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PET NUTRITION

The right diet can help pets to stay healthier and live longer. It can even help prevent or manage certain diseases. A high quality diet will provide your pet with the correct balance of essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients needed for optimum health.Your pet will benefit in many ways, from a shinier coat to a boosted immune system. Dogs and cats are carnivores. Prepackaged feeds are full of preservatives and "dead" food/nutrients with no vital life force left in them. A raw diet or biologically appropriate raw food (BARF) diet is ultimately best for them.  The best thing you can do to help your pets live the Longest and Healthiest Life possible is provide them with a Quality Premium food. Dogs and cats have thrived in good health on real, raw food for many thousands of years.

With regard to nourishment, quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality. It is very possible for an animal to receive adequate quantities of food and yet still suffer degradation of health due to poor quality ingredients.  Each dog and cat is unique and what is best for one may not work well for another. Feeding a variety of foods is the best way to provide all or most of the nutrients that your pet needs. A good Quality multi-vitamin is a great alternative, coupled with a variety of other foods, to help ensure that our pets are getting at least as much of the recommended daily requirements of each of the necessary nutrients that we can possibly give them. Complete raw-foods diets are also sold as frozen, dry or freeze-dried. Some areas may have local entrepreneurs who make and sell these diets fresh. They may also custom make meals to your pets specifications.

Whole meats are generally much better then meat meals. Single source meals, such as "beef meal" or "chicken meal" are more wholesome than those marked simple "meat" or "poultry". Avoid by product meals at all costs, their just fillers with no or very little nutritional value and consistant consumption of foods like these are unhealthy for your pet because they simply don't provide the vitamins and minerals and other important nutrients needed to help build a healthy immune system.

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