Your topic One Week Diet was interesting when I found it on Friday searching for healthy diets…

The author Euan Fingal has offered up a free ebook (pdf) to try to help us understand how we might improve our well-being and that of our domestic animals in general, but especially that of our canine companions. The book brings together ample unbiased natural sciences evidence, and the experiences of many naturally oriented caregivers, to clear a convincing swath through the propaganda surrounding well-being, and the misguided understandings it fosters.

To learn more about the book, and to download it, see the journal entry:
http://www.achinook.com/journal/2009/6/18/ol-sheps-well-being-a-natural-perspective.html

Relative to the topic of this blog (diet, which is only part of all the book addresses): What it all comes down to is that to deny that a natural species appropriate diet is a necessary component for natural, optimal well-being, is to deny nature—i.e. the evolution of a species, and its optimal, natural diet [in the true scientific sense].

My best to you and yours,
Lee C

For unbiased scientific information see the “Ol’ Shep’s Plight: Diet”
article at: http://achinook.squarespace.com/

There is also a “lighter” fabricated “Dr. P. Kibble Interview” )

My best to you and yours,
Lee C

5 oz muscle meat (beef, turkey, chicken and chunk chicken)
1 hard boiled egg chopped
2 oz of dairy (plain non fat yogurt or cottage cheese)
–added later
I also add 8 oz of other foods. I include 1 oz of grains (brown rice, oatmeat, barley)
lentals
4 oz of veggies (I use pureed baby food – stage 2 or 3) and I mix up the veggies, I feed him brocoli, peas, green beans, alittle spinach, carrots)
I add in 2 oz of carbs (mashed potato, sweet potato, winter squash)
and 1 oz of fruit- (bananna, mango, berries, unsweetened applesauce etc.)
I sometimes give him canned pure pumpkin. sometimes I add an 1/8 organic minced garlic, honey, wheatgerm, apple cider vinegar, molasses, ginger, parsley, no salt salt, cranberry sauce, ground pecans, walnuts, sunflower seeds (I don’t add all of these at once, but I do use them sparingly so he gets different things) I also give him beef broth, and chicken broth.
I add in 1/2 tsp. ground eggshell for calcium for every pound of food – (14 oz. and dairy before serving) I heat the food back up on the stove (not microwave)

I also allow him to have a raw egg yolk every 10 days (he is only 10 pounds)
he gets fish 2 of 14 meals a week, and he has organ meat once a week. Between 1/2 and 1 oz a week.

He gets purified water to drink, and I add in a splash of milk.
He gets 1000 mg fish oil every other day.
he gets 200 IU vitamin E every 3 days
1 Pet Pro multi vitamin every day for puppies
1 probiotic every day.
In the morning he gets 1 oz added after heating yogurt and in the evening he gets 1 0z cottage cheese.

Is there anything I could be doing different or better ? He seems to doing well on this. he has solid stool, no more soupy poop. I also brush his teeth 3 or 4 times a week.

I have concerns about the muscle meat, should I be feeding him a more fatty diet?

I also have concerns about the grains, as dogs don’t need grains and they are hard to digest. my vet doesn’t know alot about nutrition, and really doesn’t seem concerned about what I feed him, as long as it is balanced. Does this diet sound relatively balanced or do I need to make some changes ? There is so much opinion out there as to what is right, wrong, good, bad, I am just trying to get a feel for this, am I headed in the right direction with this?

Please respond, especially if I am doing something you know will harm my baby.