There are several benefits of feeding your dogs a raw diet, you can notice several changes in your pets within a few weeks of transitioning to a raw, natural diet. Our pets should thrive and live longer and it is essential that our pets eat food that makes them healthy. Kibble is merely fast food for pets. You may be willing to buy the best of every accessory, toy, and clothing for your pets, but what you can’t buy is your pet’s health once it’s lost. When your pets eat an unhealthy diet their digestive system starts to deteriorate. We may be technologically advanced to tackle health issues these days, but as the saying goes, prevention is better than cure! Nutrition is one of the main cornerstones of health, so feeding your pets the most biologically available, species-appropriate diet is a great path to choose when working towards optimum health.
As we have now learned that dogs are facultative carnivores, it means that they require essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals from their food, because their bodies cannot process them naturally. These are mostly found in meat, bones, and organs. A natural raw diet provides nutrition that goes well with your pets’ bodies. If you consider for a while that raw food is a language for your pet’s body, then you know that the pet understands raw, natural, nutrient-dense food as it’s vernacular, and ultra-processed diet is a language your pet wouldn’t understand. Raw eating in cats and dogs is ancestral and it is how nature intended. Can you imagine people in ancient years, opening a bag of kibble and serving their domesticated pets? Did that happen? Early dogs and cats were allowed to scavenge and find their own food, they never found a bag of kibble as their food source.
The right type of nutrition boosts gut health and function, supporting the growth of beneficial microbes. Always remember, your pet’s health starts from their gut. Our pet’s gut is fragile and is very easily compromised and you as a pet parent must understand that whole living nutrition is far more superior to processed sourced diets with synthetic vitamins. A new year has just begun and we will start making resolutions this year, in order to make a few changes to be better than what we used to be, let us also focus on making those life changes for our pets and we are here to help you get started.
THE TRANSITION FROM KIBBLE TO RAW
Ideally, your pets should be eating an all-natural, raw diet that contains organ meat and bones but transitioning from kibble to raw takes some time. Some pet parents introduce raw food to their pets slowly. They mix it up with a combination of raw, Air-Dried food, and kibble. Air-Dried treats are a great way to start introducing your pets to raw food. Air-Dried raw food is as good as feeding your cats and dogs raw but in a very convenient way. Air-Dried treats are considered one of the most ideal grain-free treats for our pets. The process of dehydrating is, as its name suggests, taking out moisture from the ingredient till it is dry and crispy. They lock in all the essentials without losing their nutrient value. Air-Dried treats keep your pet’s teeth clean, exercise their chewing muscles, and provide a natural source of balanced calcium and phosphorus, as well. Natural, hormone-free, and antibiotic-free or organic meat is best.
When introducing raw bones to dogs they may experience diarrhea, constipation, or both as their system takes time to adjust. Remember to go slowly and feed small amounts at first.
Once you make the switch you will start noticing improvements in your pet’s health. Below you will find a list of benefits of raw feeding.
BALANCED ENERGY LEVELS
A raw diet is low in carbohydrates and high in protein which leads to a stable glucose level in your pet’s blood. Pet Chefin’s raw food and Air-Dried treats do not contain additives or preservatives which tends to reduce their level of hyperactivity.
ANAL GLAND HEALTH
The bone content in raw food helps in creating firmer feces, moreover, raw food is easily digested by your pet’s body, therefore, creating lesser excrement.
IMPROVED APPETITE
Raw food has faster gastric processing. Due to its high moisture content, it does not expand when mixing with gastric juices, preventing that bloating feeling.
IMPROVED BEHAVIOUR
Complete raw diets meet the nutritional needs as well as the psychological needs of your pets and improve your pet’s behavior. Some meats are rich in tryptophan. Tryptophan is a natural amino acid found in many proteins, which is involved in the production of the hormone serotonin and has been shown to help reduce aggression and stress.
ENHANCED NUTRITION
Raw food optimizes immune function and stimulates the growth of beneficial microbial commensals. The intestinal microbiome plays a big role in an individual animal’s health. Bacteria in the gut assist in the digestion of nutrients, synthesize vitamins, prevent infection, impact the immune system, and promote the development of several organ systems, including the gastrointestinal tract and brain.
DIETARY FLEXIBILITY
A raw diet is very flexible, it can be customized according to a pet’s requirement. Be it a protein-rich diet, balanced carbohydrate, or low bone content, each meal can be equally measured and crafted according to a pet’s dietary needs.
IMPROVED ORAL HYGIENE
Chewing edible raw bones or Air-Dried treats allows for natural cleaning of your pet’s teeth, due to the low sugar and starch content of raw food plaque is less likely to develop.
OBESITY
Raw food is high in protein and low in carbohydrates, this leads to healthy weight loss in pets and helps them gain a lean, muscular body.
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