Omega-3 Improves Your Pet Health

In modern times pets, specially dogs and cats, are part of modern life for their company, the happiness they bring to their human friends. There are about 70 million dogs in the USA.

If you are one of these households, you need to also consider these facts:

• Cancer is the number ONE killer of dogs.
• One in three dogs will die from cancer.
• 50 percent of dogs over the age of 10 will succumb to cancer

Our beloved companions are suffering and dying young in increasing numbers. It’s obvious that something is wrong. It probably has something to do with the food we supply our pets.

Dry pet food manufacturers claim everything our animals need is inside that attractive bag with their beautiful pictures of meats, vegetables and fruits, labeled “natural!” This would be great, but it’s impossible to make such claims. No matter how good the ingredients are in a bag of dog or cat food, it is still a highly processed, grain-based food, lacking in live and whole nutrients. It is just a big bag of dead omega 6 fatty acids.

Manufactured dry dog foods do not provide the nutrients our dogs need and thus cause malnutrition; commercial foods also contain toxins that are over-burdening their bodies and compromising their immune systems so they fall prey to disease.

Pet Food With Fatty Acids.

Some dry foods have, according to their claim, omega 3 essential fatty acids for dogs. Flax, flax seeds and flax seed oil they all have Alpha-linolenic Acid, ALA. They can all be converted to EPA and DHA, the form of omega 3 the body uses.

When you buy milled flax seeds at the supermarket, you should be aware that the oxygen in the air reacts within minutes with the milled flax seeds making it useless, from the fatty acid health point of view. You would have to mille it and consume it on the spot in order to avoid oxidation.

Now, it can easily be understood why when you buy that dry pet food saying it is rich in omega 3 fatty acids , it is nonsense! Omega 3 fatty acids in the form of EPA or DHA only last for hours at room temperatures before they go rancid. So, maybe it contains some form of milled flax seeds that probably is death from the health stand point. On top of that, all cats and many dogs do not have the enzymes to convert ALA to EPA and DHA.

The only fatty acids that can withstand the heat process for the manufacture of dry pet food are Omega 6 fatty Acids, and we do not want to overload our dogs with more of those.

In conclusion, what you buy as dry pet food may be lacking omega 3 and is overdosing in omega 6, creating the conditions for degenerative diseases in your dog. The best solution to insure our pet’s health is to provide a high quality Omega 3 fish oil supplement, along with a premium fresh food such as sardines, raw egg and bovine meat.