EnglishBabe
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Location: Beaver Springs, Pennsylvania
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We always feed our dogs as soon as we get them home from hunting. That is the best time to feed, because their muscles are loosened up and sore and the protein helps build more muscle, to repair what the dog used in hunting. In the summer, a dog doesn't need as much fat and protein, it only goes straight through and you are left to clean up what the body didn't need. You can feed and feed, but if the body doesn't need the food, it just passes out what it didn't use and you are left cleaning up piles of DOO.Cut back on the fat for sure. They need higher fat in the winter to keep warm, but not in the summer. To much protein will harm their kidneys too.
The best dog food I have found yet is Prism. I've fed that for 3 yrs. now and my dogs do awesome on it. I feed 26/18 all year long and my dogs stay in good shape.
Check you ingredients list. Whatever is listed first is what the dog food is mainly made up of. You want a meat base ingredient first, not ground corn or cooked corn. Also I do not feed anything with soy in it. Soy produces gas (you know, they get the farts) and I know of dogs that have died from bloat, eatting a dog food with soy in it. We lost a super nice Walker to bloat and the food we were feeding had soy in it. Vet said that is most likely what caused the bloat.
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