Why Change Dog and Pet Meal Plans | A Naturally Balanced Dog

Why Change To Fresh Food Diet?

Food Is The Most Import Choice You Can Make For Your Pet

Unlike processed dog food, your pets can better absorb and use the nutrients found in a whole food diet. This is because ingredients in a whole food diet don’t undergo extreme cooking processes, which ultimately destroys the nutrients that they offer and opens the door to diseased processes including allergies.

We choose what we think is best for our dogs and for today’s more enlightened pet parent we choose fresh.

Common sense tells us that fresh foods is healthier than processed foods. But we have been conditioned and miss informed by the industry to accept processed food, little brown pieces called kibble, as to be healthy for our dogs.

Address special needs and allergies
Quickly adjust your dog’s diet for different life stages
Control the source of your ingredients
Avoid commercial food recalls
Enjoy better budgeting and bulk buying ability

And making your own raw food is taking a huge step towards better health for your dog. Dogs of all ages from puppies to seniors are healthier on a raw food diet.

Here are just some health benefits.

Improved digestion
Healthier skin and coat
Better dental health
Reduced allergy symptoms
Firmer stools
Weight management

Almost all dogs benefit from raw, but some more than others.

Seniors: fresh is easier for the body to process and less taxing on the kidneys and liver
Picky eaters usually do better on a raw fresh diet
Dogs with allergy
Dogs with digestion issues
Over all feeding raw can reduce the risk of obesity, diabetes and cancer, which are the three major health risk for dogs

NRC / Science-Based Model NRC We believe this is the best and most accurate way to feed dogs. It removes all the guess work out feeding. And is the modal we use to develop Custom Meal Plans.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Personality Type (TCM) Uses a system of classification called the 5 elements. The 5 elements apply to personality, disease predisposition patterns, and dietary considerations. You can read more on the Yin Yang dog. We also can incorporate Yin Yang diet using our Science based model in the development of Custom Meal Plans.

BARF Model (Bones and Raw Food) Barf Diets include, Muscle Meats, bones, organs, fruits, vegetables, and supplements.

Prey Model Raw Feeding is a raw food diet that includes meat, organ meat, and bone. This is also refereed as a 80/10/10 model, 80% muscle meat 10% bone 5% offal 5% liver. Prey Model raw feeders believe that vegetables and fruit aren’t necessary for a dog’s diet. There is no way to nutritionally balance a Prey Model as it lacks antioxidants, essential vitamins and minerals.

Rotational Ratio Diets Some believe that rotating their dogs food will cover all the necessary nutritional value based upon a 70/10/10/10 ratio. This falls similar to a Barf diet and requires years of education and study with no accuracy.

People understand that fresh foods is healthier than processed. But tend to get hung up when you mention feeding it raw.

There are over 180,000 different spices on this earth and only ONE cooks their food.

Health impacts – nutrient dense vs. empty calories

The vitamins and minerals are abundant in whole foods. Dogs also get the benefits that can protect against chronic diseases like cancer and cardiovascular disease. Whole foods are considered “nutrient dense,” meaning they contain a variety of nutrients, while foods that are heavily processed are considered to contain “empty calories.”

Eating a diet mainly composed of heavily processed foods, better known as kibble are empty calories. Kibble can negatively impact our dogs bodies and play a role in the development of obesity, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and certain types of cancer.

Myths about feeding raw food to your dogs was crated by the pet food industry to scare people.

Feeding Raw meat to your dog can give them salmonella.

False. A dogs’ digestive system has a very high Ph acidity level, (1). and salmonella can only survive in higher pH conditions of above 4. Therefore, any harmful bacteria from raw meat is soon killed when ingested by a dog and passed within 4-6 hours as waste.

Dogs are domesticated and have adapted to kibble

Kibbled dog foods have only been around for the last 90 years. Certainly not long enough to make evolutionary changes. before Kibble dogs ate table scraps or caught their own.

Cooked Food is better than raw.

False. Actually cooking food and meat destroys and brakes down the enzymes, essential proteins, vitamins, and fats.

Feeding A Raw Meat Diet Is Time Consuming And Complicated

False. We made it easy, we can provide you with a nutritionally balanced meal and you buy the ingredients while your grocery shopping. Easy Peasy.

Dog Owners Can’t Afford To Feed Raw

If you’re transitioning your dog from a low cost, generic store-bought dog food brand to a raw meat diet, chances are it’s going to cost you more.

However, feeding a raw to your dog may be less costly than you think. Good quality but cheaper cuts of meat, bones and organs don’t have to cost a lot. Check out our resource page.

It’s Dangerous To Give Bones To Your Dog

True and False. Not all bones are suitable for dogs.

Small, raw bones are both edible and digestible. Wild dogs, foxes, and wolves gnaw on raw bones to get calcium and it helps to keep their teeth clean and strong.