Feeding Your Pets the Healthy Way and The Right Way

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Pet owners consider their pet part of the family most of the time. You treat your pet the best you can because they are people who are very dear to you. So why would you feed your family food that will harm their health. Would you ever think that something called BARF could be healthy for your family pet? When it stands for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones and Raw Food it certainly does mean it is healthy. Feeding your dog or cat a nutritionally balanced raw food diet is a beneficial way of allowing the, to live long healthy lives. Raw food diets lead to healthier pets that have a much higher energy level, less ailments and less skin allergies.(pets.webmd) This is the right way to treat your family pet which is with love and respect.

For thousands of years dogs and cats have been consuming raw, live food, which includes meat, fruits, and vegetables. Dogs have always been omnivores, eating raw meats, fruits, berries, and vegetables; it is their natural diet. Whereas cats which have always been carnivores which are meat and fish eaters. It has only been within the last 100 years or so that we started feeding our pets “bagged” dog food. Processed bagged or canned pet food became a much easier way of feeding our pets that was quick, less messy and less costly, where they can survive, but perhaps not thrive. This bagged and processed food is mostly fillers and contains very little nutrition value; it is just another easy cash out for these big brand companies.

The founding father of a back-to-basics raw food diet for dogs and cats originated with Doctor Ian Billinghurst, an Australian veterinarian. Dr. Billinghurst noticed that his patients [dogs] were developing skin allergies, diabetes, kidney failure, cardiac...

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