A complicated story but two issues relate to each other, I believe.
Listen, 3-year-old spayed Alaskan Malamute, in excellent health.
I made two changes in the last ten days. I started giving Listen the Teef for dogs mouth biome supplement in her water bowl (which I now wash every day) and I stopped feeding her the small portion, ~3/4c. - of my food which included added salt, spices, a bit of onion and garlic, thereby reducing the carb intake except for baked winter squash and a bit of rice, whole oats and quinoa. She eats raw meats and organs, raw ocean and freshwater fish, vegetable sludge (no sweet or white potato) - mostly leafy greens, green beans, carrots, red pepper, cauliflower, broccoli, egg, sometimes tofu - supplemented with high-potency Omega 3 (lots of DHA) fish oil, ground eggshell, ground flax and chia seed.
Morning meal is ground or chunk meat/organs or fish or turkey wings (bone). Evening is the veg sludge with some more small amounts of organ or fish.
Because I am adding the Teef to her water bowl, I am paying more attention to how much she is drinking and that she consumes all the Teef water. The quantity of water/day is about 2 litres, a good amount for her (about 80 lbs), but what I do to make sure she is consuming the Teef water is to add it to her evening meal, which makes it soup rather than sludge
, and add what might be left in her bowl the next morning to her morning meal. Is this too nerdy? And may the combo of not having added sodium (except for what is in the Te.ef product) be putting her sodium/blood/cellular health out of whack?
She is thrilled with all that I give her. She laps up every last bit of the soup but am I encouraging overhydration?
Thank you if you have made it through to the end of this post...
Listen, 3-year-old spayed Alaskan Malamute, in excellent health.
I made two changes in the last ten days. I started giving Listen the Teef for dogs mouth biome supplement in her water bowl (which I now wash every day) and I stopped feeding her the small portion, ~3/4c. - of my food which included added salt, spices, a bit of onion and garlic, thereby reducing the carb intake except for baked winter squash and a bit of rice, whole oats and quinoa. She eats raw meats and organs, raw ocean and freshwater fish, vegetable sludge (no sweet or white potato) - mostly leafy greens, green beans, carrots, red pepper, cauliflower, broccoli, egg, sometimes tofu - supplemented with high-potency Omega 3 (lots of DHA) fish oil, ground eggshell, ground flax and chia seed.
Morning meal is ground or chunk meat/organs or fish or turkey wings (bone). Evening is the veg sludge with some more small amounts of organ or fish.
Because I am adding the Teef to her water bowl, I am paying more attention to how much she is drinking and that she consumes all the Teef water. The quantity of water/day is about 2 litres, a good amount for her (about 80 lbs), but what I do to make sure she is consuming the Teef water is to add it to her evening meal, which makes it soup rather than sludge
, and add what might be left in her bowl the next morning to her morning meal. Is this too nerdy? And may the combo of not having added sodium (except for what is in the Te.ef product) be putting her sodium/blood/cellular health out of whack?She is thrilled with all that I give her. She laps up every last bit of the soup but am I encouraging overhydration?
Thank you if you have made it through to the end of this post...
