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Benefits of a Raw Diet

Better weight control

Quality animal proteins, healthy fats, vegetables containing vitamins and phytonutrients are what your dog needs to stay lean and healthy. Processed diets are heavy in carbohydrates and synthetic nutrients and light on quality protein. Just look what happens to humans who eat a high carbohydrate diet.

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The gut-brain axis links the gut microbiome with brain function. By eliminating synthetic vitamins, minerals and preservatives and improving gut health, you can positively affect your dog's behaviour.

Improved digestion

Living enzymes in fresh food faciltiate digestion and help your dog grow a more diverse range of healthy gut bacteria. This makes it easy for your dog to properly absorb the nutrients it needs from their food. If food is able to pass through the gut lining into the bloodstream without being properly broken down, this condition is called leaky gut. Many of the most common health issues we see today in dogs, like itchy skin, stem from poor gut health.

Oral health

Stinky breath comes from poor oral and gut health. Starches in dry food cause plaque and tartar to build up on teeth. This usually will result in a trip to the Vet and your dog undergoing a general anaesthetic to have his teeth cleaned. Bacterial endocarditis, an infection affecting the lining of the heart, is commonly seen in dogs with dental disease.

Shiny Coat

When they’re healthy on the inside they’re literally shining on the outside. Up to 40% of the protein your dog eats goes into growing it’s coat. Dog parents often comment on how much softer and shinier their dog's coat feels on a raw diet.

Smaller poop and better hydration

Fresh food has a high moisture content so your dog will naturally be hydrated, and not in a state of constant dehydration, as with dry food. The result is they need to drink a lot less water, so they wee less. Without all the indigestible bulking ingredients found in dry food there is a lot less waste matter to pick up at the park.

Farting

Does your best friend clear the room with a silently deadly? Feeding processed food leads to poor gut health and flatulence is a sign. Feeding fresh food helps to eliminate these problems.

Strengthened immune system

Over 80% of the immune system resides in the gut - so a healthy gut results in a healthier dog.

What stays out

Powders like ‘chicken meal’, which are the end product of the rendering process.
Synthetic vitamins and minerals which have questionable bio availability, are sprayed on as coating at the end to “balance” the nutrients.
Starchy filler ingredients which are often very cheap or left over from other food manufacturing practices.
Palatability coatings sprayed on at the end to make it smell and taste enticing.

Preservatives to give it < 10 years of shelf life. Feeding dry food is feeding Long Life food to your dog every day of its life.
Brown Pellets and no misleading Labels that split ingredients to move the proteins up and the less desirable ingredients down.
Long lists of ingredients with unpronounceable names are not a sign of a food quality. Look out for the salt splitter on ingredients lists. Salt usually sits about 1% – so anything listed after salt will be in minute “barely there” quantities.

What you may not realise about kibble

Health professionals have been telling us for a long time that
a highly-processed diet is not good for us, so it’s logical it is
bad for your dog too.
The protein in kibble is often derived from sources other
than meat. It is packed full of highly-processed starches and
carbohydrates as fillers and binders. The percentage of
protein in dry food is often inflated through the inclusion of
non meat ingredients that contain protein.
Most kibbles – grain free or not – are up to 50%
carbohydrates, which convert to sugar in the blood stream.
Sugar feeds yeast and is linked to itching, skin irritations,
diabetes, yeast infections, ear infections, obesity and cancer.

When kibble manufacturers removed the grains to produce a
‘healthier’ grain free product, they replaced them with other
starches like potato, tapioca, peas, and tomato pomace. You
cannot make a kibble without including a serious amount of
starch.
Dogs only have a biological need for 5-7% carbohydrates so
when you feed your dog a fresh food, high in quality animal
protein, you’re feeding them what they were born to eat.

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Benefits of a Raw Diet

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Benefits of a Raw Diet

Better weight control

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Improved digestion

Oral health

Shiny Coat

Smaller poop and better hydration

Farting

Strengthened immune system

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What stays out

What you may not realise about kibble

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