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Pet food makers insist that commercial dog food is designed for a complete and scientific laboratory designer dog food which is superior to what comes off your dinner table. Do you really believe this?

The current ad campaigns dog food show commercials of dogs jumping over fences in the meadows, and little puppy faces that are claimed to be rescued from animal shelters as part of the manufacturers of pet foods public relations campaign aiming to restore a very tarnished image to the consumer.

Their high glossy labels and packaging adorn your pet food store with claims that their dog food is "nutritionally balanced" and the most popular tasty food your dog will ever eat in its life time. They claim that they have substantiated that their formulas for dog with arthritis and diet dog food, dog food for senior dogs, for puppies, for fat dogs and for everything under the sun. Much of these claims are unsubstantiated and there are no advertising restrictions or regulations to stop them yet.

Home Made Dog and Cat Food:

Homemade dog food has never killed a dog or cat that I know of but commercial pet foods have killed thousands of pets. Today one year after the pet food recall of March, 2007 commercial dog food just cannot be trusted nor have the manufacturers changed the ingredients. There is more doubt today that commercial pet food can sustain life, but can it sustain good health?

Experiments performed in the 1930's by Dr. Francis Pottenger proved that it took four generations of cats fed totally raw foods to regain optimum healthy teeth, bones and health.

Raw is The Best Food:

Cooking destroys vitamins, amino acids, damages proteins and vital enzymes while changing the molecules of fat. If foods are lightly steamed these vital components of food remain relatively intact.

Raw Diet for Beginners:

Transitional diets for dogs that have never been fed raw foods can begin with raw veal, turkey, chicken, beef and ground meats, preferably organic meats. If you can locate a butcher or an organic farmer you can buy bulk and have the meats ground. Also chicken, liver, calves, liver, kidneys, chicken giblets, sardines, yogurt, cottage cheese all with no fat can be a quick meal for your dog.

Raw Food Beginners Recipe:

Ground Bow Wow Dinner:

1 lb of ground beef (lean)
cup of lightly steamed vegetables. (Broccoli, green beans, carrots)
1 cup of rice or other grains like buckwheat, or couscous
1 full tablespoon of garlic powder
cup parsley chopped

Mix together thoroughly and keep in a container for feeding depending on your dog breed it should feed for a few days or more. This recipe is a blend of a protein, vegetables and grains with the added benefit of flea control for the summer.

Add bran, or any supplements with the food as well as a digestive enzyme such as Papaya enzymes which is very inexpensive and available at most health food stores.

This will help your dog digest and is made from the papaya fruit, just crush it up and add it to the bowl at each meal. Your dog will digest better as well as eliminate toxins.

Dog breeders know the value of garlic powder and regularly use it sprinkled on food for flea problems for many generations of dogs.

You really have to get back to basics and decide for yourself what is more natural than raw foods that do not come out of a can and how they can enhance your dog's life.

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