K9 Safety Advice:
Buffet Of Hazards
Keeping Your Dog Safe
From Dangerous Foods
Keeping their dog safe from harm is at digest a decent
the top of every dog owner’s priority list. helping of raw
Common sense is the best tool for the meat in one go,
responsible dog owner to safeguard their nature didn’t give
pet against the perils of modern, domestic him the tools to
life - but sometimes we need a little handle other,
expert advice to cover all bases. Food is seemingly innocuous
one particular area where that little bit of foods.
extra information is invaluable. Many dog
owners do not realise that certain things, Melanie Monteiro is the author of
things which are perfectly safe for human the Safe Dog Handbook and
consumption, are actually poisonous or knows a thing or two about
dangerous for dogs to consume. hazards around the
kitchen. In her latest
The tricky thing is, we as dog owners tend to video for K9 Magazine,
assume a lot of the time that if something is Melanie and her
healthy for us, it should defi nitely be healthy extremely well behaved
for our dog - after all, our dogs seem to do canine companion give
just fi ne eating uncooked meat and other us the lowdown on what foods
unappetising offerings that would turn our should remain OFF the canine menu
stomach, so why wouldn’t they be able to - you may be surprised by what you
handle most things found in the cupboards see. Melanie’s book, the Safe Dog
and fridges of the modern home? Handbook is available to buy now
from www.amazon.com
The reason is evolution. Yes, that word again
- it seems to be the answer to many of the
questions we fi nd ourselves pondering when
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it comes to dogs. But evolution has equipped
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the canine with an ability to cope with foods
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that are valuable to its continued existence,
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regardless of fl avour. Meat, no matter how
fresh (or not, as the case may be) is high in
protein and provides energy to a dog in the
wild. Which is why Mother Nature gave the
dog a digestive system adept at producing
enough enzymes to easily deal with this kind
of material. So even if your dog can easily
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