DIET & NUTRITION
I'm a firm believer in the RAW diet combined with HIGH GRADE Supplements. Why do I believe in this method of feeding so strongly? The simple answer to that question is, in a nutshell "RESULTS!" I have watched my dogs transform into healthier and happier dogs. I want to share what I've learned and practiced over the past couple of years. It's my hope that your dogs health is as important to you as my dogs health is too me. Soon I will be posting some pictures of the BARF/ TRIPE / ORGAN meat mixture I personally feed my dogs. I have been feeding this homemade mixture for the past year with EXCELLENT results! In my opinion, it is without a doubt the best RAW food out there. If you are interested in buying this BARF mix please send an e-mail to: rae2@kc.rr.com and I'll try to answer your questions. Pricing will be subject to change, depending on the slaughtering fees, shipping and handling, and the availability of this mix. I will soon have the capacity to deal and ship in large bulk. Fresh shipments "NOT FROZEN" might be an option but the standard and preferred method will be frozen. I have no affiliation with BARF WORLD. This mix will always contain the best mix of beef, tripe and organ meats from FRESHLY slaughtered hoofed beef. Additional items you'll need for feeding your dogs a raw diet include, a seperate freezer, and a good quality scale to measure out the appropriate amount of meat for each dog. I personally use a digital scale. I recommend a small refrigerator for thawing your BARF mix. Your wife or husband would probably divorce you if you used the family refridgerator to store and thaw the BARF mix. Me, I don't use my refridgerator so it belongs to my doggies. EDIT HERE: When not feeding a 100% RAW diet, I feed my dogs a very HIGH QUALITY commercial kibble. The few tried and true kibbles I've chosen to feed my dogs "on occassion" are listed below. They have maintained my dogs health and appearance almost as well as their RAW diet. Dog food manufacturers are being forced to produce quality kibbles because of the growing number of BARFER's in the world today. If the BARF diet is not in your dogs future, then you should at least upgrade the quality of kibble you are feeding your dog. I have personally fed everything from what I term as a "MODIFIED RAW" diet to feeding a 100% RAW diet. My only reasons for feeding a modified raw diet was because it's too time consuming for a multidog household such as mine. This is where the quality kibble comes into play. Quality kibble in the morning and then 100% raw in the evening when I have more time. Don't believe anyone who tells you that feeding a raw diet is "not" time consuming, because it is. I happen to be feeding four German Shepherds so it's naturally a very time consuming process for me. Anyone who has a multidog household will find this to be true. If you only have one or two dogs then there should be no problem with feeding a raw diet both morning and evening. There are a multitude of places on the internet to learn how to feed BARF. Also I am listing a link for convience to some books that will help get you started in the right direction. Here is that link: http://dogbooks.blogspot.com/ Some of the book's I've listed can be found at your local library, others were found on E-Bay. I have a ton of books that are on my wish list. I will list them in the near future. I hope to one day produce one of the most indepth video's/dvd's on this subject. There are a few out there but they do not go into as much detail as I believe they should. You can check out the kibbles I reccomend by clicking on this link: http://www.csftdls.blogspot.com. EDIT HERE: Tripe is the stomach of ruminating animals. These animals (i.e. cattle, buffalo, sheep, deer, goats, antelope, etc.) are classified as being four-footed, hooved, cud chewing mammals with a stomach that consists of four chambers. The four chambers of such a stomach are known as the rumen, reticulum, omasum and the abomasum. The food the animal eats (i.e. grass, hay) is swallowed unchewed and passes into the rumen and reticulum where it is then regurgitated, chewed and mixed with saliva. It is again swallowed and then passed through the reticulum and omasum into the abomasum, where it is then further broken down by the gastric juices, amino acids and other digestive enzymes. Yummy!
So how can something so disgusting, be so good? These same gastric juices and enzymes not only aid the animal in digestion, but also aid the dog in digesting and efficiently utilizing his food. The amino acids are necessary for muscular development and, the other gastric juices, I believe, are the best cleaner for their teeth!
