I don't know about anybody else on here but would be interested in knowing if this is true for ya'll. I have had dogs around me my entire life but as a child growing up I had never seen a sack of dogfood. My grandmother cooked for the dogs. My grandpa said they should eat what they provided. She would take a pot and boil meat(normally beef or pork) until it fell of the bone, add rice and oats, cook it until it kinda looked like funny oatmeal and feed it. Truth be known it seemed like there was a whole lot less problems with the dogs than then there is now. She would normally crack the big bones in the meat before cooking, she said that was so the dogs got the marrow, and strain the little pieces of bone out before adding the grain. She told me one time that grandpa lost one of his best dogs when it choked on a bone so he didn't want them in there anymore but that was the only dog they lost to it so she really thought he was just being silly. Just wondering if any of ya'll grew up with dogs being fed like that. She was also real big on throwing any extra veggies from the garden in the pot. The dogs normally died of old age or a hunting accident so it couldn't have been bad for them health wise, right?
Agreed 100%!
The dogs 50 years ago were healthier than the dogs of today. They were not over vaccinated, they were not fed processed crap, and most of them died as pups, from accidents or of old age. Unvaccinated pups were not expected to die, dogs didn't die of genetic disorder between 2 and 5 years of age and we sure as hell didnt have a 10 to 15% cancer rate to deal with.
There is this thing we have interfeared with.... It is called natural selection.... Mother nature did her job best. We are doing nothing but do iting up her work.
Steve
