Re: Re: [pyrnet] Re: Pano and diet

["Janice Swenson" <janices@austin.rr.com>]

On 4 Nov 2004 at 9:01, Linda Weisser wrote:
> future.  Current vaccines are proven good for 3 years although in any
> place with a high rabies incidence (TX for example) dogs are
> vaccinated yearly.

Yes, Texas went to 3 yrs in 2003.  And some of the other standard vaccinations have 
changed in Texas.  

Large Breed Dog Food - There is not that much difference from your standard puppy 
food and large breed dog food<vbg>.  Let's call it marketing if you want.  There's only 
one large breed dog food that has kept the protein low and that is Eagle Pack's.  It's 
the same as the Eagle Natural which is what I feed my newf pup.  Protein, the deal 
with protein, is once the body intakes more than is required it converts protein to 
energy.  Reading the studies on great danes protein in the large breed puppy foods 
still seems to be too high to me in some brands.  From some stuff I've read putting 
under 1 calcium can also cause problems.  A Purina research report puts the levels 
at 1 to 1.5 for puppies which also seems to come from some of the original great 
dane studies.  Purina went low at 1 and Eagle went higher at 1.5.  Very recently, 
there's been a few cases in newfs where the pups developed carpal hyperextension 
in the fronts on the large breed dog foods.  Vets immediately took them off the large 
breed and put them on adult food and the condition is correcting.  They were told 
don't feed large breed puppy food to giant breed puppies.  

 
Janice, janices@austin.rr.com
Brooke & Lana (newfs), Sonny (pyr)  
http://home.austin.rr.com/janices
Hutto, TX