From hazel Tue Jun 20 01:28:56 1995
Subject: Re: dog veggies 
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 01:28:56 -0700 (PDT)
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Okay, my friend the dog-raiser (Labs) replies...

> From: rez@mogur.com (Rez)
> Subject: Re: dog veggies (fwd)
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 08:08:46 GMT

> Meat protein (beef/pork, *not* chicken) provides the best source for
> dogs.  Used to be all dry dog food contained at least some...but meat
> meal by itself greatly resembles ground-up dried cat shit. Not something
> the average person wants around the house.
>  If you're going to use a canned meat as a supplement, use a meat-only
> product like Evanger's canned horsemeat or canned beef.
> 
> Aside from problems keeping stressed dogs in condition on chicken-based
> diets, and a proven problem with urinary crystals (kidney problems),
> I am developing a suspicion that the combination of eggs & chicken in
> "modern" canine diets is contributing to a relatively-new
> distemper-encephalitis-like problem in puppies... remember that vaccine
> is made from live distemper virus passed thru eggs to attenuate
> (weaken) it below infective level. We already know that pig
> coronavirus, passed thru ducks, is altered to a form that humans
> contract as respiratory flu.
>     If I had any choice (there are no longer any meat/corn based options
> on the market) I would not feed a diet that contained chicken, or eggs,
> in any form (including chicken fat).
> 
> BTW, my original field was biochemistry/microbiology, and I used to
> manufacture my own feed, which outperformed everything on the market.
> (Not practical w/ the five-ton local minumum batch & 100 zillion mice.)
> 
> K.V. Moffet
> Longplain Kennels, Reg'd.
>   (working Labradors since 1969)
>   10 generations of our own bloodline to date.

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