Classic commercial dog food is poisonous. It’s entirely lacking any herbal nutritional value for one’s furry friend. Most it’s the leftovers from other human processing food plants. This means that it’s dog leftovers. It’s not great for your family pet, that’s for sure. If you want your canine to live a lengthy, good lifespan, then …
There are important nutritional differences between the prey animals that ancestors of our dogs and cats would have eaten in the wild and the domesticated food animals used in a modern raw food diet. Domesticated food animals have less protein, more fat (often with an unhealthy balance), and fewer minerals and antioxidants.
My fifteen-year old shepherd/rottweiler mix has begun exhibiting telltale signs of old age. The most significant symptom has been a loss of appetite that requires me to coax her a bit to get her to eat anything, which is unusual considering that she was a very good eater throughout the 10 years that I have had her. This has made it harder to maintain her normal routine as far as taking her medications go, which is set aside from the nutritional aspect of her daily life.