Feeding

The links below are for a raw meaty bones diet Biologically Appropriate Raw Foods affectionately known as BARF

About cooked vs. raw:
http://www.naturopathic.org/articles.lay/EK.RawvsCooked.html

BARF Site
http://willowglen.com/barf.htm

FAQ & also here is the Web Ring made up of sites who feed only BARF
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/7244/diet.html

Another good site about enzymes
http://www.orcote.com/heartandhealth/nutrition/enzymes.html

There is a book called the Complete Book of Enzyme Therapy by Dr. Anthony J. Cichoke,
with lots of information on the benefits of enzymes and the
problems when they are heated 
over 104 degrees F. sure is an interesting book.  

Reference book on enzymes
http://www.orcote.com/heartandhealth/nutrition/enzymes.html

Raw foods and what is wrong with cooked foods, kibble and canned foods.
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1158/animals.htm

Natural diet survey
http://members.aol.com/abywood/www/gsur_toc.htm

See your vet bill fall with raw meaty bones
http://members.aol.com/abywood/www/gd_bone.htm

Chart for risk with raw chicken wings
http://members.aol.com/abywood/www/risk_rcw.htm

Books Shops
http://www.health-and-healing.org/Books/nutritio.html#anchor13715439
http://listservice.net/wellpet/index.htm

BARF discussion list
http://disc.server.com/Indices/55919.html

Raw-Recruits e-mailing list:
http://freespace.virgin.net/maralyn.olsen/

Kymythy Schultze's home page
http://home.earthlink.net/~affenbar/

Article by Kymythy
http://www.sentex.net/~sirius/nutro001.htm

Raw diet & BARF are on one list at:
http://www.onelist.com

There is a raw diet list for giant breeds
Natural-Giant@onelist.com

There are several other raw feeding lists like naturallypet, allnaturalcanine

Forum on BARF for BARFers
http://plank-road.com/wwwboard2/barf/barf.shtml


From worst to best the different ways of feeding:

  1. Grocery store kibble & canned foods
  2. Better quality grocery store kibble and canned foods
  3. Natural Canned foods
  4. Various "natural" kibbles (usually mail order only)
  5. Home Cooked food
  6. Organic grocery store foods
  7. Raw grocery store foods
  8. Raw organic foods
  9. Raw meaty bones and raw foods
  10. Raw Organic meaty bones and raw foods

Books on feeding raw meaty bones:

"The Ultimate Diet" by Kymythy Schultze (no grains)

"Give Your Dog A Bone" by Ian Billinghurst ---"Grow Your Pups With Bones" by Ian Billinghurst
(Billinghurst has now dropped the grains since he wrote these books)

You can order all these books from:
http://www.dogwise.com

(the new name of Dog & Cat Book Catalogue's website), or phone them at 1-800-776-2665

Lab eating raw meaty bone chicken:
http://www.barfdiet.com
http://www.geocities.com/~lyncamp/diets.html

Some reasons not to feed kibble and canned dog food:

4 DDDD meat
http://www.api4animals.org/Petfood.htm
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/ofo/hrds/slaugh/redmeat/condemnd.pdf
http://www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/Petfood.html
http://www.zeta.org.au/~lonsdale/Default.html

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