Raw Dog Food
When a veterinarian is quoted as saying that nutrition is causing disease issues in dogs, then you start to think that perhaps raw dog food has a place in your dog’s diet, after all. In a study done on animals in Stockholm, Sweden, some young animals were fed processed and cooked foods, and they appeared at first to remain healthy. But, as the animals grew and matured, their age showed more quickly, and they developed disease symptoms of body degeneration. Another group of animals raised on raw dog food aged more slowly and they had no degenerative disease.
If you watch animals in the wild, they do not suffer from degenerative diseases like domestic animals do. They do face dangers from other wild animals, but otherwise, they seem to live healthy, long lives.
Humans are globally in pretty poor shape, as a whole, and we seem to be sentencing our pets to the same types of diseases that plague us. A researcher a number of years ago divided cats into two groups, feeding one group raw meat and the other canned and processed pet foods. Through three generations, the cats fed raw meat thrived while the cats fed canned food developed the same types of degenerative diseases that humans suffer from. We are speaking about dogs here, and the evidence shows that raw dog food can very likely be more healthy for them than processed and canned foods.
Dogs are like people, in that they need the amino acids, nutrients and enzymes in raw meat, to stay healthy. Coat and skin problems can result from lack of raw animal fat in your dog’s diet. Your dog needs at least 30% raw fat in his diet, and his system wasn’t made to break down cooked fat or cooked meats. Dogs are not susceptible to parasites or bacteria in uncooked meat, which is a main concern of owners. They don’t get salmonella because they have more acid in their digestive tract than we do.
Select choice raw meats and raw vegetables for your dog, and watch him bloom with good health. Let you dog eat what’s natural for him to eat – raw dog food - not what people think he should eat. He’ll be around for many years, and they will be happy and healthy years.