Why try a Raw Diet for your Dog or Cat?
A raw diet recreates the way our pet's ancestors have eaten in the wild for thousands of years. Dogs and cats are carnivores. Left to their own devices, their typical daily diet, like that of their wild cousins (wolves and the big cats), would involve catching (or finding) and eating another animal. A raw diet returns our pets to this more natural and healthy form of nutrition, as if they had hunted and caught their "perfect" dinner.
When a carnivore eats an herbivore (plant and grass eating animal) like a rabbit or a deer, the carnivore eats some meat, some bone, some organ meats (liver, heart, kidney, etc.), and a small amount of green vegetation contained in the herbivore's digestive tract. These ingredients are the five main food groups of a good raw diet. -From BravoRawDiet.com
(excerpt from Bravorawdiet.com)
More and more professionals in the world of dogs and cats (breeders, veterinarians, breed ring handlers, sports competitors) and thousands of concerned pet owners, are advocating a second look at what we feed our animals. There is a growing belief that dogs and cats need a raw, natural diet in order to be healthy and that commercial pet foods cannot supply the nutrients necessary for good health and a long life. An overabundance of the wrong ingredients may serve to satisfy a hungry pet, but they may also contribute to long-term health problems.
Just like us, our pets are what they eat.
And here's what raw-feeding pet owners around the world see in their raw-fed pets:
- Shinier, healthier skin and coats
- Cleaner teeth and fresh breath
- Better weight control
- Improved digestion
- Reduction of allergy symptoms
- Harder, smaller, less smelly stools
- More energy and stamina
- Decrease in abnormal hyperactivity
- Increased mobility in older animals
- Reduced or eliminated need for veterinary dental work