Our pets can benefit from an all natural diet. You can make your own
pet food to spare your animal companion(s) from the diseases caused by
highly processed, non-nutritive pet foods sold commercially today,
using ground-up veggies and/or the vegetable pulp from the juicer,raw
eggs and the pulverized shells, and use other natural foods. (Don't
feed fruits and veggies at the same time, and hold the onions.) You can
put the vegetables throught the blender or chop them up so that they are
broken down to be more easily digested by your dog or cat. Don't
forget to add some or all of the veggie juice back if you are juicing the veggies. You can add a bit of garlic to your dog's diet to help build up
immunity and possibly keep off mosquitos and fleas. A small amount of cold-pressed oil in the mix is good for helping the natural oils in the skin and
aids digestion by preventing constipation.
You can look for meaty bones for your dog in the clearance meat section at the store.
Your cat or kitten may prefer raw chicken bones, especially the wings, to beef bones. For little kittens the bones may need to be ground or chopped up. I have given the wing-tip bone, whole wings, chicken legs, and turkey
necks whole to our cats when they were kittens. Sometimes they ate them and sometimes they were too picky! I like to give our pets an occasional raw, meaty bone for calcium, cleaning teeth, and exercising jaw muscles.
(Cooked bones are the ones that splinter and cause problems.)
Remember that animals can eat raw meat without having digestive
problems they way we would! The good Lord make them differently so
that they could survive in the wild. Wild animals never cook their
food!
Of course there are some good, natural pet foods sold in pet stores. I supplement our dogs' food by making pet food from raw meat, bones, veggies, oils, eggs, and supplements.
READ THE LABELS before you buy (good advice for "people" food, too!) and avoid those which are the cheapest, using animal by-products and other items that your pet would not normally eat if given a choice. See if it's naturally preserved and says that there are no artificial ingredients or preservatives. Check out some of the pet links for more info on this subject. There are lots of books with information to help you, too. You can read about some of them on the pet links.
