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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.
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.
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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.
Read Holisticvet Raw Food Preparation Tips here.
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 nutrition and supplement sheets I did, follow this link:
Lifelearn Supplements Handouts. |
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Our Alaskan Malamute, Suka, has always had an unforgiving tummy. Having been on dry food since we picked him up at 8 weeks old, not a month went by without having to put him back onto chicken and rice because he would be sick, have severe attacks of runny tummys or just no appetite. We were always told he had picked up some kind of tummy bug. It was always a worry, and we hated seeing him like that but he seemed to bounce back.
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Then in February 2009 at 18 months old he was so very ill and was diagnosed with Pancreatitis. After a few weeks when we thought we may lose him, he seemed to make small steps in the right direction and was given prescription canned food from the vets and medication for the rest of his life. That’s when we decided that he can’t spend the rest of his life on this food, he was losing weight every day, not to mention being concerned by the nutritional value of it. I had heard about natural feeding, but didn’t know how or where to start, so I looked on the internet for a holistic vet that could help get our little man back on track and living a normal happy life.
We went to see Nick Thompson in Bath, and instantly I had a great feeling about him, for once a qualified vet listened to my concerns and didn’t instantly dismiss natural feeding, in fact he encouraged it. Suka has been treated by Nick since February 2009, he has been on a raw natural diet with a couple of natural medicines as a support net for the first couple of weeks, and he is a different dog. Suka has never been so healthy, his tummy is 100% perfect for the first time in his life, his appetite is fantastic and he has gained 4kgs already.
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He gets a great variety of food, and the changes in him are ten fold, his coat, his energy, the list is endless. I have no hesitation in recommending Nick Thompson, he is always there to help no matter what time of day, and he never makes you feel like your worries are insignificant no matter how small they are. Suka is on a fantastic road to recovery and we have Nick Thompson to thank for that. Thank you Nick for making our baby well again!
Storm Rodger and Tom Wheeler.
Photo courtesy of www.samnooshka.com.
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Contact Holisticvet:
Nick Thompson
BSc (Vet Sci) Hons, BVM&S,
VetMFHom, MRCVS.
Apthorp, Weston Road,
Bath, BA1 2XT
nickthompson@holisticvet.co.uk
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I am only able to treat animals under my care. If you are not able to see me or get me to visit (anywhere in UK or Europe), then please go to bahvs.com for homeopathy vets, abva.co.uk for acupuncture vets or herbalvets.org.uk for herbal vets for your animal.
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