In an analysis of a sample of green tripe by a Woodson-Tenant Lab in Atlanta, Georgia, it was discovered that the calcium:phosphorous ratio is 1:1, the overall pH is on the acidic side which is better for digestion, protein is 15.1, fat 11.7 and it contained the essential fatty acids, Linoleic and Linolenic, in their recommended proportions. Also discovered, was the presence of Lactic Acid Bacteria. Lactic Acid Bacteria, also known as Lactobacillus Acidophilus, is the good intestinal bacteria. It is the main ingredient in probiotics.
Finally, because of it’s rubbery texture, serving it in large chunks also aids the canine in strengthening it’s jaw muscles and has an added benefit as a form of canine dental floss. EDIT HERE: A sample of green tripe was analyzed by Woodson-Tenent Laboratories, Inc. in Gainesville, Georgia. The results for sample# G97-16346 are as follows: Moisture 71.37% Crude Fat 11.70% Protein 15.82% Ash 1.23% Phosphorous 0.14% Calcium 0.12% Calories 756.35 cal/lb. pH 6.12 Lactic Acid Bacteria 12,000 CFU/G Linoleic Acid (EFA) 2.72% Linolenic Acid (EFA) 0.37% EDIT HERE: Dogs were in existence long before the creation of kibble. So how could they have possibly survived? In the wild, a dog will catch it's food and devour nearly all of it...the flesh(good source of protein), fat (a good source of energy), bone (good source of calcium), muscle and organ meats, and the stomach with its contents (a good source of enzymes, minerals and pre-digested plant material consisting of herbs and grasses).
Whether you wish to admit it or not, dogs, both domesticated and wild, are members of the carnivore family. Anatomically, they are built for it. No one describes this more eloquently than Juliette de Bairacli Levy in her book, The Complete Herbal Book for the Dog A Handbook of Natural Care and Rearing:"...the dog is a meat eater, from the teeth fashioned for tearing and crushing, the powerful jawbones and muscles, the small, very muscular stomach, the short intestines (to avoid putrefaction of flesh foods), and above all, the very powerful digestive juices peculiar to the carnivorous animals - digestive juices that can dissolve even lumps of bone. In health, the dog's juices, both of mouth and stomach, are strongly antiseptic, and thus "high" meat and even flesh from diseased animals - food which would kill a human being in a day - can be eaten without harmful effects." Ms. Levy's philosophy of raising dogs is called Natural Rearing and it means just what it says - raising the canine in such a way as to reproduce the way they would exist in their natural state. Natural rearing diets, such as NR (Natural Rearing) or BARF (Bones And Raw Food), are based on fresh foods such as raw meats, raw bones, raw vegetables and herbs. Because dogs in the wild would not eat every day, one day of fasting (only for adult dogs) per week is also recommended. This allows the animal to cleanse it's body of toxins. Cooking breaks down many of the proteins and amino acids in raw meat, thus destroying much of it's nutritional value. The canine being not only a hunter, but a scavenger as well, will be able to exist on a diet of cooked food, but it will not be in optimal health. I guess a similar comparison would be to place a human being on a strict diet of only MacDonalds hamburgers and fries for the rest of his/her life! Raising your dog on poor diets will eventually have its effect - disease, immune deficiencies, short life span, high vet bills, the list is endless. Thanks to the works of Juliette de Bairacli Levy, Dr. Ian Billinghurst, Wendy Volhard and Dr. Kerry Brown, a step in the right direction (back to nature) has been taken. Their books have been and invaluable source of information for all dog owners. REFERENCES: The Complete Herbal Book for the Dog, Juliette de Bairacli Levy Give Your Dog A Bone, Dr. Ian Billinghurst The Hollistic Guide For A Healthy Dog, Wendy Volhard & Kerry Brown, DVM Additional References: Green Tripe Dot Com.
