I became aware of BARF through my brother, Pat McGovern, who is a distributor in Redwood City, CA. I began feeding it to my 11-year-old dog that had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and degenerative heart disease. His prognosis was estimated at a few months or less. Now, a year and a half later, he is still alive and well to the amazement of his vets who refer to him as ‘the miracle dog.’ I believe BARF has been a major factor in his ability to overcome these diseases.
We hear it all the time; “We are what we eat”. You may have even observed this many times yourself, especially after the holidays. If you eat poor-quality foods over a long period of time, you may begin to feel sluggish, depressed, and often times will even experience some weight gain.
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Okay, I’ll admit you that a dog can’t speak English, Spanish or any other human language, but that shouldn’t stop us from “asking” our pets what their nutritional needs are. We must instead listen to what our pets are saying with their “body language”.
Feeding your pet an inferior quality diet that is not biologically appropriate for them can have long-term ramifications. A dog is a carnivore that has been partially-converted by nature to eat as an omnivore and forcefully trained by man to survive on a grain-based diet.
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A biologically appropriate raw food (BARF) diet is much different from kibble and canned food diets. A BARF diet is completely raw and never exposed to any heat processing (cooking). For your dog this means that all the enzymes, vitamins, and micronutrients found in the whole food ingredients are kept as close to their natural state as possible. Also, the proteins in a BARF diet have not been denatured by heat processing as they are fed in a raw state.
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