Nutrition and Your Dog's Behavior by Jeanne Perciaccanto

Nutrition and Your Dog’s Behavior

Proper nutrition is the fundamental basis for every aspect

of your dog’s life.

It affects their health and longevity by offering an

essential balance of proteins, fats, complex carbohydrates

and the trace nutrients and minerals their bodies need for

growth, repair and maintains of sound immune system.

Nutrition is a complex and integral part of your dog’s

ability to think clearly, lower stress levels and a produce

a calmer behavior.

Thinking takes a lot of energy. Dogs involved in a training

program, expend tremendous mental energy focusing on the

tasks presented to them. If your dog starts with minimal

nutrition, they become lethargic, edgy or hyper active when

asked to perform the simplest of tasks. They cannot focus

and loss concentration after a short period of time or

become confused. If the dog is continually asked to do

something they cannot comprehend, confusion can lead to an

aggressive form of acting out.

In training dogs, the first thing I look at is the dog’s

diet. I work from the inside out. Training becomes

ineffective if the underlying causes for the behaviors are

not changed.

Hyper, unfocused and out of control dogs often are eating

foods with high levels of cereal foods such as wheat, corn,

and corn meal.

Aggressive dogs eat food containing higher levels of

incomplete protein which do not digest well.

Shy and stressed dogs do not digest their foods well at all

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BIO:

Jeanne Perciaccanto has been a professional dog trainer for
twenty years, at http://www.ultimatedogtraining.com, with
an education degree in Health. She has combined both
disciplines and researches diet and nutrition as it pertains
to canine behavior.
To search sites for food information go to
http://www.healthydogfood.net.

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