Home Cooked Food for a 11 year olf Peke

Question
hello i have a 11 year old Pekingese the love of my life.Currently i give him boiled boneless chicken mixed with veggies and ZiwiPeak an organic product.I also give him vitamins from Bayer for arthritis and mix organic apple cider vinegar in his daily drinking water.I have found many age marks on his skin and a few little yellow bumps.The vet called them  fat bumps.I give doodles lots of carrots and fruits as well but have cut down on the fruits.Pls can u recommend a better wholesome diet.Doodles has eye problems as well and i have to clean his eyes everyday .I would like to switch to a herbal or holistic eye cleaner can you please recommend an eye cleaner?Thanks bunches

Answer
Hi,
Please start to give your Doodles some plain, bottled drinking water. She needs this. Sounds like you are always doctoring her water--give her a little break will you? :-) Why would you want to switch her diet? Sounds like you are doing fine the way you are but I have a couple of suggestions.
As far as the cider, is your dog obese? Why are you using this? But if you are going to continue using it, please make sure that it is
made from the double fermentation of whole apples should be used, and it should not be distilled, filtered or pasteurized as these extra processing steps destroy many of the vitamins, nutrients and fermentation products that are thought to be important elements in apple cider vinegar's health benefits and weight loss properties.

The only thing I would suggest to you is to cut down on the number and amt. of the ingredients you are giving this dog. You can give too much a good thing. Give her one portion of fruits in the a.m. (a moderate amt, not a lot) and a portion of veggies at night..period. No more. You don't need to do this daily either. My first impression was that you are giving Doodles way too many ingredients in her diet. Simply.

To help the eye situation and her overall immune system you might want to add a probiotic and a dig enzyme. APA blend is a balanced vitamin supplement also. I use all three. These supplements are totally natural as they are loaded with blue green algae and come from Lake Klamath in Oregon.

I have a link to this Supplement Company if you'd care to check it out:

www.SimplexityHealth.com/susanbehlmar

Let me know if any of this helped. Oh, the bumps on her skin? Age and fat related. Not related and you cannot get rid of them Seems like all dogs get these in older age.

As far as eye cleaner? Just go to Walgreens and get the water they sell for eyes. I have three dogs and all three have eyes that junk  up. I squirt this water into the eyes about twice a week and gently wipe the eyes. Hard junk in the corners I soak with a warm, soft paper towel until I can manually remove it. You don't need eye cleaner unless there is a more serious problem. Just keep up your daily routine.