Raw Food Diet for Dogs & Cats
The Benefits of Raw Food
While canines and felines have been tamed throughout the hundreds of years and we have come to consider them essentially as pets, biologically they are still wild creatures. Felines are carnivores, feeding on small wild animals, and they’re notable for showing this by infrequently bringing dead mice and feathered creatures into the house as offerings to their “appreciative” owners. Mutts are omnivores, likewise intended to have a diet of raw prey creatures plus whatever they can scavenge from their environment.
It appears more and more cat and dog owners, are coming away from commercial dog and cat food as they contain substantial measures of grains, which is inappropriate for dogs and cats, and not a lot that you’d consider natural at all..
Felines specifically as “obligate carnivores” are unable to process vegetable matter in their gut (this is why cats eat grass to help them vomit when they feel the need to) and have evolved to derive all their nutrients from meat. These nutrients are artificially added to commercial feline food which, since it contains minimal real meat, would somehow or another poor nutritiously for them. It doesn’t appear like the best food to feed your pet on isn’t that right? It’s like a person eating the cheapest of cheap sausages every single day, then taking a palmful of multivitamins to make up for one’s poor diet.
In any case, how would you feed your pet raw food? Sourcing little dead creatures every day is clearly to some degree impractical, unless you live beside a butcher’s shop, or a zoo, who unsurprisingly tend to feed raw meat to their genuinely-wild versions of our pooches and felines. Could you envision lions and wolves eating canned food? “8 out of 10 zookeepers said their lions favoured it!” – I really don’t think so!
Thankfully some companies now, one being called Nature’s Menu have built up and developed a different range of raw food dinners for both cats and dogs, conveniently packaged and frozen for simple storage at home. No artificial colouring, flavours or preservatives are used. Just human-grade meat from ethical farms is used, and every raw food meal is always nutritionally balanced to provide the most natural food possible for your pet.
For example, the raw canine food incorporates ground bones similarly as they would eat in the wild, this gives essential calcium and minerals. Some rice and vegetables are added to give vitamins, in addition to prebiotics and antioxidants for total and great wellbeing.
The raw feline food is a naturally blend of quality British meats, made into wonderful soft chunks which will satisfy your feline’s instinct for raw, fresh food. The raw food packs are fortified with some not so common ingredients such as cranberries (to help to support a healthy urinary tract) and grapeseed extract, a powerful antioxidant to boost your feline’s immune system.
In addition, Nature’s Menu and the other brands also have a range of cooked dog and cat food pouches; the food is steamed after it’s packaged, so all the nutrients and goodness remain in the pouches. It is certainly the next-best thing to raw.
Here at Barehams we are the largest local stockists for:
- Albion Meat Products
- Benyfit Natural
- Cotswolds Raw
- Frozzys
- Natural Instinct
- Natures Menu
- Nutriment
- Paleo Ridge
So why not come into our shop and get some packs and try your dog or cat on a raw food diet, we don’t think you’ll ever revert back.
