UNDERSTANDING 'BARF' RAW FEEDING FOR DOGS
By The Pet Girl
If you don’t already know about the BARF raw feeding model, then the information out there can be somewhat over-whelming, especially if you don’t know where to begin. So let us help you understand the BARF raw food model in simple and easy terms.
What exactly is BARF? Whilst the name sounds somewhat unpleasant, BARF is an acronym for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food. As the name suggests, the BARF raw feeding diet is designed to feed your dog exactly what nature originally intended from an evolutionary stand point of view, by focussing on natural species – specific food.
The BARF diet consists of RAW:
75% meat, bones and offal (organs)
25% fruits, vegetables and supplementation with ingredients like yogurt, eggs, coconut oil, flaxseed oil etc.
Why raw? Let’s imagine dogs in their natural wild state for a minute. Now as much as I’d like to think my Shetland Sheep Dog, Binti could possibly be capable of cooking herself a meal given her often surprising intelligence, obviously a dog in their natural state hunts and catches their prey which is normally eaten immediately. They eat the bones, flesh, organs and intestinal matter of their victim. At no time is the food processed, cooked, mixed with preservatives and fillers, or made into tiny bite size biscuits.
Why does the diet include supplementation? Supplementation is often used to compensate for inherently deficient modern soil conditions and also to optimise gut health, which would normally have been catered for far more effectively in more primal dog diets. The inclusion of supplements assists with the low levels of minerals in soils in which certain foods have been grown and they also assist in providing our dogs with healthy probiotics and essential fatty acids used for digestion.
Providing our dogs with a biologically appropriate raw food diet is providing them with a natural food source free from preservatives, chemicals, fillers artificial colourings and flavourings which in turn promotes optimal health. It’s not a new diet, or a fad, it’s an evolutionary sound diet, which is as closely related, as is sensibly possible, to what dogs have essentially been eating for many thousands of years.
Author: The Pet Girl.
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