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Nutrition and Your Dog’s Behavior
By Jeanne Perciaccanto - Ultimate Dog Training
Proper nutrition is a fundamental basic for your dog.
It affects their health and longevity by offering an essential balance of proteins, fats, complex carbohydrates and the trace nutrients and minerals their bodies need for growth, repair and maintains of sound immune system.
Nutrition is a complex and integral part of your dog’s ability to think clearly, lower stress levels and a produce a calmer behavior.
Thinking takes a lot of energy. Dogs involved in a training program, expend tremendous mental energy focusing on the tasks presented to them. If your dog starts with minimal nutrition, they become lethargic, edgy or hyper active when asked to perform the simplest of tasks. They cannot focus and loss concentration after a short period of time or become confused. If the dog is continually asked to do something they cannot comprehend, confusion can lead to an aggressive form of acting out.
In training dogs, the first thing I look at is the dog’s diet. I work from the inside out. Training becomes ineffective if the underlying causes for the behaviors are not changed.
Hyper, unfocused and out of control dogs often are eating foods with high levels of cereal foods such as wheat, corn, and corn meal.
Studies being done find that certain forms a Amino Acids missing from diets limit the formation of essential neurotransmitter which play a key role the lessening of aggression, anxiety, and self control of impulse behaviors.
Aggressive dogs eat food containing higher levels of single source protein. Many of these proteins are incomplete chains of amino acids which do not offer proper building and repair of muscle fiber and cell tissue or the formation of essential neurotransmitter.
Shy and stressed dogs do not digest their foods well at all and often suffer from intestinal complications such as diarrhea. Their coats are often very dry and shed heavily.
One way to test the foods you are feeding is to let the kibble just soak in water for about 2 hours, similar to sitting in the digestive tract. If it swells in size and becomes mushy, it is primarily cereal.
Are you dog’s stools often soft and loose or is the dog gassy? Then, they are not digesting the food properly.
By looking at their food, you will do more to help balance their behavior, as well as, contribute to their health and longevity.
You can feed you dog or fill your dog. Incomplete diets, high is filler only satisfy the dogs hunger but leave them nutritionally starved. When you feed your dog, you are meeting their nutritional needs, feeding their cells as well as satisfying their hunger.
Life Abundance offers the best combination of food for all dogs whether new puppies or senior adults.
The proteins are a complete chain of Amino Acids and digest easily for full utilization of nutrients.
The carbohydrates are complex and do not turn into simple sugars producing energy swings of highs and low behaviors. The food if left in water becomes soft, as it should, but doesn't swell in size.
The Probotics in the food balance and digest more easily, which is not only perfect for the nervous or shy dogs, but ensures all dogs are receiving the nutrition they need from food.
For information on food search at http://petvitamins.org
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