So how can something so disgusting, be so good? These same gastric juices and enzymes not only aid the animal in digestion, but also aid the dog in digesting and efficiently utilizing his food. The amino acids are necessary for muscular development and, the other gastric juices, I believe, are the best cleaner for their teeth!
In an analysis of a sample of green tripe by a Woodson-Tenant Lab in Atlanta, Georgia, it was discovered that the calcium:phosphorous ratio is 1:1, the overall pH is on the acidic side which is better for digestion, protein is 15.1, fat 11.7 and it contained the essential fatty acids, Linoleic and Linolenic, in their recommended proportions. Also discovered, was the presence of Lactic Acid Bacteria. Lactic Acid Bacteria, also known as Lactobacillus Acidophilus, is the good intestinal bacteria. It is the main ingredient in probiotics.
Finally, because of it’s rubbery texture, serving it in large chunks also aids the canine in strengthening it’s jaw muscles and has an added benefit as a form of canine dental floss. EDIT HERE: A sample of green tripe was analyzed by Woodson-Tenent Laboratories, Inc. in Gainesville, Georgia. The results for sample# G97-16346 are as follows: Moisture 71.37% Crude Fat 11.70% Protein 15.82% Ash 1.23% Phosphorous 0.14% Calcium 0.12% Calories 756.35 cal/lb. pH 6.12 Lactic Acid Bacteria 12,000 CFU/G Linoleic Acid (EFA) 2.72% Linolenic Acid (EFA) 0.37% EDIT HERE: Dogs were in existence long before the creation of kibble. So how could they have possibly survived? In the wild, a dog will catch it's food and devour nearly all of it...the flesh(good source of protein), fat (a good source of energy), bone (good source of calcium), muscle and organ meats, and the stomach with its contents (a good source of enzymes, minerals and pre-digested plant material consisting of herbs and grasses).
Whether you wish to admit it or not, dogs, both domesticated and wild, are members of the carnivore family. Anatomically, they are built for it. No one describes this more eloquently than Juliette de Bairacli Levy in her book, The Complete Herbal Book for the Dog A Handbook of Natural Care and Rearing:"...the dog is a meat eater, from the teeth fashioned for tearing and crushing, the powerful jawbones and muscles, the small, very muscular stomach, the short intestines (to avoid putrefaction of flesh foods), and above all, the very powerful digestive juices peculiar to the carnivorous animals - digestive juices that can dissolve even lumps of bone. In health, the dog's juices, both of mouth and stomach, are strongly antiseptic, and thus "high" meat and even flesh from diseased animals - food which would kill a human being in a day - can be eaten without harmful effects." Ms. Levy's philosophy of raising dogs is called Natural Rearing and it means just what it says - raising the canine in such a way as to reproduce the way they would exist in their natural state. Natural rearing diets, such as NR (Natural Rearing) or BARF (Bones And Raw Food), are based on fresh foods such as raw meats, raw bones, raw vegetables and herbs. Because dogs in the wild would not eat every day, one day of fasting (only for adult dogs) per week is also recommended. This allows the animal to cleanse it's body of toxins. Cooking breaks down many of the proteins and amino acids in raw meat, thus destroying much of it's nutritional value. The canine being not only a hunter, but a scavenger as well, will be able to exist on a diet of cooked food, but it will not be in optimal health. I guess a similar comparison would be to place a human being on a strict diet of only MacDonalds hamburgers and fries for the rest of his/her life! Raising your dog on poor diets will eventually have its effect - disease, immune deficiencies, short life span, high vet bills, the list is endless. Thanks to the works of Juliette de Bairacli Levy, Dr. Ian Billinghurst, Wendy Volhard and Dr. Kerry Brown, a step in the right direction (back to nature) has been taken. Their books have been and invaluable source of information for all dog owners. REFERENCES: The Complete Herbal Book for the Dog, Juliette de Bairacli Levy Give Your Dog A Bone, Dr. Ian Billinghurst The Hollistic Guide For A Healthy Dog, Wendy Volhard & Kerry Brown, DVM Additional References: Green Tripe Dot Com.
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