A Poor Diet Leads to Accumulation of Fecal Matter in the Colon of Your Dog
As your dog grows older, he should be fed only a proper and well balanced diet. The importance of the quality of the diet increases as the dog grows older. Each and every degenerative disease that aged dogs suffer is the result of deficiency in nutrition and poor absorption of nutrition.
There is consensus amongst authorities that aged dogs require additional vitamins and mineral supplements. They should be given lesser quantity of higher quality food. As the owner of a dog, it is your duty to identify symptoms of degenerative disease and correlate them with non-fulfillment of the nutrition requirements of the dog. The dog has no concern about its nutritional requirements. It does not care whether they have been fulfilled or not. A young dog can manage the lacunae in his diet. However, as the dog grows older, the lacunae result in illnesses.
Most of the experts agree that there is essentially only one canine disease- toxemia. This condition refers to the presence of waste in the cells of the dog. The waste causes the cells to either malfunction or cease to function. This condition may be given different names. However, the disease is essentially the same. The dog suffers this disease only because we feed the wrong foods. We are responsible for the presence of this condition in our dogs.
Most of the canine illnesses occur due to putrefaction in the colon. As years progress, the colon develops rings of fecal waste. The fecal waste solidifies in the colon and this impairs the peristalsis in the body of the dog. The wave like motion used by the digestive system to push the food from one end of the body to another end gets impaired due to the fecal waste. The accumulation of the rings of fecal matter can be compared to the accumulation of rings in the trees. The older the tree, more are the number of rings. Older the dog, more are the number of rings of fecal matter in the intestine of the dog.
Impairment of peristalsis leads to a vicious cycle where fecal matter accumulation impairs peristalsis and the impairment of peristalsis leads to more accumulation of the fecal matter. This cycle increases the presence of bacteria in the colon. Absorption of nutrients through the wall of the intestines stops. The flexure that pushes the food from the small to the large intestine gets covered in fecal matter and jams. Needless to say, the health of the dog suffers due to this.
It has been noticed that dogs rarely suffer from cavities. It has been speculated that the lack of cavities may be due to the fact that the enamel surface of the teeth of the dog is harder and more immune to cavities. Another possible factor is the fact that the digestion of starch in dogs begins in the intestinal tract while it begins in the mouth of the humans. The fact that amylase is not present in the saliva of the dogs but is present in the saliva of the humans may be one reason.