RE: [pyrnet] chronic diarrhea

["Custode, Adrienne" <acustode@rational.com>]

You are right, I probably exaggerated a bit when I said "it passes right
through them", but it IS less digestible than rice for example. I used to
feed foods which included corn as a major ingredient and I was picking up
after the pups several times a day.  Since I went with foods which don't use
corn as an ingredient, their waste is much smaller and less frequent.  I
think this is part of the problem with the premium grade dog foods I
mentioned previously... they are much richer and as a result are often tough
on sensitive stomachs.  I am not a dog food expert, but I have read many
articles on the subject of preservatives, byproducts, digestibility etc, and
I've had to modify the diet of my beast to try to address her reactions.
I've also lost 2 dogs to cancer who were fed cheap foods preserved with
ethoxyquin for most of their lives which caused me to seek out more
information.  Much of the info on the web has to be taken with a grain of
salt because it is produced by the companies who are manufacturing the
foods.    

Here is an independent link which defines what is in the dog foods and talks
about how to interpret the labels:
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/wolfepack/foodcht1.html
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/wolfepack/premium.html

One other note which I think pertains to humans and dogs... when you
discover the diarrhea, you can try putting well cooked brown/white rice into
their food and it can temporarily help to address the issue until you figure
out the cause.

Hope this helps.
-adrienne in CO




-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Weisser [mailto:lmweisser@home.com]
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:20 PM
To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
Subject: Re: [pyrnet] chronic diarrhea



----- Original Message -----
From: "Custode, Adrienne" <acustode@rational.com>

tons of filler
(like corn which passes right through them but can't be digested) >>

I certainly don't want to get into a discussion of various types of dog food
and what may or may not be in them except to say that I feed a very
inexpensive food made in the west, feed it to all my dogs of all ages and
stages and have no food allergies and no skin problems and no digesgive
issues except connected to real illness.  However, I do want to address
this.  It is simply NOT true that corn passes right throuh dogs and can't be
digested.  If that were true there would not be so many satisfactory corn
based foods.  Corn eaten off the cob is often not disgested.  The corn in
dog food and the corn eaten by millions of Latin Americans is not eaten in
kernel form but dried and ground and often treated with lime.  And this form
of corn is the staple of the diet of these people and completely digestible
(for dogs too)  If we're going to talk about food, let's be sure that we
understand what really happens.  BTW, the most common food allergens in dog
food are beef and wheat.

Linda





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