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Tag Archives: digestion
What You Need To Know About Water
Water is essential and eating a raw meat diet, a Barf Diet, gives our dogs the water they don’t get from eating a dry kibble diet. Learn more here. Technorati Tags: water, kibble, barf diet Bookmark to: Hide Sites
Why Kibble May Not Be Your Best Choice
What is the primary motive of kibble manufactures? Is it profit or nutritional value? Did you know that kibble formulations were designed to utilize cheap and left over ingredients from the human food chain (and mostly grain)? The inferior quality … Continue reading
Salmonella, Is Your Dog Food Contaminated?
With the recent announcement of pet food recalls it becomes important to understand the potential exposure to the salmonella bacteria and understand how to process and prevent an illness from the bacteria. Salmonella is a bacteria present in our food … Continue reading
Dangerous Pathogens In My Dog Food
Many say that raw food producers are ignoring the problems caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites. It is obvious that pathogens are present in raw meat diets. Just like it is obvious that dry heat processed kibble contain similar … Continue reading
What Your Dog Needs To Know About Wheat
The continuous daily ingestion of wheat gluten from grain based kibble diets could surely be the cause of a lot of digestive and allergic health conditions. Could this be one of the reasons why a meat based diet has such a reversing affect on serious digestive and allergic reactions? I think there is enough documented evidence to substantiate this position. BOTTOM LINE ADVICE- eliminate the wheat gluten from your dog diet. Continue reading
Why The Dog Stomach Has Acid
A dog’s stomach, even in the prime of health, is a tough neighborhood. Let’s take a quick tour of some of it’s most astonishing features, so that we can see why it is so vulnerable to attack. A dog’s stomach … Continue reading
3 Keys To Monitor Your Dog’s Health
The 3 keys to be monitoring your dogs health: Stool color and consistency Clarity of eyes Skin and Coat Occasionally, I get emails asking questions about raw feeding and it makes me conscious about the fact that not everyone understands … Continue reading
Dog Digestion
Comparing a dogs digestive ability to a humans is like comparing apples to oranges. Mother nature has given each species an appropriate digestive capacity. Dogs, mainly eat meat or at least should only eat meat. A dogs stomach acid (hydrochloric … Continue reading