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Give a dog a bone

 

Hold onto your leash. Pet supply mega-chains are peddling

over-priced pseudo-foods that are responsible for the

malnourishment of our hounds on a massive scale. Not only

that, they're intentionally steering dog owners AWAY from

the natural raw foods canines really need to stay as healthy

as they can be.

 

By now, you're surely asking: How can this be? Aren't those

expensive, pre-packaged pet foods " scientifically

formulated " and all that? Yeah, they're scientifically

formulated. In fact, the " three basic types " of dog foods

(dry, semi-moist, and canned) are virtually devoid of

nutrition - especially the keep-forever-and-a-day dry

varieties.

 

But here's the good news: Finding and feeding your dog

what's best isn't difficult at all, and the rewards far

outweigh the few minor inconveniences. As far as I'm

concerned, the three basic types of foods that are best for

MY dog, Silky (and every other Fido out there for that

matter) are these:

 

Raw, natural, and fresh.

 

That means several servings a day of uncooked meats like

liver, pork, and chicken livers (chicken necks, too -

they're great) mixed in with plenty of raw eggs. Throw in a

few table scraps of raw vegetables or fruits occasionally

and you'll be giving your pup a diet worthy of a show dog.

Oh, and let's not forget the VERY BEST treat for your trusty

mutt: A big, raw, bone!

 

But the pet superstores recommend all the wrong things, in

all the wrong amounts. For example, take PETCO's web site

(which disseminates the same worthless nutritional drivel as

they no doubt do in their 650+ retail stores), which

recommends: " Some foods must never be fed to dogs... these

include raw eggs and meats, liver, bones, pork... "

 

They even recommend that you NEVER give your dog a bona-fide

bone!

 

What hogwash. These are the very closest things available to

what dogs would eat naturally if well-meaning (but ill-

informed) pet owners weren't training them to munch down a

pile of tasteless, meatless dry kibbles - the nutritional

equivalent of potato chips or other junk foods - every day

on the advice of RETAIL MERCHANTS.

 

As if that weren't bad enough, now dogs have to submit to

their owners' dietary politics. That's right, there are

actually varieties of VEGETARIAN dog food being marketed out

there... (That's funny, since most of it is already

vegetarian, derived from soy.)

 

I feel sorry for the poor pooches that are being force-fed

this stuff - they'll no doubt end up as stunted, obese, dull-

witted, and disease-ridden as their masters surely are. Let

me state this as clearly as I can - a raw and natural diet

is the only way to keep your pooch thin, lean and healthy,

and your vet bills the same!

 

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One for the " bizarre-but-true " file...

 

You may remember me telling you about a pending far-Eastern

line of nutritionally enhanced clothing in a Daily Dose last

fall (11/04). That's right: vitamins, amino acids and other

nutrients you WEAR instead of taking or eating will be very

likely arriving on department store clothing racks within 5

years. But far sooner than that, you may be able to slip

into a pair of tights and get a daily infusion of caffeine

through your skin, without having to bother with (or enjoy,

depending on how you look at it) brewing up a pot of morning

coffee.

 

Whether you'd want to, though, is another matter.

 

Regardless, a leading European underwear manufacturer is

currently marketing tights in the UK that are made out of a

fabric containing microscopic gelatin-encapsulated dosages

of caffeine. Specifically designed to help women lose weight

and inches off their thighs by tapping into caffeine's

metabolism and energy-enhancing benefits, these " Coffee

Tights " are said to be proven to work in this capacity.

Whether or not this is from the added caffeine or simply

from the compressive action typical of any support tights

remains to be seen.

 

Look, these kinds of high-tech shenanigans are all well and

good, but my question is this: Why would anyone WANT to

forego all the great taste (not to mention all those heart-

healthy antioxidants) that a cup or three of java brings to

their day? Isn't that most of the reason why we consume the

things we do - because of their satisfying good taste? This

reminds me of the red-wine-in-a-pill I wrote about a couple

of months ago (2/13)...

 

In my view, this is just another case of doing something

just because we CAN -- without regard to whether or not we

SHOULD. What's next, clothing we can chow down on (or brew

our coffee through) after wearing a few times? Somehow, I

don't think that's what Bart Simpson meant when he said " Eat

my shorts, " but it does put a new twist on things, doesn't

it?

 

This old dog's not buying their nuTRICKtion,

 

William Campbell Douglass II, MD

 

 

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