Most of us grew up feeding our animals out of bags or cans, so a biologically appropriate raw food program may seem unusual at first. But feeding dogs and cats raw food is not a new idea. Commercial pet foods have only been around for 65 years. What did people do before bags and cans?
People fed their animals butcher scraps or table scraps. I have never fed my animals processed food, even as a child, my family fed raw scraps to our animals. We also did not vaccinate and I can tell you from my own experience, that back then, dogs and cats were much healthier than they are today.
The average lifespan of dogs and cats now is ridiculous. They should be living twice as long! I had a pug that lived to 21 and a yellow Lab that lived to 18 1/2; both of them were rescue dogs and very sick when I got them. I improved their lives with natural, healthy, raw food meals and organic supplements, no drugs, no chemicals.
Sincerest regards,
Pat McKay
Hello from New Zealand. I felt I had to add my comment !
My glorious beautiful , Gorgeous 'old boy' Pushkin passed away in my arms in a perfectly NATURAL way, in our garden one glorious sunset evening at the ripe old age of 22 years just over a year ago.He spent a whole lifetime pigging out on raw rabbit, raw yoghurt mixed with wheatgrass juice. I don't BUY rabbit!! I go on a 30 mile cycle ride every morning and find road kill rabit. I also have a friend who is employed as a rabbit shooter on local vineyards and he is always leaving me the odd rabbit. We have another cat...a Maine Coon which abandoned her previous humans the moment they fetched a puppy home and she stalked up the road to us and has now been with us for 14 years. She, too, feasts on the same diet of rabbit, yoghurt and wheatgrass juice. So I guess you can say she is the epitome of an Anne Wigmore Lifestyle cat !!!!!!
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Posted by: leonel | February 16, 2009 at 02:04 PM
I feed my cats raw rabbit, turkey and chicken. Four of my cats are over 15 years old. Unfortunately, they ate kibble their first 9 years.
I also don't vaccinate, and when they get sick they fast and rest, so I let innate intelligence heal them. The last cat I took to the vet for a cold died.
The woman I buy my meat from has a raw-food Great Dane who is 17 years old. Imagine that!
Posted by: Joanne of Open Mind Required | February 15, 2009 at 06:51 PM