Article du Whole Dog Journal sur l'alimentation maison

[layla04 0]

Voici un article intéressant que j'ai reçu aujourd'hui par courriel concernant l'alimentation maison pour chien. Comme il provient du Whole Dog Journal, il a été écrit en anglais. On dit principalement qu'il importe de suivre 3 règles de base soit : 1- la variété 2- que ce soit équilibré 3- un bon apport en calcium. Comme je ne suis pas assez bonne traductrice, le voici donc dans son texte intégral :

Home-Prepared Diets for Dogs

Why Switch Your Dog to Homemade Diet At first, it seems counterintuitive that a diet change would affect disorders like environmental allergies, seizures, or arthritis, but there are several factors involved. Poor-quality and overprocessed ingredients, artificial colors and preservatives, hormones, antibiotics, and other chemicals can contribute to overall ill-health and create or increase allergic sensitivity. Carbohydrates that are often 50 percent or more of dry dog foods are harder to digest than animal proteins and can lead to inflammation in the body. In contrast, homemade canine diets, particularly those that have few or no grains or starchy carbs, are higher in protein (which supports both the skin and the immune system) and are easier to digest (which can improve the health of the digestive tract and keep the body's immune system from becoming overreactive). Grains and other carbohydrates may cause problems due to allergic reactions, gluten intolerance, difficulty digesting carbs, or other factors. If your dog is overweight or suffers from any of the ailments listed above, you may want to try feeding a homemade diet without grains or starchy carbs to see if your dog improves. Healthy dogs also benefit from a homemade diet. Fresh foods supply nutrients in their natural form, whole and complete. Processing causes foods to lose much of their nutritional value, which must then be added back in synthetic form (that long list of chemicals at the end of dog food ingredient lists). Processed foods can also contain potentially harmful substances, such as oxidized fats and acrylamide, a carcinogen formed when high-carbohydrate foods are cooked at high temperatures. When you prepare your dog's food yourself, you control all of the ingredients, making it easy to avoid any foods your dog may react to, and to adjust the diet as needed based on weight, activity level, health conditions, and any other specific needs your dog may have. There are many different types of homemade diets, including raw and cooked diets, with or without grains; diets that contain whole, raw, meaty bones or ground raw bone; diets without bone that use a different form of calcium supplement; and diets that add fresh raw or cooked foods to a commercial pre-mix. While feeding a homemade diet sounds like a good idea, it's not easy to figure out what that entails, or how to ensure that you provide all the nutrition that your dog needs. Despite what some will try to tell you, there is no one "right" way to feed your dogs. Each dog is an individual, and what works for one may not work for another. The best way to feed your dog may also depend on how much time and effort you are able to devote to putting together a proper diet. While fresh foods are healthier than processed foods, a good commercial diet is better than a poorly designed homemade diet. If you don't feel comfortable preparing a diet yourself, you can still improve the diet you feed by adding fresh foods. Three Basic Rules Feeding a homemade diet is not as complicated as it might seem. There are only three rules: 1. Variety 2. Balance over time 3. Calcium Variety means feeding lots of different foods, such as beef, lamb, chicken, turkey, pork, fish, eggs, and dairy. Vegetables, fruits, and grains can also be added in limited quantities. Variety also means feeding different parts, such as muscle meat, heart, liver, and other organs. Different types of meat and different cuts of meat all have different nutrient profiles, so you provide a wider nutritional range by varying what you feed. It's fine to use a few staples but you should not feed just one or two foods to the exclusion of everything else. Balance over time: When you feed a homemade diet, it is not necessary that every meal be "complete and balanced" as the commercial dog foods are. Just as with our own diets, it's only important that the diet be balanced over time, with nutritional needs being met over a period of days to weeks. It is only when you feed the same food every day that you need to be concerned about that food alone supplying everything that your dog needs. It is imperative that all homemade diets provide the right amount of calcium. The bones included in most raw diets will supply all the calcium needed. If you feed a diet that does not include edible bones, you will need to add specific amounts of calcium supplements.

[Thalian1 0]

Je ne l'ai pas encore reçu mais ça ne saurait tarder. Toujours intéressant ce journal. J'aime beaucoup la version papier aussi; très bons articles.

[layla04 0]

Thalian a écrit:

Je ne l'ai pas encore reçu mais ça ne saurait tarder. Toujours intéressant ce journal. J'aime beaucoup la version papier aussi; très bons articles.

Je trouve aussi Doris. Merci pour tes commentaires... passe une belle soirée!