The magic of ABADY feeds is
being whispered among top breeders around the world. Many
who have enjoyed the unparalleled advantages of these unique
and exciting feeds are reluctant to share the secret.
Even though ABADY products come
with impressive credentials - the best protein sources in
the marketplace drawn entirely from animal sources; advanced
scientific expertise, an innovative synergistic design that
fosters nutrient uptake by the tissues; a revolutionary
structure and a resolute avoidance of sources of the plant
toxin saponins, soybean meal, beet pulp and other stool
hardeners such as sodium bentonite, sorghum (milo), alfalfa,
tomato pomace, oats, potatoes, peas, beans, yucca, garlic,
and artificial non-nutritive additives and preservatives. -
it is ABADY'S unrelenting quest for truth however that has
narrowed the performance gap between ABADY and its only real
competitor; Nature.
ABADY, a keen interpreter of
Nature, has observed that carnivores derive their nutrition
from raw flesh, organs and bones. It is the maintenance of
this high level of nutrition throughout their lifetimes that
insures their survival. This explains why lower levels of
nutrition as offered by most commercial diets (premium and
ordinary varieties) produce unsatisfactory results.
Because of the public's
unawareness of a standard of nutrition higher than that
represented by commercial feeding and the time lag between
feed ingestion and results produced, the problems caused by
commercial feeding are generally not attributed to these
diets. Nevertheless, the shortcomings of these diets should
be of paramount concern to canine fanciers.
In 1987 the ABADY Company
advanced a revolutionary hypothesis which identified
inadequate commercial nutrition as the cause of innumerable
canine disorders. ABADY explains that the weaknesses of the
dietary concepts that underwrite most commercial diets are
never more evident than at such times when the dog's needs
are at their greatest - during gestation, lactation, and
growth.
It is a scientific fact that
dogs regulate their feed intake to match their caloric
needs. Properly designed diets of adequate quality should
provide the quality nutrition required to accompany the
calories. When diets fail to provide the required
nutrition, faulty tissue systems will be built, and
inadequate levels of maintenance will result. This is
precisely what most commercial nutrition offers: too many
calories in relation to inadequate levels of nutrition.
The imbalances of commercial
diets are particularly evident when cautions against
unrestricted feeding during growth are sounded.
Unrestricted feeding is the only way that a dog can be
assured of receiving the number of calories it requires,
since its needs at such time are both accelerated and
variable. There is fear that if a dog should be allowed to
meet its caloric needs through commercial nutrition that it
would develop more weight than its tissues could carry, and
it would break down. It has not been scientifically
explained how the practice of restricting feed intake during
growth, in the face of accelerated nutrient demand, can be
justified.
Restricting feed intake during
growth is an attempt to decelerate the rate of growth in
anticipation of a corresponding reduction in the requirement
for tissue-building nutrients. Non-growing tissue requires
fewer tissue-building nutrients than growing tissue.
This approach does not take into
account that it is not the rate of growth that is
necessarily too fast, but that the nutrition that
accompanies the calories in the diets is unable to supply
the needed quantity and quality of tissue-building nutrients
at a rapid enough rate. Dogs grown in this manner still
break down, many retaining symptoms of unsoundness that
worsen as the dog gets older; serious consequences may
result.
ABADY EXPLAINS THE VULNERABILITY
OF TISSUES TO INADEQUATE NUTRITION DURING GROWTH.
Organs develop at different
rates, some develop in the prenatal period, others in the
post natal period. During the first stage of growth tissue
develops by increasing amounts of Deoxyribonucleic Acid
(DNA). If inadequate nutrition occurs during this period,
permanent damage will result, by reducing the number of
cells that make up the organ. Such damage could be
expressed by high puppy mortality or by musculo-skeletal
breakdown. The possibility of tissue malfunction later in
life due to the reduced cell content in vital organs, such
as thyroid, uterus, kidney, pancreas, or the immune system
itself, cannot be ignored; particularly since the feeding of
superior diets to dogs over extended periods by the ABADY
Company has not produced similar problems.
In the light of ABADY'S
hypothesis, the likelihood that structural problems like hip
dysplasia, osteo chondritis dessicans, and other
developmental abnormalities related to inadequate commercial
nutrition is increased. This is further re-enforced by
studies done on other animals. The quadricept muscles of
guinea pigs born to poorly nourished mothers, for instance,
were reduced in DNA content by 25 percent with corresponding
reduction in cell number. Inadequate nutrition in the post
natal rat was reported to result in proportionate decreases
in DNA in the gastronomies muscle. There exist many more
examples of conditions caused by inadequate nutrition that
had previously been considered to be of genetic origin.
It must then by asked in view of
ABADY'S hypothesis why a reduction in feed intake in the
face of accelerated nutritional demands appears to reduce
the likelihood of immediate collapse. The answer is
simple. Tissue that has already been damaged will only be
further damaged by continuing to feed inadequate rations.
At this point once the tissue is permanently damaged, and
cell number is reduced, what appears to be needed is a diet
that fosters protein retention and increased levels of
Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) production. In this way some
compensation may be achieved by increasing the size (RNA) of
the diminished number of cells. This is not a result that
is easily achieved with most commercial nutrition.
The answer is to switch to a
feed that is truly balanced and nutritious (the complete and
balanced statement that can be found on all bags of dog feed
is not to be confused with what ABADY is talking about).
Ask your feed maker if he would
encourage your dog to eat as much feed as desired during the
first year of life. If your feed maker hesitates perhaps it
is time that you seek a manufacturer who won't - ABADY.