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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I can’t prove why some dogs get pancreatitis and
others don’t, probably no one can, but we all probably agree it has to do
with what the dogs are eating. So the great pet food debate rears its
ugly head again. I would like to point out that there are a few
things we all need to think about while engaging in the great food
debate. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>There was no such thing as dog or cat food (dry or canned)
until the 1930s, when the meat processing and grain processing industries got
together to try to figure out what to do with the leftover byproducts that can’t
be used for people food. They came up with pet food. Stuff that can’t
be put in people food. That’s part of what is in kibble. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Domesticated animals have been fed table scraps for
thousands of years and they flourished. However, we all need to think
about something else here – up until some time in the 1960s, most Moms
stayed home, and they cooked all our meals from mostly fresh ingredients –
there were no fast food joints on every corner, no frozen “convenience”
foods full of chemicals and preservatives and hydrogenated fats and oils, and eating
out at restaurants was a rare treat. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Food today is nothing like the food our parents and
grandparents were raised on. Which means, table scraps today are generally
not like table scraps used to be. Most people in “civilized”
countries have very unhealthy diets today. Feeding a dog leftover fast
food is maybe okay once in a blue moon, but there are some dogs that have very
touchy tummies, just like some people, and junk food may do in one dog and not
others. Feeding a dog table scraps is not automatically good or bad, it
depends on whether we’re talking freshly cooked, nutritious food (like my
83 year old Mom still cooks), or something nuked out of a box. Big
difference here. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Many people eat terrible diets today, why do you think there’s
so much asthma, allergies, cancer, diabetes, obesity, autism, etc.? Dogs
and cats eat terrible diets today, too, which explains a lot of the health
problems that they have. Is it better to feed kibble, with all the
byproducts and chemicals, or is it better to feed people food? Depends on
the quality of the people food, a lot of it is full of chemicals and junk,
too. It’s always better to feed fresh, home cooked, no
preservatives and chemicals added food. For pets and for people. What
do you do? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=JanieHmkBold><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:JanieHmkBold'>Anita Woodrum</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net">a.woodrum@sbcglobal.net</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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