Or, “why the dogs are about to eat better than we are”.

Last time I wrote, it was because my little friend Ron was having a few health problems, and part of my attempt to help her get better involved vast amounts of sweet potato. While she was on the sweet potato like a fat kid on a Smartie, she also started to eat her regular food again, so I took my saucepan and backed off.

Now? She’d better hang onto her little red collar, because there are big changes a-coming. Her progress has been really slow – she’s been getting slightly better, and she takes these crazy antioxidants every day, but
she’s still pretty skinny and not her usual perky self. So I decided to do some research, and discovered that some people feed their dogs all- natural diets to help their livers heal. In most cases, diet is the only
option for controlling liver disease.

It doesn’t seem like a big stretch to me. I mean, sure, it’s more effort, but can you imagine choking down three bowls of kibble every day for ten years? No wonder their little systems give out. It all seems so processed and wrong – and if processed stuff is wrong for US, why do we think it’s any better for them?

I put a call in to our vet, about whom I cannot say enough nice things, and she left me a message this morning that said “absolutely, let’s try it”. So we’ll see what happens when I talk to her tonight. I see a future full of broccoli, mashed potato, and milk thistle for my little brown friend. I just hope it works!

(And who knows? Maybe I’ll become a better cook in the process.)