Nutritional Facts For Dogs from SHEVEGA
We at SHEVEGA are passionate about ensuring our pets have elite nutrition and preventing common health problems that often lead to more serious diseases requiring veterinary attention, and resulting in high stress and costs. Feed your pets with confidence!
SHEVEGA PROVIDES ADVICE on adding Healing Herbs to support Wellness & Longevity for your Adult dog!
Can dogs be fed a human diet?
Dogs can be fed with fresh Homemade food for humans. When owners prefer to cook for their dogs, it is better to get professionally formulated recipes or adapt their owners’ meals to their dog’s requirements. It is a high risk for your dog’s health if you prepare their Home-made food according to your or other owners’ well-intentioned recipes, which are in almost every case under or over-supplemented. Research- (Donoghue and Kronfeld, 1994) In many instances some ingredients are toxic.
Can I give my dog my takeaway food?
Dogs can be very sensitive to processed food for humans. As a senior and in my veterinary practice, many dogs fed inappropriate food for humans, end up in emergency rooms. SHEVEGA’s advice is not to feed any of your takeaway food to your pets.
Can I feed my dog raw, why would I need to supplement his food?
Some nutrients like Manganese, vitamin E, antioxidants etc, can be low in raw food. The preparation of raw meaty patties can decrease the level of Taurine. Immunocompromised or dogs with low immunity or over-reactive immunity will develop diseases like chronic ear infection and systemic disease caused by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a zoonotic disease that can be transferred to immune-compromised, older people and very young children.
Please keep in mind that raw is not recommended for pets with cancer and in immuno-compromised household. Research- (Joffe and Schlesinger).
I supplements is a form of cruelty and can kill a dog. Dogs are omnivores and requires specialised care if on a plant-based diet. SHEVEGA Supplements have been specially formulated to complete and balance the plant-based diets.
Should people feed their dogs with a plant-based diet?
For SHEVEGA, every dog deserves full care and attention. We are experienced to give advice for any diet, incl plant based. Did you know that top brand food companies produce dog food without animal proteins? Such food is used for dogs with chronic allergies. The specialised vet prescribed commercial top brand diets without animal proteins are made specifically for cats with thyroid problems. These top brand companies normally produce meat-based food. As a senior vet I have never heard of a pet owner complain that this is a plant-based diet and their pets never refused eating these plant protein-based diets.
Why would I add SHEVEGA Supplements to complete commercial food?
Many essential nutrients are lost from the high temperature during processing, during transport to other countries, during the long shelf life and if not properly stored during the usage. Even freeze-dried food is at the end of the production heated to high temperature to destroy potential pathogenic bacteria and toxic fungus present in different starting ingredients.
Ref: Research: ‘Stability of essential nutrients in pet food manufacturing and storage” Alaina Mooney, B.S. Kansas State University, 2010., Thesis, Master of Science.
Why would I choose SHEVEGA Supplements, are they better than other supplements that are cheaper, - why?
Our SHEVEGA supplements are complete and balanced, ALL IN ONE, amino acids-vitamins-minerals complex supplements specifically designed to supplement different adult dog diets, precisely as it is recommended by SHEVEGA.
Many other supplements are not complete. SHEVEGA supplements are formulated for adult dogs and consist of 24 nutrients, vitamins, minerals etc. Check the label on the supplement that you would like to compare. Read how many ingredients, not including herbs, flavours are presented in the supplements. Notice how many of different vitamins, minerals and amino acids are in the supplements.
If the supplement you are checking have similar list of ingredients, read the amounts recommended for the daily dose. Compare to SHEVEGA supplements. You might be surprised that some supplements can have 10 or more times lower quantities of ingredients than SHEVEGA or the other good quality ALL IN ONE COMPLETE supplement.
Now check if there is the recommended dose for the specific diet type, for example the dose of the supplements recommended for what kind of home-made food or another food type? If your dog is on raw diet or dry commercial food or for example keto diet, you are getting the same supplements and the same dose for the different diet types. That is not a good sign.
Has the supplement manufacturer provided a diet plan that the supplement would be compatible. Or in most of the cheaper supplements, the amounts of the ingredients are so small that by giving them to your dog daily diet your dog is on, you cannot make a mistake, neither will your dog benefit because the daily dose of ingredients are minimal and does not have any effect on your dog’s wellbeing.
SHEVEGA is helping dog owners, carers to check the current diet and supplements so you have proof that you are not spending your money for nothing.
Is a plant-based diet harmful to dogs?
Feeding Plant-based diets, without adding the complete and balanced supplements is a form of cruelty and can kill a dog. Dogs are omnivores and requires specialised care if on a plant-based diet. SHEVEGA Supplements have been specially formulated to complete and balance the plant-based diets.
Should people feed their dogs with a plant-based diet?
For SHEVEGA, every dog deserves full care and attention. We are experienced to give advice for any diet, incl plant based. Did you know that top brand food companies produce dog food without animal proteins? Such food is used for dogs with chronic allergies. The specialised vet prescribed commercial top brand diets without animal proteins are made specifically for cats with thyroid problems. These top brand companies normally produce meat-based food. As a senior vet I have never heard of a pet owner complain that this is a plant-based diet and their pets never refused eating these plant protein-based diets.
Why would I add SHEVEGA Supplements to complete commercial food?
Many essential nutrients are lost from the high temperature during processing, during transport to other countries, during the long shelf life and if not properly stored during the usage. Even freeze-dried food is at the end of the production heated to high temperature to destroy potential pathogenic bacteria and toxic fungus present in different starting ingredients.
Ref: Research: ‘Stability of essential nutrients in pet food manufacturing and storage” Alaina Mooney, B.S. Kansas State University, 2010., Thesis, Master of Science.
Did you know- high temperatures during production & a long shelf life can cause loss of nutrients and a decrease of the utilisation (availability to be used in intestines) of over 60% of nutrients in pet’s canned/dry (kibble) food.
Is it easy to use SHEVEGA Supplements?
Our SHEVEGA Supplements are in powered form. Use a kitchen teaspoon. One kitchen teaspoon is equal to 6 g.
How do I know SHEVEGA supplements are working?
Please see our testimonials. People notice visible improvement after constant use of our SHEVEGA supplements for 6 months and many notice improvements much before 6 months of use, often after 7-14 days.
Can SHEVEGA Supplements be used for Cats, Kittens & Puppies?
Our SHEVEGA supplements can be used ONLY for adult dogs. They cannot be used for pregnant and lactating mama dogs.
What does Custom-made or tailor made diet plans mean?
Our SHEVEGA Custom-made diets are formulated by our senior practicing vet and experienced vet nutritionists. Creating Custom diet plans require detailed analysis by our vet nutritionist and includes reviewing the information that you provide in our SHEVEGA client forms, that includes medical history and anything else that you think is important to inform us of. For dogs with health issues we will require information from your vet with the details of your pet’s medical history and test results. We provide specific SHEVEGA formulated diet plans based on the type of diet, health condition, allergies to certain food etc.
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