We call CindyLou our "Wonder Dog." Cindy had a very rough start in life. She was a "flood dog," a refugee from the flooding that accompanied Hurricane Floyd as it passed through North Carolina. She was rescued by the Coast Guard in the area of Rocky Mount.
It was fate that brought us CindyLou
Fate brought Cindy into our home. My wife Margie volunteered my pickup truck to drive up to Rocky Mount and pick up pets that had been abandoned during the hurricane. She carted Cindy and several other survivors to the NC Vet School in Raleigh,
Her first view of Cindy, a three month old German Shepherd mix, was at first heartbreaking. A number of people came to the vet school to adopt a pet. Margie saw a man approach Cindy. He knelt down and she jumped up putting her front legs around his neck. Obviously she wanted love and attention. The man stood up and went on to look at other dogs.
Margie called me on the phone and suggested we get a pet. I said, "Get a small one."
This is going to be one big dogWhen I first saw Cindy, with the long gangly legs I knew we had a big dog in the making. In a week or so she developed a cloudiness in one eye. The vet school gave us a prescription for the infection but it only got worse. Her left eye had to be removed. Since she was only about three months old, they could not give her a "glass eye."
Her adaptation to our home was a trial. She destroyed over $3,000 worth of Berber carpet as well as tearing off the trim around chairs and couches.
I hope we started her on home-cooked meals in time
Cindy is now 11 Years old and still relatively healthy. But we've learned that most dogs only last from 11-13 years. I wondered why that is when some dogs live to be 20 years old or more. I found the answer and I'm helpless to reverse the problem.
Cindy was always a fickle eater. We tried dry and canned dog foods. She preferred table scraps, sticking her nose up at the commercial stuff we put in her bowl. So for the past several years we have been cooking her daily meals. But were we providing her the proper nutrition-probably not.
A shocking video
Just recently I came across a video while searching the Internet for dog food solutions. It made me sick! I had been under the impression that commercially made dog food was mostly horse meat. It seems that this is only a small part of the ingredients. I learned from an online video that the one major city sends hundreds of tons of dead dogs and cats to a "rendering plant." This mostly road-kill isn't cremated, it is used as "protein content" in dog food!
What is in some dog food is enough to gag a vulture
In fact, the renderer doesn't always remove flea collars. They just get ground up in the mix. The problem is that pet foods aren't regulated like the foods we humans eat and the government is doing a lousy job of that too. Many of these pets are euthanized with a powerful drug-but it is not listed on the list of ingredients in the dog food you buy.
I have more information below. If you love your pet like we love CindyLou, you will get the facts and learn the recipes you need to keep your pet safe and healthy. The video is just 8-minutes long. It's a small investment in time to get the facts about commercial pet foods and what you can do to prevent the premature death of your beloved pet. Please click here ==>Dog Food Secrets
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