Originally Posted by Karlitta

I too feed my dogs macrobiotic food - rice, oatmeal. I include veggies as well. Here I want to give some advise however - I avoid feeding them raw onions, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower. Those veggies are supposedly bad for their digestion. Fruits are on their menu sometimes. This depends on the individual dog (I own three). Chicken and fish in small quantities are also added to the rice dishes.
One of my Japanese friends includes 2 tbsp of cooked pumpkin into her dog's diet. Her dogs suffers from a stomach ailment. All her cats have lived to be a ripe old 18 years of age. Her mother's cat in Japan is still alive and well at the age of 23.