We all love our pets, whether it’s a dog, a 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’ve tried.
Whatever our pet, it requires a balanced nutritional diet to keep it healthy and disease-free.
I know that my dog, by the way his name is Rowdy, needs a nutritious diet to stay healthy and to fight the different canine diseases that exist.
He used to give Rowdy cans of dog food. I was thinking that he was giving her the best balanced nutritious diet he could give her, but I noticed that he started acting like he was never full. He kept eating and eating more, gaining a lot of weight.
When we were out he was running non-stop so I was wondering why he was gaining so much weight even though he was eating a lot of dog food. She ran here and there and everywhere. He is a very active dog.
Then one day I noticed something was eating my pumpkin plants. I blamed the different animals that showed up during the night for eating my pumpkin plants, but then I realized it was my dog, Rowdy. He was eating my pumpkin plants.
I have always heard that if a dog eats grass there is something missing in his 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 pumpkin plants.
I did a search for zucchini, summer squash. I also did a search on the vitamins and minerals that dogs need. I found that most of the vitamins and minerals in the squash were what he needed and he apparently wasn’t getting them in the store bought food he was giving him.
The vitamins and minerals in summer squash are: potassium, phosphorous, 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 cereals. This is a healthy natural diet that is better than anything you can buy at the store.
It was when I saw the similarities of the vitamins and minerals in summer squash and what a healthy diet for a dog is that I decided to make my own dog food.
Since I feed Rowdy a nutritious and healthy homemade diet, I know he is getting everything he needs and not getting anything 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.