We all love our pets, whether it’s a dog, cat, or whatever our pet is, we love it.
My pet, or should I put it that way, my baby is a dog. He is a weenie dog but they call him by another name. I can’t spell it, but I’ll try. He says something like “Dash Hound” and I’m not sure if it’s spelled correctly, but if not, I gave it a try.
Whatever our pet requires a balanced nutritional diet to keep it healthy and free of diseases.
I know that my dog, by the way his name is Rowdy, needs a nutritious diet to stay healthy and to be able to fight the different canine diseases that exist.
He used to give Rowdy cans of dog food. He was thinking that he was giving him the best nutritious and balanced diet that he could give him, but I noticed that he started to act like he was never full. He kept eating and eating more, gaining a lot of weight.
When we would go out, he would run continuously, so I wondered why he was gaining so much weight even though he was eating a lot of dog food. She was running here and there and everywhere. He is a very active dog.
Then one day I noticed that something was eating my pumpkin plants. I blamed the various animals that appeared during the night for eating my pumpkin plants, but then I realized it was my dog, Rowdy. It was eating my pumpkin plants.
I have always heard that if a dog eats grass it is missing something in its diet but I have never heard of a dog eating pumpkin plants. So I got to thinking that Rowdy must be missing something in his diet to be able to eat my pumpkin plants. He wasn’t bothering any of my other plants, just my squash plants.
I did a search for zucchini, summer squash. I also did a search on what vitamins and minerals dogs need. I found out that most of the vitamins and minerals in the pumpkin were what he needed and he apparently wasn’t getting them in the store bought food he was feeding him.
The vitamins and minerals in summer squash are: potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, sodium, iron, manganese, selenium, zinc, and copper. Summer squash also contains small amounts of other minerals.
These are the vitamins that summer squash contains, plus a few other vitamins in small amounts: vitamin C, niacin, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, pantothenic acid, folic acid, vitamin A, vitamin K, and vitamin E.
Here is a list of some of the vitamins and minerals that your dog should have in his diet: Vitamins A, D, E, B complex, Biotin, Calcium, Choline, Iron, Copper, Folic Acid, Iodine, Magnesium, Niacin, Manganese , Pantothenic Acid, Phosphorus, Potassium, Selenium, Sodium Chloride and Zinc.
Of course, this is not all, but you should certainly include them in your dog’s food along with fresh meat, vegetables and grains. This is a healthy natural diet that is better than anything you can buy at the store.
When I saw the similarities between the vitamins and minerals in summer squash and what a healthy diet for a dog consists of, I decided to make my own dog food.
Since I feed Rowdy a nutritious and healthy home-cooked diet, I know he is getting everything he needs and nothing that is unhealthy or could harm him.
Oh, by the way, Rowdy doesn’t eat my summer squash plants anymore. He gets everything he needs in his diet from homemade dog food.