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The Benefits of Beef Heart
It might not be the first thing you would think to serve in your dog’s bowl. As it turns out, though, beef heart offers a range of health benefits for your four-legged friend. By adding this nutrient-rich ingredient to your dog’s meals, you can offer them a natural source of the vitamins and minerals they need for optimum health.
Why Bone Broth is The Superfood Your Dog Needs
Bone Broth is one of the many superfood buzzwords you’ve probably already heard before. Recommended for us humans for its endless list of health benefits, the nutritious drink made up of brewed bones and connective tissues is highly beneficial, helping reduce inflammation, heal the gut, protect our joints and provide us with vitamins and minerals such as Iron, Zinc, Manganese and Vitamin A and K.
How to Transition to Raw
The benefits of transitioning your pet to a raw food diet are endless, but like any big lifestyle adjustment, starting is always the hardest part. When you are warming to the idea of swapping out the kibble for a raw diet, it is important to familiarise yourself with what may happen in the transition period, and to be prepared with solutions to keep you and your pets happy alike. Before we explain our approach - here are a few top tips from our team to help you along the way.
The Benefits of Green Lipped Mussels for Dogs
Native to the New Zealand coast, and used by indigenous communities for centuries due to their healing properties, green lipped mussels are a species of mussel with a distinctive green stripe around their shell. They are highly nutritious and are a common ingredient in dietary supplements and topical ointments to treat joint problems like arthritis in both humans and dogs. At The Raw Dog Food Co, we always recommend supplementing your dog’s diet with green lipped mussels - and here’s why.
A Guide to Feeding Your Dog Bones
There are a number of reasons to include bones as part of your dog’s diet. As well as being a source of essential nutrients, chewing bones encourages your dog to display natural behaviours which benefits their emotional wellbeing, and also helps to keep their teeth clean and healthy. There are many different types of bone available, so The Raw Food Dog Co has advice for how to incorporate bones into your dog’s diet.
The Raw Food Diet
The natural well-balanced diet for your dog should include Bones, Meat, Offal, Tripe, Vegetables, Fruit, Eggs, Flax seed oils, Kelp and supplements for their optimal health. In this section we’ll explain what the benefits are of all these elements and also advise the quantities of each to create the perfect meal.
Raw Feeding Dogs: 10 Simple Rules to Get Started by Dana Scott
While writing the copy for this site we were searching around the world for articles that were well written by passionate people that knew what they were doing. We came across this article written by a veteran Raw Food enthusiast Dana Scott. She makes sense and she provides a fresh and simple approach to the raw food diet programme. We hope you take a few minutes out of your day to read this article. Thanks Dana for agreeing to let us include your article on our site.