We’ve been breeding Great Danes for 15 years and in the beginning we fed them high quality croquettes as a lot of breeders do, but we weren’t really satisfied with the result.
You should realises that a Great Dane is a dog that grows very fast and needs a lot of attention as far as housing, education and nutrition is concerned.
After years of working with vets who advised us different types of expensive and non-effective nutritional food supplements to facilitate the growth problems of our dogs, we asked several big breeders for advice and they showed us the advantages of natural food, as opposed to industrial food, and so we decided to start feeding our dogs chicken carcasses.
We’ve had faith in Degomeats (Frankie)quality and service for nine years now.
We are very happy with this nutrition and throughout the years, we’ve noticed a steady amelioration in the well beging of our dogs, from generation to generation. The puppies grow up steadily, in a steady pace and they maintain a certain muscle mass. They are more homogeneous, they don’t grow out of proportion.
The development of the muscles which is necessary for the protection of the joints was guaranteed, which led to the fact that the fragility of the skeleton when the dog grew up too quickly was considerably diminished, so there were a lot less growing problems.
The Great Dane is often subject to stomach torsion, and also for this problem Degomeat has proven to be very useful.
After an abdominal ultrasound scan of our dogs we were able to see that their stomachs were smaller and more muscular and the stomach walls were thicker, as opposed to when we fed our dogs croquettes. De stomach functions better, contracts, and is less subject to expansion or torsion.
Just pulverise a croquette and look at its proportion, you will soon realise that these croquettes will inflate the stomach. They digest well enough but the stomach will only function a little and is more subject to expansion or torsion.
We haven’t had any more stomach torsions since we started feeding our dogs chicken carcasses.
The stomach transit is much better, the faeces are more solid and more compact, the anal glands function better because they help to secrete the bones of the carcasses.
We often have discussions with vets that advise dry food; one only has to look in their waiting rooms to see the rich variety of big brands of dog nutrition. They make a considerable profit.
We regret this and we would like to prove to them through food analysis and the health of our dogs that natural food is ideal for our dogs, even if the large industries recommend other products.
We will evidently keep feeding our dogs natural food because of all the reasons above. We will never go back to croquettes!
