Can my dog go raw too?

Once you’ve embraced the raw food lifestyle for yourself, and started to see the health benefits, you may want to spread those benefits around, by encouraging your friends, family, children, parents, etc to try the occasional raw meal. Don’t forget the family pet – man’s best friend can also benefit from a raw diet.

BARF World – Biologically Appropriate Raw Food
Did you know that there is a quiet revolution underway in the dog food world? Thousands of astute, intelligent and progressive pet owners like you, with a deep love for their pets have now turned to the BARF DIET. People are desperately searching for a solution and want quick and natural results for pets with allergies, teeth and gum problems, hot spots, skin and coat problems and degenerative diseases. The answer is the BARF DIET. This diet is not new. In fact, this simple and ancient formula has kept dogs and cats happy and healthy for centuries.

Raw Fed Dogs – Feeding the way mother nature intended
Welcome to Raw Fed Dogs. I’m Kevin and I feed my pack of five dogs a raw prey-model style diet. I started researching raw diets back around 2000-2001. At that time I had nine dogs and B**F style diets were the big thing. Those diets are overly-complicated with lots of stuff dogs don’t need. They advocate feeding exact amounts of this and that with more supplements than one can shake a stick at. The amount of prep time alone…

DogChannel.com – Raw Food Diet for Dogs
A decade ago, BARF was the acronym that raw-feeders used to describe feeding raw, meaty bones to their canine companions. Coined by Australian veterinarian Ian Billinghurst, it stood for “Bones and Raw Food,” which later morphed to the eggheady-sounding “Biologically Appropriate Raw Food.” But now, everyone pretty much just calls it “raw.” Labels aside, the raw pet food movement got a lot of attention this spring, when wide-scale pet food recalls…

Jane Anderson’s Raw Learning – Learn how easy it is to feed a raw diet
Millions of people around the world feed their pets a raw diet. This is not a fad. If your vet does not support your quest for a healthy pet via a raw diet, please find another vet! Let’s face it, pet food companies and vets do not want you to feed a raw diet, because it harshly affects their profits. Isn’t it time your pet’s health came before someone else’s profits?

WebMD – Raw Dog Food: Dietary Concerns, Benefits, and Risks
Raw dog food diets are controversial. But the popularity of the diets — which emphasize raw meat, bones, fruits, and vegetables — is rising. Racing greyhounds and sled dogs have long eaten raw food diets. Extending those feeding practices to the family pet is a more recent idea…

Raw Food Life – Suggestions for getting Started with Raw Dog Food
The BARF diet consists mainly of raw meaty bones (approximately 50% bone/50% meat) and pulped vegetables and fruits mixed with raw organ meats (liver, heart and kidneys), yogurt, garlic and whole raw eggs. Supplements are added to supply the essential fatty acids. These oil supplements consist of…

Why feed a species-appropriate raw diet?
It’s what our pet carnivores evolved to eat. No man-made diet can hope to compare to fresh natural whole food. The benefits of a whole natural diet include improvements in multiple areas. Most people report significant improvements in all areas after switching to a whole natural diet. One of the simplest but most profound improvements is…

Dr Goodpet – The Ideal Diet
Dogs and cats evolved eating a natural diet consisting mainly of fresh protein sources. That is a fact. Through marketing, the pet food companies have convinced us that the only way our pets can stay healthy is by feeding them the “balanced diet” that they themselves manufacture…

Out of the Earth – Natural Raw Diet for Dogs
The Natural Raw Diet is based on a canine’s nutritional requirements. A wolf in the wild would eat the stomach contents of his kill first, providing him with enzymes, grains and vegetables. He would then proceed to eat the meat as well as some of the bones, providing him with protein and calcium. What a natural, raw diet does is “feed” the immune system with FRESH, RAW, WHOLE foods. This provides the body with all the necessary ingredients for optimum performance.