Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Aspects That Can Provide Your Dog With A Long, Healthy Life

By Lena Hellsten

It has never been more popular to have dogs than it is today. We sure love our dogs and we often wish that they could stay with us a while longer. Nowadays dogs usually live only a bit more than 10 years. Scientists are suggesting that dogs actually could become as old as 35 years old which is a lot more than the average of today.

Considering that dogs are living only about a third of what could be possible one have to understand that there must be things we could do that would be a whole lot better for our dogs. Perhaps it is time now to change the trend? To give your dog a long and healthy life there are a lot of things that combines will provide this.

Something that definitely has the ability to add a few extra years to your dogs life is the choice of dog food. The dog food that is being sold today has an extremely low nutritional value and some of the types can even be harmful for your dog. Luckily there are great alternative that you can choose instead of this.

People that does make the switch from the poorest kinds of dog foods to better types of food that is natural and with better nutritional value often notice a remarkable change in the dogs overall health. They tend to have more energy in a balanced way, the coating becomes shinier and the teeth are healthier.

This is no surprise considering that we indeed build our bodies out of the food we eat, and this is true also for the dogs. We know that eating fast food is less good for our bodies than a lot of fresh vegetable etc. Dog food thats found on the market can often be compared to the worst types of fast food.

If you want to give your dog better dog food you can choose to cook for it yourself. This need not be neither more costly nor take up a lot of your time. What you should keep in mind still is that there are some foods that humans normally eat that you cant feed your dog. It is important to avoid those ingredients altogether since they could be even fatal to your dog. By choosing other ingredients and having a good balance between protein, fat and carbohydrates as well as vitamins and minerals you can be sure youre dog is getting something really good.

There are lots of other things apart from the food your feeding your dog that can prolong the life expectancy of your dog and make it more happy and healthy. By spending the time to find out what you can give yourself and your dog an even more wonderful time together.

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