Walk a Dog a Day: Keep the Doctor at Bay
Sounds corny, I know! The thing is, when you’ve got a dog, you just have no trouble feeling glad to be alive. If you get close to forgetting, the dog is there, reminding you with its infectious joy.
We have been enjoying the most glorious Autumn (that’s Fall if you are in America) weather here in New Zealand (well, the part I live in, anyway) and I’ve been far too busy in the garden to be at the computer writing (so my blog suffers, oh well…). You know, those fantastic, golden days with the sky so blue and the leaves on trees all shades of red, brown, orange, yellow and purple. Sky and I have been taking long walks. I love to see her running enthusiastically ahead of me, stopping suddenly to investigate a wonderful smell then taking off again to the next clump of reeds or bushes.
I’m grateful for the golden weather; grateful that I am able to live in such a beautiful part of the world; grateful for many things. But I’m especially grateful that I still have Sky, who is 16 now, though you’d never guess it. To see her now, it’s hard to imagine that two years ago she was so low in her health I was thinking she would have to be put to sleep. Family and friends who have witnessed the change in her are amazed.
How did it happen? Simple: I changed the way I feed her! I stopped feeding her expensive “special formula for senior dogs” kibble and started feeding her with what I call “real food.” Her general well-being and vitality improved dramatically within six weeks. It was like a miracle.
Since then, I have become passionately interested in dog nutrition. I’ve done hours of reading and research; I’ve found that others have had similar experiences: some have unfortunately lost their dogs so I consider myself very lucky that I still have Sky. The awful pet food scandal of March 2007 erupted, with thousands of pets dying from being fed artificial food. This doubly convinced me that I was right to keep feeding Sky with real food.
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