Newspaper article about feeding dogs

I hate articles like this why don't they actually interview the owners of dogs at that have healthy long lived dogs. This would be easy to do via vets handing out questionnaires to those with older dogs? Questions like what do you feed? How much exercise? Lifestyle of the dog? Surroundings? We have a scottie who is 11, a westie who is 13 and had a jr who lived until she was over 17. I say over as when we found her we don't know how old she was but had her for 17 years. My friends collie was also 17 when she died. What were they fed on? Tinned meat all of them. Moderate exercise and stress free environment. That's how our dogs live long and happy. As all those articles are saying is if you feed rubbish its bad for a dogs weight/ health there is so much more to it than that
 
Kaylum said:
I hate articles like this why don't they actually interview the owners of dogs at that have healthy long lived dogs. This would be easy to do via vets handing out questionnaires to those with older dogs? Questions like what do you feed? How much exercise? Lifestyle of the dog? Surroundings? We have a scottie who is 11, a westie who is 13 and had a jr who lived until she was over 17. I say over as when we found her we don't know how old she was but had her for 17 years. My friends collie was also 17 when she died. What were they fed on? Tinned meat all of them. Moderate exercise and stress free environment. That's how our dogs live long and happy. As all those articles are saying is if you feed rubbish its bad for a dogs weight/ health there is so much more to it than that
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Erm, because it isn't the healthy dogs that are taken to the vets??

I've always avoided feeding commercial dog foods except in an emergency but I did have some interesting discussions with someone who used to work in the industry and he reckoned I'd be better off feeding pig rearing pellets! I've never tried it, but it does sound logical. Pig farmers tend to feed what gives the best results without being influenced by the shape, colour, palatability, flashy advertising, etc. which can't be said for dogs or their owners! Both dogs and pigs are by and large omnivores….and I've seen what goes into the tins.
 
Surveys/articles/programmes on all sorts of subjects in life make me laugh sometimes. "Revealing" what anyone with half a brain knew already.
Did anyone really think a tin of chicken pet food contained only the meat of chickens. !!!!
How expensive would that be, even using old battery hens.

As far back as I can remember (and I'm fairly ancient) it was joked, oh yes chicken dog food, 1 chicken to 1 horse.

It seems almost every other day some amazing revelation about something obvious to most people is released to educate us poor idiots.
 
I don't think dogs are omnivores. Left to make their own choices the only vegetation they would eat would be the stomach contents of their herbivore prey, and the odd grass or herb to self medicate.

Wild pigs are mainly herbivore with some meat intake in the way of grubs etc. Although I believe given the free choice, a pig would eat more meat than a dog eats veg.
They are not at all the same in their dietary needs.
 
All my dogs go to vet? Every year for their annual checks on teeth and health and vaccinations. Pretty easy to give out questionnaires to the owners of older dogs and why isn't there a big outcry about cats and what their fed? Meow meow
 
I think it's a very useful article in terms of educating people who buy whatever advertisers tell them to - even if flouroescent kibble which produces bright orange poop should be telling them. And yes, I see piles of the stuff in different location every day and wonder why so many owners think it is normal.

Wish some companies would spend more on quality and less on dressing dogs up in space suits for television.
 
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