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What is Feeding Raw all about?

Feeding Raw - it refers to a type of diet fed to dogs (and cats) which totally excludes all commercial dog foods. Clinical trials  indicate there are key advantages to a natural raw diet for our pets: increased lifespan, reduced obesity, healthier teeth, enhanced digestion, greater stamina, improved fertility, fewer ailments

Why should I feed a raw diet?

 A raw diet provides a range of benefits that commercial dog diets can never hope to even closely match.

These benefits include:

• no doggy odour

• naturally cleans teeth - no need for toothbrushes,

• de-scaling jobs, or gum diseasethe time it takes for a dog to chew a raw meaty bones give their stomach adequate time to get the acids moving

• much less stools produced - and they are firm, and turn chalky after a couple of days

• decreased or non-existant vet bills (your dogs are healthier!)

• puppies develop at a more appropriate rate - and quick growth spurts are avoided. A GOOD breeder will want to stop fast growth in any pup.

• the ripping and chewing involved in eating raw meaty bones develops the jaw, neck, and shoulder muscles of the dog. Commercial dog foods will never assist in this important muscle development.

People who have switched their dogs to a raw diet from commercial dog foods have found the following:

• dogs who were previously un-energetic, and sluggish become completely new dogs once the raw diet feeding begins
• allergies their dogs previously had on commercial foods, disappear once they start with the raw diet
• arthritis has significantly reduced or disappeared in some dogs switched to raw
• better weight control
• no more doggy odour!
• their dogs are living longer on a raw diet than what their other dogs previously had survived on commercial dog foods
• that their bitches managed their pregnancies better
• better weight and survival figures in puppies

Raw food diets offer our companion animals a species appropriate, nutritionally sound alternative to eating processed, cooked pet foods. Comprised of human grade meat and poultry products with the addition of a variety of fruits, vegetables, vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids, commercially available raw food diets provide a nutrient dense source of food in a 100% digestible format.

Evidence of the benefits of feeding raw present themselves quickly with such characteristics as an increase in energy, clear eyes, lush soft coats, bright white teeth, healthy pink gums, slim and muscular body tone as well as healthy bowel and intestinal health.