I happened to overhear a client who expressed her concern over her dogs diet. Specifically that the dog in question was eating too many "green" things. She was under the impression that too much food outside of their regular (i.e. manufactured) The good news is, just like humans, their is no harm in your dog eating green foods. The exceptions are Onions, Garlic and grapes. In fact, the more they gnosh on from your garden (I repeat: No Onions!) the better. Beans, peppers (not hot), tomatoes, these are all okay. In fact, this is part of their natural diet unless I missed the class in which they discussed the wild dogs of Borneo roaming the grassy savannahs, rummaging for wild growing cans of Science diet chicken and rice formula. In fact, if you watch the video below, you will see the white meat loaf known as Big Tuna, my English Bulldog, sampling items from our garden. She's a good eater.

There is still debate if dogs are canivores or omnivores but I'm not going to discuss that here. You can read an interesting article on diets for dogs on dogfoodadvisor.com.  Take a moment to check out their site. They have a wonderful breadth of information on various diets (such as raw dog food diests, wet dog food, dry dog food) and updates on dog food recalls. they also have a very cool dog food calculator so you can gauge how much dog food your four legged family member should be receiving!

Stay healthy everyone and Keep Wagging!

Monique
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