Julie Arnold
Want to change your Dog or Cat onto a Raw Diet?
Table of Contents
Raw Food Pricing, Complete vs Complementary
We put together these charts based on our most popular ranges to help customers work out what their Dogs are going to cost on a Raw Diet.
Nurturing Joyful Puppies with a Raw Diet: Insider Tips
Sometimes when a puppy is purchased, a breeder will tell the new owner that they need to keep the puppy on the same food for 6mths, I am sure this is simply because the breeder believes that the food they use is the best, and wants your puppy to do well, but healthwise there is no reason to wait to change your puppy over to a raw diet, infact, the sooner a puppy is changed over to raw, the better it is, as good nutrients, in their most bio-available form, are the best thing your puppy can get to help them grow fit and strong and have good healthy immune systems to build their natural immunity quickly and effectively.
Ready for a New Dog?
This is mainly done from the viewpoint of those who will be buying a puppy of a specific breed.
It is a very valid alternative to rescue a dog, but for some they will want a pup and this blog is specific to them.
Personal Experience Of Natural Diet and Healthcare Choices
Many dog owners tend to very quickly become fanatics about their breed, so there are lots of people on these lists, and one health issue which comes up time and again, and is helped a great deal and often even cured with a natural diet and healthcare approach is pancreatic weakness/issues.
My own Jess was the reason we found out about raw feeding all those yrs ago, she spent the first 6 yrs of her life very skinny, and underweight, with a constantly gurgly tummy, and vomiting and diarrhoea [v&d] on a daily basis with mucousy stools and seizures.
She was also highly nervous and skittish.
We spent years constantly changing from food to food periodically, trying to find one she would be o.k. on, to no avail. Our vet said she had Pancreatic Insufficiency, and, not realising at that time, that this was not something which he could diagnose ‘by sight’ I believed him and we followed his advise and started cooking for her ourselves. This helped a great deal, but she was still having the occasional bouts of v&d, and still would not put weight on and still was nervous [we actually believed she was just a highly nervous dog], and still had seizures albeit not as often.
We then found out about the barf version of the natural rawfeeding diets, and began also to learn about how damaging the usual flea/worm/tick treatments are on a dogs body, and that they are actually quite strong pesticides. We researched this further, not liking what we were finding out, and found the natural alternatives which can be used in replacement of these toxic treatments.
The barf [biologically appropriate raw food] diet is a diet of fresh raw meaty bones and raw meat, fish, eggs and vegetables. She was switched very suddenly to the natural diet, as we felt things couldn’t get any worse than they already were, for any of us [!] and from day one the gurgling stopped dead, there was no more mucous, and no more vomiting or diarrhoea ‘at all’ and she suddenly filled out to look like a 6 yr old dog – instead of a skinny pup ! We had lovely small, firm, properly coloured stools which could so easily be picked up and leave no mark.
It was amazing – the weight came on seemingly ‘overnight’, the nervous, skittish disposition just totally went, the seizures totally stopped over a short period of time, and she became instead one of the most loving, calm, motherly dogs we have had the privilege to share our lives with.
Was it pancreatic insufficiency?
I believe it was, as this breed is susceptible to it, and the more I have heard about it over the years, the more the picture fits – and a natural, and more species appropriate diet and more natural healthcare choices which were kinder and gentler on her body, was the only answer we found in 6 yrs of looking.
J.Arnold 2008
