This recipe contains minced whole rabbit, including bone, mirroring the natural, whole -
prey diet of dogs in the wild.
Not exact matches
The ferrets survive on a
diet of mostly prairie
dogs and had nearly gone extinct in the 1970s due to centuries
of habitat loss,
prey declines and plague.
The term «Biologically Appropriate» simply means that the
diet is designed to mimic the natural
diet of wild cats and
dogs — these
diets are rich in animal proteins, formulated with Whole
Prey ratios, and limited in carbohydrates.
The problem with raw meaty bones is not giving weight bearing ones
of larger mammals because they are too hard and the
dogs could break teeth I stick to rabbit and chicken if they get bones in their
diet [we feed a raw
prey model
diet here].
The
prey model people pretty much horrified me (I rescue pets I don't feed them to my
dogs) and I can't find much in the way
of real scientific research on BARF or raw
diets.
With a pledge that all
of their foods are «carefully crafted to mirror the whole -
prey meat - rich,
diet that
dogs &
Red Meat Fish recipe is a highly digestible
diet based on the whole
prey model
of dog's ancestors, but including also excellent nutritional components that are chief for modern age
dogs.
Orijen also swears by a «whole
prey» processing which combines all
of the richly nourishing meats, organs, cartilage, and marrow in authentic ratios that mimic the natural
diet of wild
dogs and cats.
When veggies are broken down first by pureeing to mimic a
prey animal's digestion, for example, they are a good part
of a
dog's raw
diet.
This
diet is simply called Raw Feeding and follows the
prey model
of what wolves and
dogs ate in the wild and advocates a wide variety
of meats, from chicken and beef to pork, venison, rabbit and other game.
Again, according to these companies, in the wild a wolf /
dog would be eating different kinds
of prey and thus getting many different kinds
of amino acids in his
diet.
To argue whether raw food
diets are appropriate for
dogs and cats is moot; they have thrived consuming a variety
of small
prey for thousands
of years!
Green tripe is an important part
of cats» and
dogs» ancestral wild
prey diet.
There is no way
of knowing for sure exactly what constituted the
diet of the ancestors
of the modern, domesticated,
dog and cat, but we can estimate that it consisted
of about 85 to 90 % meat (primarily from whole
prey) along with small amounts
of fish, eggs, scavenged grasses, berries, nuts and other vegetation.
Inspired by a natural
diet of whole
prey animals, ORIJEN features unmatched and unique inclusions
of fresh meats that mirror the evolutionary
diet of dogs and cats — excluding high - glycemic carbohydrates, vegetable proteins and the long lists
of synthetic supplements found in conventional foods.
The Alpha
Prey diet mimics what alpha cats (and alpha dogs) eat in the wild, including the vital organs, where they get the most nutrition, to the meat and bones on the outer portions of the p
Prey diet mimics what alpha cats (and alpha
dogs) eat in the wild, including the vital organs, where they get the most nutrition, to the meat and bones on the outer portions
of the
preyprey.
The percentage
of fruits and vegetables in our Raw Frozen
Diets is meant to mimic what
dogs and cats would eat in the wild (fruits and vegetables would be present in the stomach
of their
prey).
So what happens over the long - term when a
dog is fed an exclusive
diet of naturally - raised, biologically appropriate
prey animals?
Proponents
of the whole
prey model
diet believe
dogs and cats are natural carnivores and do not have any nutritional needs besides what is found in meat, bones, and organs.