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Dogs should be fed in my opinion a diet consisting of raw meat,
raw meaty bones, vegetables (both root and leaf, but not potato and
parsnip as they need cooking), fruit, nuts and herbs.
Why the raw food diet ?
The drive of this approach is toward a wild-type diet. The cat and dog
have evolved over thousands of years to eat certain raw foods.
these foods then, logically, must best suited to optimal health.
There is an argument that dogs in different geographical areas of the
world will have evolved to eat variations on this basic wild diet. I think
this is probably the case, but the degree that this effects the dog is
minimal compared to the quantum shift from raw food to commercial.
First things first ay?.
The canine in the wild is essentially a hunter, scavenger. It will be eating
a very varied diet based mainly on hunted and scavenged ruminant
and small mammal carcases, scavenge fruit, berries, nuts and roots etc.
When they eat a carcase, they start with the viscera, including the gut
content (liquidised raw grass, cereal and vegetable matter), then move
onto muscle and other tissues. They are finally left with bone on which
to chew.
For further insight into natural diet Nick Thompson recommends reading:
The barf diet by Dr. Ian Billinghurst.
Raw meaty bones by Dr. Tom Lonsdale
Natural nutrition for dogs and cats by Kymythy Schultze
Home- prepared dog and cat diets by Donald Strombeck
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