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Fasting For Dogs: Good or Bad?

Q) I have read about the trend for some dog owners to impose a fast on their dogs. Is this healthy and does have any advantages?
How Fasting Can Clean Your Dog’s System From Years Of Poor Diet
If you’re one of the millions of dog owners who occasionally allow your pet to indulge in the delightful [...]

Can Superfoods Help Your Dog Beat Cancer?

Diet is one of the most important factors that govern a dog’s health. Vitality, well being and appearance are all heavily influenced by the nutrients that a dog receives, but is it possible to fight off an already established disease as serious as Cancer with specially selected foods?
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BARF for Behaviour: Is Your Dog’s Diet Leading Them to Misbehave?

‘Natural approach to feeding can improve behaviour according to some experts’
written by Carol O’Herily
To BARF or not to BARF - that’s the bone of contention at the moment in the dog world.
Australian vet Dr Ian Billinghurst’s book Give Your Dog A Bone, which introduced the BARF (biologically appropriate raw food) diet for dogs, threw the [...]

Celebrity Fitness Trainer to Help Fight Pet Obesity

Celebrity Fitness Trainer and Dog Owner Gunnar Peterson Teams Up with the Alliance for Healthier Pets to Save Pet Lives
Chubby pets are no laughing matter. Obesity affects nearly 50 percent of the total pet population and can lead to serious conditions including heart disease, arthritis and a shortened life expectancy. That’s why celebrity fitness trainer [...]

Pet Food Myths Busted!

What you should and shouldn’t feed your pets
Many of us feed our pets what we think they like as opposed to what is right for them. The Pet Food Manufacturers Association are keen to dispel some of these common myths and set the record straight for pet owners everywhere.
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Beware The Grapes of Wrath (Or Your Dog Could Die)

The wrath of grapes was, unfortunately, all too familiar for many dogs and cats in 2008 as a US based pet insurance firm released data showing how many toxic claims it had dealt with last year. For many dog owners, they are unaware of which foods can prove toxic to dogs until it’s too late.
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Expensive Pet Food Brands No Better Than Cheap Pet Food?

Appeal For Grossly Obsese Dog Who Weighs as Much as a Child

Meet Patch, a six year old Beagle Cross recently brought to Dogs Trust Glasgow. He weighs a whopping 4.5 stones (28.45kg), the average weight of a six year old child.
Rehoming centre staff are desperately hoping 2009 will see him shed almost half his bodyweight to reach his goal of 2.4 stone (15kg), but the path [...]

Own a Fat Dog, Go Straight to Jail

Government Barking Up The Wrong Tree On Fat Pets
written by Catherine O’Driscoll, Canine Health Concern
New codes of practice state that people who refuse to put seriously fat pets on a diet could be prosecuted under the Animal Welfare Act, facing a fine of up to £20,000 or 12 months in jail. Proposed [...]

Breakfast Bars to Help Fat Dogs (Yes, really)

Is your dog a porker? Would you like to make them trimmer? Well help is at hand, now there is - just like for the human market - a meal replacement breakfast bar for our canine pals. The advantages of the
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Survey Claims Dog Owners Are Swapping Dog’s Diet From Meat to Vegetables

40% of pet owners now feed their pets up to three portions of fruit and veg a day and according to the new research by pet insurer LV= there are now more than 145,000 cats and dogs in the UK on a vegetarian diet. In turning their
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Pedigree Dog Food Recalled Amidst Salmonella Scare

The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company in the United States, following a recall by MARS Petcare US, Inc., announced it is removing PEDIGREE(R) Small Crunchy Bites and PEDIGREE(R) Large Breed Complete Nutrition dry pet food products from sale. MARS Petcare has issued a national recall of these products because of
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Pet Food Best Before Dates - An Insight

written by Susan Thixton A recent article posted on The Consumerist website brings up a very good point (and lesson) that pet owners should take note of… The article comes from a pet owner whose Yorkie became ill, and after a couple of days
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Thousands of Pets Die in Contaminated Pet Food Incident: Two Businesses to be Indicted

Two Chinese businesses and their top executives, along with a United States company and its owners, were indicted by a federal grand jury today, in separate but related cases, for their roles in manufacturing and importing a tainted ingredient used to make pet food, which resulted in the death and serious illness of countless pets [...]

Pet Food Recall Fears Set to Benefit Natural Pet Food Manufacturers

Safety Concerns Expected to Breed $1.2 Billion in Sales Growth for Natural Pet Products Market
Consumer concern over pet food safety, stemming from the spring 2007 pet food recalls, combined with an already high consumer interest in natural and organic products, will propel the market for natural pet products from $1.3 billion in 2007 to $2.5 [...]

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