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What Dancing Paws Says About: Raw Food Diets
Some benefits of a raw diet include:
Feeding this diet has become a bit of a controversial subject in the veterinary community. Some doctors advise against raw food because they claim the bacteria content is too high. As long as you're careful in your handling of the food, ensure that you purchase it from a reputable source, and clean up thoroughly after preparing it, the risk for contamination is very low. Dogs and cats have more naturally occurring means to handle bacteria than we do. As long as the food is not rancid, you're probably in pretty good shape. The golden rule: purchase, refrigerate and prepare the food the same way you would you own.
An alternative to feeding a standard raw diet is to feed a frozen prepared raw food. These diets are nutritionally balanced and easy to serve in pre-portioned measurements. They're convenient because the only preparation required is thawing! It's an easy way to feed the appropriate food without much hassle. Even better: the diets are nutritionally sound, so you don't have to worry about adding additional supplementation to keep your pet healthy.
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Short of letting our dogs and cats eat what they can kill in the wild, raw diets are considered to be as close to biologically natural as we can feed. Raw foods are full of enzymes, vitamins, minerals and fatty acids that are often eliminated during the cooking process kibble and canned food undergoes. Because feeding a raw diet shields our pets from the unnecessary additives commonly found in most commercial pet foods. It is very common for medical ailments like allergies or irritable bowel disease to clear up without much medical intervention when a dog or cat switches to a raw food diet.