Add Juicing Pulp to Your German Shepherd Dog Diet

Add Juicing Pulp to Your German Shepherd Dog Diet

by | Adult dog, Adult Dogs, carnivore, diet, feeding, food, health, herbivore, juice, juicing, nutrients, omnivore, predator, pulp, Puppies, puppy, vitamin

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Exploring the vast prairie of the Washita National Wildlife Refuge

Hi Everyone,

A lot of people are paying more attention today to their health by educating themselves on a healthy diet.  They are juicing to increase their nutrient intake.  Juicing is becoming more popular than ever before as people learn more about nutritional needs and how to meet those needs in a world of processed foods.  Besides being delicious, juicing fresh vegetables and fruit it is particularly healthy.  I personally have been juicing breakfast and lunch somewhat inconsistently for the last two years.  I get away from juicing because I get busy and do not have the time to purchase the vegetables and fruits and to prepare them.  It does take a lot of time out of your daily schedule to juice on a regular basis.  However, I keep coming back to because I feel and look much better when I juice.   I lose weight, have more energy, and my complexion improves, and I have a definite healthy glow when I juice on a regular basis.  In addition, it only takes a couple of days to start to feel and see the positive effect of juicing.

Healthy Puppy Befitting From Juicing Pulp in His Diet

Healthy Puppy Befitting From Juicing Pulp in His Diet

Today, I encourage you to start juicing if you do not and if you do juice do the same for your German Shepherd Dog by including the pulp left over from juicing in your German Shepherd Dog’s diet.  The pulp leftover from juicing is similar to the predigested stomach contents of herbivores.

Carnivores and certain omnivores such as lions, dogs, wolves, coyotes, and foxes in nature, after capturing their prey will always first consume stomachs and intestines, which contain predigested vegetation. These predigested contents provide the meat eaters with much-needed nutrients such as complex amino acids, minerals, enzymes, and chlorophyll necessary for maintenance, health, and longevity. These nutrients cannot be found in sufficient levels or in a readily digestible form in most all dry-foods. In addition, many of these basic nutrients are cooked out of the dry-food during processing.

Healthy and Happy Heidelberg German Shepherd Dog, Puppies

Healthy and Happy Heidelberg German Shepherd Dog, Puppies

Prepare the pulp by bringing it to a boil.  By denaturing the proteins, you will further make it more like predigested stomach contents of herbivores. You can also add eggs and fresh meat and cook these items with the pulp, thus making a gruel that you can pour out over your German Shepherd Dog’s dry-food.

Food items that are exceptionally healthy for your German Shepherd Dog include kale, carrots, apples, oranges, grapefruit, berries of all types, grapes only in very small quantities (grapes can be harmful to your dog in large quantities), cranberries, spinach, cucumbers, watermelon, tomatoes, etc.  You will have to experiment with ratios both for you and your dog for taste.  Too much pulp and your German Shepherd Dog may not eat it. 

Grand Champion Heidelberg's Kodi Enjoys Juice Pulp

Grand Champion Heidelberg’s Kodi Enjoys Juice Pulp

 Try juicing for yourself and your German Shepherd Dog.  I guarantee that you will like the results.  As always before dramatically changing your diet or your dog’s diet consult your physician and your veterinarian.

Ask me a Question and I will provide my opinion. Also, please see our web page: KeystoneGermanShepherds

Sincerely,

KeystoneGermanShepherds

Why Do We Tape Ears

Why Do We Tape Ears

by | Breeders, health, Puppies, puppy, quality

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Exploring the vast Prairie at Washita National Wildlife Refuge

Why this subject, because we have been slammed on the blogs for having a “How to tape ears” section on our web page.  In addition, having erect ears is an important part of the overall health of shepherds.  Comments posted on blogs concerning the ear taping page included:  “Keystone must have really bad ears”, “all their dogs ears have to be taped”, etc.  These are all mindless comments.

The reason this page will remain on my web page is because I believe, my method is the absolute best for assisting shepherd ears to stand correctly.  We sell puppies worldwide and the web page is beneficial for customers if they are unable to come out to our kennel for my assistance in taping their puppy’s ears.

I could have password protected this page, but I believe in helping people even if that means assisting my competitors.  More than that, I understand the health risk to shepherds if their ears do not stand erect.  Floppy ears could result in chronic ear infections, as well as, acute-severe ear infections that can enter the brain, thus resulting brain damage and death.

It is somewhat rare for us to have to tape ears.  We go months sometimes almost a year before having to tape ears.  Anecdotally, I cannot link any specific lineage to it, but have seen more of an occurrence with large males. Presumably because their ears are larger with more mass and, therefore, more likely to have trouble standing.

All breeders, I can comfortably say have at least the occasional problem with ears standing. So it remains a minor problem in the German Shepherd community, minor because it can always be corrected if approached before 20 weeks of age.  If the ears are not standing by 8 months then they will likely never stand.  Therefore, new puppy owners are responsible with working with their breeder in making sure their puppy’s ear stand.  If you seek assistance from your veterinarian, query them to make sure they know what they are doing.  We have had vets permanently ruin shepherd ears by taping them up like Doberman Pinscher ears after surgery.  Also, we have had vets recommend massaging the ears on a daily basis, which is the absolute worse thing you could do because the cartilage has to stiffen for the ears to stand.  Massaging the ears would break down the cartilage ensuring that they would never stand.  Be careful about where you seek help.

These first two blogs were my attempt to address some unfair criticism of Keystone.  The next blogs will be more instructive and hopefully of more interest.  I must go now to teach our Saturday morning Canine Good Citizen Class.

Please post your questions and I promise, I will provide my opinion.

Sincerely,

 

KeystoneGermanShepherds