German Shepherd dog

it's depressing, isn't it? it's really hard to live "green" (ish). i've been trying to switch to organic produce and chicken as much as i can. but what do you do about everything else?!! no matter what you do personally, the amount of chemicals in our daily environment is so high, i don't think we can escape it. i try to use really good foods for the dogs and i do switch a bit more often now, just to try to avoid any build-ups of anything bad or to make sure they are getting enough of something else. what a balancing act. i do know that since i've been buying more organically grown or produced foods, my sons and my allergies are less noticable.

i've also convinced my husband that letting alot of the cut grass stay on the lawns is a better fertilizer than chemical stuff. one small step for the dogs!

Larrydee,

Feeding raw is good if you have your own supply of lifestock. most of the meat that we eat from the store has growth hormoans in it.

Brittany

       You are right regular supermarket food is the pits. especially the meats.    Last year I went on a mission to find out how best to feed my GSD.  My last 2 GSD's died from cancer and I blamed myself for listening to my vet on what to feed them. I have since changed vet's.

With that Said I have completely changed my diet especially when it concerns meat.  I buy all my meats including what I feed my GSD from this local butcher shop.  They specialize in free range natural fed chicken and natural fed black angus cows.  In other words chemical free meat sure it's more expensive but I sleep much better at night.  My Gunner is now on a 90% raw meat diet from chemical free meat.  The other 10% is Orijen kibble.

Two Moons 

                      You are more than right.  I have had more than my share of cancer in my family. It is just a terrible terrible desease.  My son had leukemia at 18years  old a few years ago    Thank God he survived it.  We took him to Dana Farber and the head of the Leukemia divison was his doctor because he had a rare form of the desease.  He is one of the foremost experts in the world on leukemia. He told me and this an exact quote we have no idea how leukemia is caused he used an analogy put a thousand people on a mountan top and lightning strikes one of them that is how much of an idea we have on what causes the desease.             

Yellowrose

                    You are right Kevin Trudeau is right on the money. What I found from my experience dealing with my son's cancer was Astragalus a 200 year old natural chinese herb that really boosts your immune system the more you take the stronger your immune system gets.  Since I have been taking it around 5 years I have not been sick or even had a common cold..  This is the last thing doctors want you to know about because it costs $5.00USD for a bottle of 100 pills.  Believe me this stuff really works.       A year ago when i visited my daughter at college she was in bed with a bad case of the flu I put her on Astragalus and 24 hours later she was a new person feeling great.  Also the japanese use the Maitake mushroom to treat cancer it is a stronger version of Astragalus.      If you read Kevin Treudeau's book there are tons of natural remedys that cost little or nothing that the medical profession roundly dismisses but are great and really work.

Two moons you are right i believe cancer is a lot of the time hereditary ,having had a lot of my family members and grandparents cousins get cancer .

Kevin Trudeau, no thank you....   If you want to know about herbal cures and ancient medicines they have been written about for so many years, long before Kevin was even born.     Kevin is a clown as far as I'm concerned.  

Chemicals?  They are in us all right now.  Its in the air, in our food and water, hell its in the pots and pans we cook with.  All of us have teflon in our systems right now.    Lead , mercury, DDT, cloridane, nicotine sulfate, poly vinylcloride, formaldihide, chlorine.    This is the world we have created.   Cancer is a dieing organism that can't survive either because its too toxic or too weak to fight the toxin.   I have been exposed to Gypsum, asbestos, nictotine, crop dust containing herbicides and pesticides, not to mention living down wind of a power plant and a paper mill, and then there is my love of the combustion engine and all of that crap I have inhaled all my life.   Which one do I blame my failing lungs on?   The bodies immune system was not designed for these kinds of things, I dont care what kind of cure you have in a bottle. 

So you see its not just the pet food is it.

Deal I would suggest posting a new message with your question if you want results.  It would be a good topic.   I am no expert but if your dog has digestive problems try grinding everything up whatever your feeding to make it easier to digest.

My Mother does alot of holistic, I use to ignore her. Until my female kept getting a bladder infection and we could not get it cured. she would test for high acid, bacteria, cystals in the urine. I kept getting 2 of them knocked out, then one would come back. I looked at the meds I was giving her with the warnings, Liver and /or kidney damage. I bought a book of natural cures for dogs. Vitiamin C, apple cider vinegar, cranberry capsules. In 7 days all was gone and less than $20.00.  I no longer ignore Mom on all things natrual. However, I do get concerned about to much of it and mixing and matching, when we do not have the education for it.

Another thing, I put in new carpet a few years back, the smell was outrages and lasted for months. Carpet again and had them use enviroment friendly glue, no smell. Anybody else notice, for a few years, I bought a newchandlier, Light bulbs kept popping/going out within week with very little use. I thought it the fixture had a short. Now it does fine and the bulbs last. I am thinking, It was like when we first started to have things shipped over from Japan, use to be a standing joke "the am/fm radio", now they make a car that last 200,000 miles (learning curve). I think we are on a learning curve from China  on how the products are made and the chemicals that go in them..

i would have like my vet to advise on that one to!