Dog Dish Diet in the Azores

As Lonna and I wrap up a marvelous vacation in the Azores and enjoy the dayswe’ve spent together with good friends, it’s time again to focus on the business of dogs and their diets.

Actually, the subject is never completely out of my mind. More than a week ago I went into a pet shop in Lisbon and saw that Royal Canin dry dog food was on display. One rabbit hunter here (that is the only thing to hunt) feeds his 13 dogs Purina dry dog food that he buys from the US military base here.

Here in Angra, a small town, on the island of Terceira there are French Briards, German Shepherds, Boxers and various crosses standing on every wall guarding their territory. They are the alarm system of this small town in the Azores Islands. As I walked down the street, I would trip one “alarm” after the other. Some dogs would do a small amount of obligatory barking; one crazed Dalmation tried to bend his iron bars to get on our side.

As I walked down a country mountainous dirt road outside of town, lined by hydrangea and honeysuckle flowers, a country guard dog bolted out of his gate. I stood my ground and pointed my finger at him like “Crocodile Dundee” did to the bull. He looked at me strangely, turned abruptly and ran under his gate where he came from.

It worked!!

If dogs were to eat healthful human food–one of the concepts I explain (and how to do it safely and effectively) in my book Dr. Greg’s Dog Dish Diet–here in the Azores, that diet would be fish, ham, linguisa, bread, cheese and wine. On second thought, we probably should keep that last item just for ourselves. Bone Appetit!

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