The Great Dane diet for the most part is usually like most other dog diets. A couple of scoops of dried up ole chow and some water to wash it down, its no wonder that dogs go digging through trash cans for morsels of human food. We eat pretty good stuff on a bad day compared to our poor animals. Now consider for a moment that dogs are carnivores and the first couple of ingredients of dog food are usually some type of grain, beet pulp and corn or some other delicious filler. Not quite as meaty as the picture on the front of the dog food makes you believe.
A much better alternative that can be used all of the time or just part time is the BARF diet, sounds delicious but it really stands for bones and raw food, or biologically appropriate raw food. Sounds better already. I am sure that you are interested in giving your Dane the best nutrition possible and I am also sure that you are interested in reducing the poop and noxious Dane farts. This diet has been shown to have success in all of these areas.
It can be as simple as you like. Toss the Dane a raw steak or get fancy and puree some veggies and fruit, mix in a couple of raw eggs, and drizzle it all over some delicious organ meat. I can already imagine my Danes drooling at the thought of that.
Good ingredients include, basically any kind of meat, eggs, fish, fish oil, yogurt, pureed fruit and veggies, and raw bones. The raw bones can be easily digested and will clean the teeth and gums nicely. The fruit and veggies need to be pureed because this will get them closer to the state that they would normally be consumed in. Dogs will normally only consume fruit and veggies when it is partially digested and in the stomach of a kill. Their digestive track is too short to properly digest the amount of cellulose and fiber in fruit and veggies.
You can feed your Dane the BARF diet all the time or like many other folks you have a life too and this type of feeding takes some extra work. Do it as much as possible and your Dane will be better for it. If you need to spend one night a week pre preparing food and freezing it that is an excellent option, just thaw it out in the microwave and serve.
You will see immediate improvements in your Great Danes coat and skin aliments will most likely dissipate if not go away all together. The high protein diet will most likely lead to some lean muscle gain and should stabilize energy. Traditional dog food causes energy spikes because the grain is converted to glucose and burned as sugar, having the same effect as a soft drink on a 6 year old.
As far as portion size, watch the waist line and adjust appropriately, it is hard to go wrong here, it is hard to make a young great Dane fat and their fast metabolisms take weight off quickly if you reduce feeding.
Give it a shot your great Dane will love you for it and be even more likely to get in your lap and the dog breath will only improve.
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