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Food, as expected, is insanely important.
Ask your vet for some recommendations. When we got our Lab, she was a few years old and was fed Dog Chow or Kibbles & Bits or something along that line. Her hair was wiry and she even had a thinning spot on her back. We switched her food immediately to something of better quality, and within a few weeks her hair softened up and her thin spot eventually grew out.
The problem with commercial foods is they don't often have science and research to back up their formulas. We feed our dog and cats brands that we know we can trust based on good research. And cheaper food often means cheaper ingredients or cost-saving blends (fillers).
That said, I would never feed my dog or cats a regular diet of raw food and table scraps. (Cooked table scraps are a rare treat only.) Nor would I feed them a cheap national brand picked up at the grocery store.
Oh, and crate training, ftw. Seriously.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 02-21-2010 at 03:43 PM..
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