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Dogs, Grass, and Microbes

 

Dogs, Grass, and Microbes

Google “why dogs eat grass” and you’ll find 2,000,000 plus articles listing reasons from eating grass to compensate for missing nutrients in their diets to eating grass when they feel nauseated. I think these explanations have some validity, however, they do not tell the whole story.

Premium Dog Food Comes Naturally

 

Premium Dog Food Comes Naturally

Many brands claim to produce “premium dog food” or even “super premium dog food,” but what does that actually mean?

Are You Feeding Your Dog Offal?

 

Are You Feeding Your Dog Offal?

Offal, also known as organ meats or variety meats, the literal definition of offal is to “fall off”—that is, whatever falls off the skeleton during the butchering process.

Guidelines for Making a Complete and Balanced Diet for Dogs

 

Guidelines for Making a Complete and Balanced Diet for Dogs

Formulating a complete and balanced meat-based canine diet can be surprisingly tricky. Attempts can easily come up short on nutrition or long on calories if they don’t follow well-designed guidelines

The Importance of Lean Meats In Raw Diets

 

The Importance of Lean Meats In Raw Diets

Good meat-based recipes, certainly those intended to mimic The Ancestral Diet, start with lean bases and build from there.

Why Rotate Dog Food

 

Why Rotate Dog Food

Rotating poultry with ruminant meats provides a better balance of nutrients than either just poultry or just ruminant meats provide on their own.

Yes; Vegetables for Dogs!

 

Yes; Vegetables for Dogs!

I always strive to make canine diets complete and balanced, using whole foods and that includes vegetables. Some people who feed “prey-model diets” think that vegetables don’t belong in the canine diet, and question my recommendation of feeding vegetables to dogs, and a much lesser amount for cats.

Complete and Balanced Dog Diets

 

Complete and Balanced Dog Diets

Simply, it means it meets the latest scientific standards. Or that the food’s nutrient content meets or exceeds standards developed by various American and European agencies based upon the latest scientific studies of nutrient requirements of dogs and cats.

Buying Raw Pet Food

 

Buying Raw Pet Food

It’s a basic law of the universe that everything degrades over time. This applies to raw dog and cat food too.

Your Pets Health Potential

 

Your Pets Health Potential

The longer I worked with feeding a well-made raw meat diet to my dogs, the more I saw how much the health effects of this diet for dogs continue across generations.

Raw Feeding a Service Dog

 

Raw Feeding a Service Dog

In honor of International Assistance Dog Week, I wanted to speak to someone who works with a service dog first hand about their experience with raw feeding.

Comparing Nutrition in Pet Foods

 

Comparing Nutrition in Pet Foods

If you have ever compared one product to another in the supermarket you know what a challenge and what a headache this can be.