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Nutrition, Bones and Raw Food (BARF)What should you feed your Chihuahua? The answer to this is to feed your chihuahua what they do best on. There are many different varieties of commercial dog food available which are perfectly suitable for Chihuahuas, for example Pedigree Rehydratable for baby puppies. Another way to feed your Chihuahua is by using the BARF diet and the following gives some information on this. Bones and raw food diet is basically recreating a dogs natural choice of food. To do this we must try to understand what a wild dog eats. Dogs are by nature, scavengers and opportunity eaters. They will eat almost anything, although obviously the bulk of their diet is other animals. What you must remember however is that they get the WHOLE animal, not just the meat. In fact, in the wild, the muscle meat is usually the last part of the animal to be consumed. The dog gets almost everything it needs from all the different parts of it's prey. The internal organs, skin, bones etc. Vegetable matter is in the form of whatever that animal has eaten and is now in the stomach & intestines. In fact if there was one complete diet to feed your Chihuahua, I would have to say to give him a whole dead rabbit. Head, fur and all. Ok, that would probably be just a bit inconvenient and a bit hard to handle. (I don't think even I would care for that). Here is a basic guide of what we feed our Chihuahuas on BARF diet. 60% of our dogs diet is nothing more than raw meaty bones from the butcher. Any kind of bone. Beef, lamb chicken necks, etc. The only stipulation is that they MUST be RAW. Never, ever cooked. The remainder is made up of a variety of other foods. ALL RAW. This includes minced meat, fish, eggs and vegetables. Our dogs that are feed the BARF diet are healthy and the condition of their teeth and coat are excellent. Is it a lot of work? I have to be honest, yes it can be but if you are prepared to use this diet then your dog will love you for it and you will definately notice a diffence in their bodies for the good. If you would like to learn more about BARF then visit the following website: www.drianbillinghurst.com (C)Copyright 2007, this article is copyright protected |