Grand Dog Essentials - Information and Tips to Feeding Your Dog a Raw Food Diet

    I took Philly, our Berne-doodle, to the vet this past January for her routine check up. They told me what I already knew - Philly needs to lose a couple of pounds. Unlike our Golden-doodle, Doozer, Philly seems to fluctuate with her weight ever since she had a litter of puppies.  She has a different body structure than...

    "There are two numbers you need to know about protein, its amount (the only number on the pet food label) and the quality (a number never on the pet food label)." Excerpt from the Dogs Naturally magazine article "The Top 10 Overlooked Diet Rules" by Dr. Richard Patton Kibble companies are falling short on nutrition for your dogs.  They have...

  All animals on the planet are biologically wired to eat a specific way.  Carnivores eat meat.  Omnivores eat plants and meat.  Herbivores eat plants.  Now some may argue about what category some animals fall under.  Some say that dogs should only eat meat and others believe that dogs and wolves can and should eat a little plant matter.  But...

FDA Investigates the Rise of DCM in Dogs On July 27, 2018, the FDA released a report stating they had begun investigating Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) in dogs.  DCM is more common in large and giant breed dogs like Danes, Boxers, Irish Wolfhounds, Saint Bernards, Newfoundlands, and Doberman Pinschers.  Since July 2018, there has been a rise in the number of cases...