Fat supplements for dogs - Page 1

I've been reading people's advice on here on what is good fat to give their dogs. I see lots of suggestions to go to the butcher and use " butcher fats " , fat trimmed off of meats etc, etc . Please , for the health of your pet  DO NOT use these fats . They will give your dog pancreatic problems. These fats can also be very toxic since any toxins the animal eats is stored in their fat . Stick with fish and safflower oils. I give them to my Belgian Malinois and she is a stunning representative of her breed and an excellent example of a healthy diet. 

If you feed dry dog food it has much more concentrated toxins and fluorides from the boiled down city water often used to render the meat and all of the processed products included.  I'll take my chances with human grade food fat or meat for my diet from the butcher or trimmings as would dogs that lives 20 years maximum.  Unless made from human food grade materials all of the dog foods are crap in a bag or a can .. my dogs eat beef fat trimmings during the colder months and they too are healthy specimens.

I give fish oil caps to my dogs, and they have rich shiny coats. Glowing health.

feed your dog what ever you want too, just add a bit of 27% fat hamburger to each meal if you want it to gain weight.
pancreatic problems are either genetic or via infection.
 

Safflower oil is actually not very healthy and hard for dogs to digest. I stopped feeding it. I now feed salmon oil or will feed coconut oil. If a dog is allergic then hemp oil. I don't even eat this myself only frying with coconut oil.

If you really want your pets healthy, feed organic meats. Unfortunately for me, it's out of my price range. Ill settle on chicken with skin on. The pancreas works 3x's as hard on kibble then it does on raw. I too will take human grade fat but It's usually already mixed into the meat I give.

Barb

Fats are not a supplement for dogs .. they are a major food group which serves as an energy source instead of carbohydrates which are needed in only minute amounts in dogs.  The carbohydrate rich grain and plant protein diets that the dog food companies and veterinarians sell for them are not appropriate for the dogs digestive system.  All of the native peoples of the high northern latitudes and their dogs lived for thousands of years on animal proteins and fats before Corn Flakes and Science Diet were invented.

Too much fat can indeed CAUSE  acute pancreatitis in otherwise healthy dogs of all breeds. 

 

I am not aware of any research that fat in the dogs diet causes pancreatitis.  Dogs with pancreatic insufficiency or abnormal function will do worse on high fat diets but to say that fats cause pancreatitis is incorrect as many infectious agents such as leptospirosis have been implicated in pancreatitis in dogs and fats do not cause leptospirosis.  However a high carbohydrate diet has been implicated in skeletal problems and immune system malfunction in dogs.  Corn, wheat and gluten are plant based foods which a dog's digestive system is unable to digest efficiently and may cause side effects and allergies in dogs.  If owners of dogs could see what the commercial non-human grade dog food their dogs consume looks like before processing and sterilization they would puke.

Surf the net, there are articles that support it. 

I'd be absolutely floored by any credible research that shows a high fat diet "causes" pancreatitis in a dog.  It goes against absolutely every physiological path of reasoning and tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary history and evidence.