Raw Food Diets for Dogs Ensure Health and Longevity

Dog owners are usually passionate about their beloved pets, but unfortunately, the pet food industry in general is not as passionate about ensuring the food they produce is the optimal product for the health and vitality of your dog.

As with any industry there are many large corporations who include a number of fillers and additives in their dry dog food products, designed to make the manufacturing cheaper and their pricing more competitive. Unfortunately most of those ingredients lead directly or indirectly to a wide range of health problems with our best friends.

Those health problems range from ear infections, skin rashes, allergies, urinary tract infections, itchy skin and weeping eyes, through to arthritis, picky eating and diabetes. Even some dog food brands which purport to be scientifically formulated and sold exclusively through vet clinics can be extremely damaging to the health of your dog.

Scientific research shows clearly the close relationship between dogs and wolves - they share 99.8% of the same DNA, and their digestive systems are designed to eat the same kind of diet that wolves eat in the wild - in other words, a diet largely made up of raw meat with small amounts of other naturally occurring foods like berries on the side.

The digestive tract of a dog is not designed to handle grains or cereals at all, and unfortunately cereals including rice are one of the most widely used fillers in standard, commercial pet food.

Fortunately, companies like New Zealand's K9 Natural have gone back to basics to develop an easy to feed dog food that meets all the requirements of our dogs' digestive systems. A predominantly raw dog food diet, be it in the form of frozen meat and bones, or products like K9 Natural's freeze dried range.

For a list of ingredients you should look for and avoid when you are buying a quality dog food for your pets, please read on ...

Chicken by-Products, Chicken by-Product Meal, Poultry by-Product Meal, Beef and Bone Meal, Beef Tallow, Pork Fat, Meat By-Products, Meat Meal, Meat By-Product Meal, Salt, Dried Egg Product, un-natural & carcinogenic preservatives such as BHT (Butylated Hydroxytoluene), BHA (Butylated Hydroxyanisole) & Ethoxyquin, Dried Beet Pulp, Corn, Corn Meal, Corn Gluten, Corn Grits, Fish Oil, Wheat Gluten, Brewer’s Rice, Sorghum, Fish Meal, Rice, Oats, Barley, Wheat Bran, Rice Hulls, Monocalcium Phosphate, Powdered Cellulose, Rice Gluten, Brewer’s Yeast, Meat and Bone Meal, Animal Digest, Animal Fat, any Wheat Products and any Soy Products.