Diet for Pregnant Dogs

For the pregnant dog, the most important thing in her naturally based diet is to give her raw food. In the previous pages I described how cooking causes the general degeneration of all the digestive system, from the teeth until the lower part of the intestines. Cooked foods gets stuck around a deed and provoke tooth decay and weakness in the formation of the jaw, due to the fact that the bones and muscles of the jaw don't make enough exercise with the food that has been softened by heat; canned foods are even worse. The gastric juices are weakened because cooked food is already semi-digested in the process of cooking, and thus the potent gastric juices, so natural for a dog, are not completely required or used. The potent stomach and intestine muscles with which carnivores have been blessed (the gastric juices and intestinal muscles are capable of breaking over to solving partial substances as hard as bone pieces, skin and hair, pieces of gristle or cartilage, etc.) weaken and diminish. This, along with the gastric juices, as they are deprived of their legitimate mission and insufficiently use -- in the same way as the damaged member kept in splinters for a long time, become weak and finally wrinkle. Therefore, so that the unborn litter can be wholly nourished, the diet of the mother has to consist basically on raw foods, with exception to the rule that the cereals have to be semi-cooked. Often, more or less around the fourth week of pregnancy, the dog will reject her food and will self-impose a voluntary fast. It is some the very frequent and is due to digestive discomforts caused by her state. On these occasions you shouldn't try to deceive her into eating. At most, you can give her a diet based on fresh, raw milk and honey. Her normal appetite will come back and increase.

You will immediately observe that a healthy dog requires much less food than another that is in a bad state of health. I remember the huge quantities of food that I used to give my dogs when I was a school girl, almost always with two or three dogs under my care; these memories always surprise me. For example to my St. Bernard, I used to give almost a complete pot of ready-made dog food plus pieces of cooked meat. My dog used to eat that copious amount of food, but would never put on weight and always suffered eczemas and hereditary illnesses. It wasn't a surprise! My greyhounds have reached a good height and enjoy good health with their daily ration of approximately 500 g of raw meat, for to five days a week, as well as 200 g of whole wheat cereals. In fact, the Essenians, a sect from the Middle East, really smart guys they were, stated that for a very good health, no human being should consume more than 800 g of food a day. This point makes us meditate if breeders and other dog owners take into consideration the enormous quantities of food that they are giving their dogs. The real solution lies in that a healthy organism uses up to the tiniest particle of food that it's given, or as a sick one the next the food pass the semi-digested by the intestines, thus requiring twice as much in order to avoid getting too thin and other precarious health conditions, resulting from undernourishment.