Why a raw diet

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 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 four main food groups of a good raw diet.

* Fresh, raw meat
* Some uncooked bone
* Some raw organ meats
* Some green vegetation

For more information on Natural Diets I invite you to read

Anatomy of a Carnivore

by Lew Olson, PhD Natural Nutrition

Http://b-naturals.com/Spr1999.php

Diet is Essential to Health

by Pam Craig, DMV

http://b-naturals.com/Nov2002.php

Raw Feeding including "prey model"

Jusamere Ranch, scroll down to "Can you give me some recipes" for prey model

http://www.justamere.com/newsletter/rawfeeding.asp

switching to Raw is Easy

by Susan Johnson

http://b-naturals.com/Jun2002.php

What's Really in Pet Food?

The Animal Protection Institute's report on what commercial pet foods really contain

http://www.api4animals.org/facts?p=359&more=1cat=286