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There are a few dog feeders who foolishly insist that meat is the apparently thing a dog should ever be fed. Meat alone is altogether insufficient for a dog. The foremost lack in a diet of meat is its want of calcium. lf the meat is trimmed of plump there is similarly liable to occur a lack in force. There are some other deficiencies , but none as dramatic as these two.

Meat , nevertheless , is the unmarried most indispensable source of protein fed to dogs. Thousands of tons of horse meat and beef are used each year in fabricating commercial dog foods. Hundreds of tons more are fed as a supplement to commercial foods or in home-made rations.

When fed as an addition to a balanced commercial feed , meat can be more up to 10 percent of the weight of the mixture. When more in any greater amounts it will dilute the commercial feed to the extent that the diet will no longer be balanced or adequate. When used as the sole source of protein in a home-made ration , meat should constitute at least 25 percent of the total weight of the diet. However , home-made rations should ever contain more than 75 percent of its weight as meat

All meats accept pork can be fed to a dog either cooked or raw , but will normally give more nourishment in the raw pronounce. Vitamins are destroyed by the heat of cooking. Fat similarly is driven out of meat during cooking , and unless it is poured back into the ration , it will become lost as an force source. The apparently real justification for feeding a dog cooked meat in a homemade ration is because it is pork , or because the dog does not love raw meat. Dogs having a genuine dislike for raw meat are few and far between.

The nature of the animal from which the meat comes does not seem to be too indispensable where protein is concerned. Nutritionally , most proteins from dissimilar animals seem to be regarding equivalent. For years it was contended by some dog owners that pork could not be fed to dogs. Feeding experiments execute not find this to be staunch. In fact , pork liver is probably among the most nutritious livers commonly available to dogs. The apparently restriction which pork has when being fed to dogs is that it be cooked.