Articles about American Pit Bull Terrier
Why Your Dog Needs to Fill its Stomach on an Irregular Basis
Most dog owners, who love their dogs, try to extend as much TLC to them as they can. However, when they assume that what is good for them is also good for the dog, they make some terrible mistakes…. Dog do not have monkey stomachs! Some anatomic facts to consider… A dog stomach is elastic, like an accordion. When empty, it folds to what almost appears to be an intestine. When it is filled, it can contain as much as 7-8% of the dog's body weight! (For a human weighing 120 pounds, this would correspond to eating 10 pounds in one meal - but a human stomach is a bag with almost no elasticity - it simply cannot do more than about 10% of this…) Further, the dog's stomach is full of small glands that produce digestive enzymes. Those glands start to work when they get in contact with food. This will happen for some of them immediately as the dog gets some food in the stomach, but, because of the folding nature of the stomach, most of those glands do not get to touch food unless the stomach is filled so that all the folds are stretched out! An amazing consequence of this is that the dog's digestion process is more efficient when it gets a large meal!...to continue reading this article please click on here...
