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Lifelearn

I've been working with Lifelearn for the last two years as their consultant in nutrition, supplements, herbs and complementary therapies. It's been an eye opener to research supplements and write them up.

They are a company who do handouts for vets. They write them, vets then are able to modify them as they want and print and hand to you to explain more complex issues - in my case nutrition, supplements etc.

To see all the sheets I did, follow this link:

Lifelearn Supplements Handouts.

The Raw Food Diet

The drive of this approach is towards a wild-type diet.   The cat and dog have evolved over thousands of years to eat certain raw foods.  These foods then, logically, must be 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 affects the dog is minimal compared to the quantum shift from commercial to raw food.  First things first, ay!?

The Canid 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 bones on which to chew.

Cats are similar in that they will eat a whole carcase including fur, neural tissue and gut contents and so on. They will not tend to scavenge, and therefore are better adapted to fresher meat and a higher proportion of the diet as meat/tissue protein. This, therefore, must be reflected in the raw food diet fed today.

Rescue Dogs in India

We were lucky enough to be asked by Rachel at Tofla (Tree of Life for Animals) to prepare a diet using locally available foodstuffs. As you can see in the photo below - we did it and its now being made up daily for the dogs.

They're doing amazing work at Tolfa and we're very proud that we're a tiny part of it.

Please visit the site and take a look at the work they're all doing. Its very moving.

tolfa.org.uk

tolfa.org.uk

tolfa.org.uk