What is Raw, and why feed raw?

This blog is to catalogue my dogs' food and to hopefully encourage others to feed their pets a Biologically Appropriate Raw Food diet.

Raw feeding is precisely that. Feeding your dog Raw, unprocessed food (meat, raw meaty bones, and offal), as opposed to commercial kibbles (biscuits) and tinned 'meat' (more on these later).

Biologically speaking, domesticated dogs are almost identical to wild dogs and Wolves. They may have been tamed, but their teeth and digestive tract, stomach etc, is exactly the same now as it was thousands of years ago, and exactly the same as that of a wolf or fox.
Commercial pet foods have only been available for the last 60 or so years. It takes thousands of years for evolutionary changes to occur which reflect dietry changes.


A simple question here - who cooks for the wolf?

When a fox catches a chicken, he doesn't roast it before eating. Nor does he add grains or cereals or vegetables to it.

Why would our dogs be any different?



The Government and medical authorities are trying to encourage us (humans) to eat less 'junk food', and more home-cooked meals. They tell us how bad processed meals (ready meals) and meats are, and encourage cooking from scratch, and eating more fruit and veg, especially fresh, unprocessed foods and 'wholefoods'.

So why then, do we still think that feeding our pet a diet consisting entirely of processed packet or tinned foods, is the best thing for them?

The pet food manufacturers add in vitamins, and pet owners think this shows that the pet food is nutritionally superior for the animal than 'human food' (a joint of beef or piece of liver for example). But the vitamins that the pet food manufacturers add in, are vitamins and nutrients that occur naturally in meat and offal. The only reason why the pet food industry has to add these in (and then lists them) is because they do not include sufficient quantities of actual meat and offal in their products, and what they do add is cooked and processed so much that a lot of the essential nutrients are lost.
So they have this product which is nutritionally deficient, which they then have to add (mostly synthetic) vitamins and minerals to, just so that our pets survive (not thrive). The added bonus is that by adding these seperately, they can list them on the ingredient list, which makes owners think they are getting something good. Clever, huh?