Purina ProPlan Selects

ORIGINAL: sooner

akane... How is Cocoa doing? Did he get sick anymore?

 
Hi [] Thanks for asking!  Yesterday, I gave him a little bit of his favorite wet food, it's Purina ProPlan chicken and rice.  I usually give him a little bit of that with his crushed vitamins because he gobbles it all up.  So, I thought that giving him something he didn't really have to chew might digest faster.  Not sure if that's true or not but that was my thought process. []
 
He hasn't thrown up since then, his stools were a little soft this morning but that might be because I gave him only wet food.  Today I mixed a little but if his ProPlan Selects kibble (just a little) with his wet food and gave him that.  Let's see if he holds that down. [] The only thing I noticed is that the puppy ProPlan Selects kibble is larger than the regular puppy ProPlan kibble.  Maybe he just had trouble chewing the bigger pieces?
 
I'm just not crazy about the ingredients in the ProPlan wet food, though. [] But, I like it that he'll eat his vitamins in it without a fuss. [sm=wink2.gif]
 
With love, cuddles and doggy treats,
Jessi & Cocoa

Interesting page. He didn't reference where he got the info about grains and arthritis. But certainly an anecdotal success story in feeding raw.
 

Back in the early 80's, one of those half-baked college studies that people take as law came out and said that peanut butter was causing cancer in rats. Now, in a Science News I read from the same era, it pointed out that rats, in proportion to humans are many times more likely to develope cancer, period. And, they would overdose more than to what a human would be subjected. Then they said coffee was bad. Now, it's good. Red meat is bad. Now, it's okay if it's lean. Carbohydrates were bad and people quit eating bread. Now, carbohydrates are good. It's a bunch of hungry post-graduates looking for more funding by putting out preliminary studies, rather than work in the private sector, where results are expected.

I heard of a local woman who smoked all of her adult life until the age of 119, when she quit the habit. She passed on at 123.

I saw a 20 year old kid on the Oprah Winfrey show who was dying of lung cancer and had literally never been around a cigarette in his life. None if his friends or family ever smoked.

I'm not condoning smoking. If I eat right, exercise, rest, don't smoke or drink, and reduce stress then sometime, between 70 and 100, I will die. That's what separates me from a lot of other boomers. The rest think that they can live forever if the eat the right thing avoid the wrong thing, and those things change every 6 month with a new preliminary study. Talk about upping your stress.

Tonight, I'm going to have hot dogs and chips and dip.

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ORIGINAL: ron2

Back in the early 80's, one of those half-baked college studies that people take as law came out and said that peanut butter was causing cancer in rats. Now, in a Science News I read from the same era, it pointed out that rats, in proportion to humans are many times more likely to develope cancer, period.

I had a pet rat that died of cancer.  Apparently cancer is what most rats die of.  Funny that they do all the cancer research on animals that are likely to die of it anyways.  Or is it because lab rats have been around cancer causing agents for 50 years or so that it has become a genetic predisposition for rats to die of cancer?  Just a thought, completely off topic.

ORIGINAL: akane

Hi [] Thanks for asking! Yesterday, I gave him a little bit of his favorite wet food, it's Purina ProPlan chicken and rice. I usually give him a little bit of that with his crushed vitamins because he gobbles it all up. So, I thought that giving him something he didn't really have to chew might digest faster. Not sure if that's true or not but that was my thought process. []

He hasn't thrown up since then, his stools were a little soft this morning but that might be because I gave him only wet food. Today I mixed a little but if his ProPlan Selects kibble (just a little) with his wet food and gave him that. Let's see if he holds that down. [] The only thing I noticed is that the puppy ProPlan Selects kibble is larger than the regular puppy ProPlan kibble. Maybe he just had trouble chewing the bigger pieces?

I'm just not crazy about the ingredients in the ProPlan wet food, though. [] But, I like it that he'll eat his vitamins in it without a fuss. [sm=wink2.gif]

With love, cuddles and doggy treats,
Jessi & Cocoa

Glad to hear he hasn't been sick again, hope things stay well [] Maybe he just gulped a few too many whole pieces before.

Sandra is Halloween your favorite holiday?  Sounds like you have everything all decked out and that is very cool.
 
On the cancer thing...Don't we all have cancer/strange  cells?  If so it would be safe to assume that animals do to.  A great immune system keeps those cells at bay. 
Heck anything could cause cancer..all we can do is try to take the best care of ourselves and animals.  Eating foods that make us or our animals sick isn't helping them or us.
I don't think its bad to feed whatever works it beats having a dog getting ill from the food.  I am glad there are so many choices of food now.

It's a bunch of hungry post-graduates looking for more funding by putting out preliminary studies, rather than work in the private sector, where results are expected.

Hey, hey hey!  One of my best friends is one of those hungry post-grads!  I'm just kidding - I mean, I really do have a post grad friend who lives off ramen but I actually agree with you on that point.

The other  thing is that many results are filtered through the media which does not operate under academic discipline.  This is the problem with most "scientific results" as mentioned here.  I have a ton of friends in the scientific disciplines and one of the things I admire most about them is their ability to differentiate between true fact and the flow of observational research. 

Giggle accepted and thank you for the clarification. I agree with you.
 

On the cancer thing...Don't we all have cancer/strange cells?

Yes,i believe we do.Which is why it is all the more important to look after ours and our pets bodies,and fuel them with healthful foods rather than what is in most of the processed foods available today .So many things can 'trigger' off those cancer cells,and by feeding foods far removed from a species appropriate diet is dicing with our health,if you ask me. There are so many great foods out there,i just do not see the need to feed anything 'less'.

A little off topic,but my son was reading over my shoulder yesterday when i was writing the post about "taking the chance",and he asked me "if someone were to offer me a million dollars and all i had to do was feed my dogs kibbles n bits or something similar,would i do it"? I thought about it for a second and said with all honestly "NO".Hell,i would most probably say i fed it,and that would be hard enough,but i just couldnt do it,not for all the money in the world! All that money wouldnt help my dogs if they got some ghastly disease brought on by poor nutrition [&:]

This is how important nutrition is to me,which is why i find it so hard to understand that people willingly feed stuff like that,when i wouldnt do it if they paid me [&o]

Sandra is Halloween your favorite holiday? Sounds like you have everything all decked out and that is very cool.

 
No, Christmas is.  But I decorate for EVERY holiday--Valentine, St. Paddy's, Easter, July 4, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I have lighted villages for Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, matching shower curtains, toilet seat covers, bath mats and even some other bathroom accessories for every one of the holidays, and I do up every room, tho not as much for St. Paddy's and July 4th is there isn't that much stuff availabe.  I have dozens of those big clear plastic totes in the garage with decorations in them, plus one closet full and a lot in the other cloests.