On the WalMart website, it says “Ol’Roy – Complete Nutrition Dog Food, 100% Satisfaction – Trusted Brand – Quality Guaranteed. Ol’ Roy Is Committed to Providing Your Dog With The Highest Quality Nutrition Possible.” Unbelievable!

One of the worst foods you can buy for your dog.

Ol’ Roy was one of the brands of pet food that were implicated in the huge 2007 Melamine recall in which cats and dogs were sickened and died from being poisoned by contaminants in vegetable proteins imported into the United States from China and used as ingredients in pet food.

Ol’ Roy was also found to contain the lethal drug pentobarbital which is used to euthanize cats and dogs. This is very problematic because pentobarbital can withstand the heat from rendering! This also means that there may be euthanized cats and dogs in Ol’ Roy along with the disease (cancer, tumors, etc.) the animal died from!

Main ingredients: Ground yellow corn, meat and bone meal, soybean meal, chicken by-product meal, wheat middlings, animal fat [preserved with BHA and citric acid], natural flavor, brewers rice, salt, calcium carbonate, potassium chloride, choline chloride, color added [red #40, yellow #5, blue #2], menadione sodium bisulfite complex [source of vitamin K activity].

Ingredients in RED all appear in the list “INGREDIENTS TO AVOID AT ALL COSTS IN PET FOOD”. You can see the list here and view the definitions of these ingredients here.

Like children, our pets rely on us as their guardians, to make safe and healthy choices for them. If your pet is currently eating unhealthy treats and living on a “junk food” and potentially dangerous grocery store or veterinarian brand diet, let BCDN help you find a better choice!

Contact BCDN or Roger Biduk here.

While I’ve come across large numbers of (almost all) veterinarians that make lots and lots and lots of money selling pet foods at their clinics that will never make a sick animal healthy but will make a healthy animal sick because these foods don’t come close to resembling what a carnivore (dog) and obligate carnivore (cat) would eat in the wild, another huge, huge, huge, huge money-maker that’s out of control in the veterinarian profession (for both vets and pharmaceutical companies) is vaccinations.

I’ve actually had a call (as many of you may have) from a veterinarian’s office telling me that it’s time for my pet’s “annual shots” (this for a cat that passed away two years before!).

Many of you, as responsible pet parents have had a good feeling leaving the veterinarian's office thinking your vet is looking out for the best interest of your animal companions, and the $200 of your hard-earned money you just plunked down on having Fluffy and Fido vaccinated will protect them from a host of diseases. You'll be rethinking that after reading on!

Listen to the experts on the subject of pet vaccinations:

The Big Picture

 "Routine vaccinations are probably the worst thing we can do for our animals. They cause all types of illnesses..." Dr. Christina Chambreau, DVM, 'Science Behind Vaccine Damage' by Catherine O'Driscoll, 2/24/09

"I think that vaccinations are the leading killers of dogs and cats in America today." Dr. Mike Kohn, DVM 'Science Behind Vaccine Damage' by Catherine O'Driscoll, 2/24/09

"For some readers the very idea that vaccines are anything but wonderful and life-saving may come as a surprise, and it's not a very pleasant one." Dr. Richard H. Pitcairn, D.V.M., Ph.D

"From one's experience in the medical field you can put one and one together and realize that when we do see ill animals, those illnesses often occur right after vaccination." Dr. Michael Goldberg, DVM, 'Vets Say Shots May be Deadly' Nicholas Read, Vancouver Sun

"The CVMA recognizes that vaccination protocols based on label recommendations are...largely unsupported by controlled scientific studies for duration of immunity or protections from disease. As such, the protocols are only guidelines for use." Statement issued by the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association on vaccine protocols.

"A practice that was started many years ago and that lacks scientific validity or verification is annual revaccination. Almost without exception there is no immunologic requirement for annual revaccination. Immunity to viruses persists for years or for the life of the animal. The practice of annual vaccination in our opinion should be considered of questionable efficacy..." Current Veterinary Therapy XI, a 1992 conventional veterinary textbook, in a section on dog and cat vaccinations written by Ron Schulz, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison and Tom Phillips, DVM, Scripps Institute.

"Veterinarians are charging customers $36 million a year for vaccinations that are not necessary. Not only are these vaccines unnecessary, they're causing harm to pets." Dr. Bob Rogers, DVM

"You may be a party to a potential class action lawsuit arising from the misrepresentation of the need for vaccinations for your pets." Dr. Bob Rogers, DVM. See it here.

"Consider this… One dose of rabies vaccine costs the vet about 61 cents. The client is typically charged between $15 and $38, plus a $35 office visit. The markup on the vaccine alone is 2,400 percent to 6,200 percent—a markup equivalent to charging $217 for a loaf of bread. According to one estimate, removing the one-year rabies vaccination and consequential office visit for dogs alone would decrease the average small vet’s income from $87,000 to $25,000—and this doesn’t include cats or other vaccinations." Read this and other great information on pet vaccinations here.

According to James Schwartz, author of Trust Me, I’m Not a Veterinarian, 63 percent of canine and 70 percent of feline vet office visits are for vaccinations. Clearly, radically changing the vaccine schedule for dogs and cats would result in a huge economic loss for any veterinary practice that is built around shots. And chances are the vaccines you are paying so much for are creating even more income for vets, because the adverse reactions and other medical issues caused by the vaccines keep Fluffy coming back often! Read this and other great information on pet vaccinations here.

Vaccines Schedules...Where's the Science?

 "...that protocol has been totally arbitrary. It’s not based on the duration of immunity studies. The public and veterinarians have become oversold on the vaccine as a cure-all." Dr. Dennis Macy, vaccine specialist at Colorado State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

"Annual revaccination provides no benefit and may increase the risk for adverse reactions. The percentage of vaccinated animals (those vaccinated only as puppies) protected from clinical disease after challenge with canine distemper virus, canine parvovirus and canine adenovirus in the study was greater than 95%." Dr. Ronald Schultz is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the School of Veterinary Medicine, UW-Madison.

"Dr. Jean Dodds, DVM a veterinary hematologist and immunologist in greater Los Angeles says annual vaccines began to be prescribed in the 1950's...Back then, she says, drug companies got together with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and decided without any scientific test to support their position that vaccines should be administered once a year. 'When the public found out, they were horrified' she said. 'That this was never based on any scientific fact'." 'Vets Say Shots May be Deadly' Nicholas Read, Vancouver Sun

"According to the landmark 1992 study by veterinarians, Dr. Tom Philips and Dr. Ronald Schultz, the practice of giving animals vaccines lacks any scientific validity whatsoever. 'Almost without exception, there's no immunological requirement for annual re-vaccination' they said in their study entitled Canine and Feline Vaccines." 'Vets Say Shots May be Deadly' Nicholas Read, Vancouver Sun

"Rob Ashburner, a former president of The BC Veterinary Medical Association is more blunt, 'There is no hard scientific evidence to say if vaccines should be given every year or three years or five years or once in a lifetime (or at all?)... no one knows and it's not in the interest of drug companies who make billions manufacturing pet vaccines to find out." Vets Say Shots May be Deadly' Nicholas Read, Vancouver Sun

"I believe that before we continue to inject foreign substances year after year into our pets which I believe can cause them harm, that we should first make sure they absolutely need it. If they don't, why do it?" Dr. Michael Goldberg, DVM, 'Vets Say Shots May be Deadly' Nicholas Read, Vancouver Sun

"If 25% of my business were vaccinations, I would be potentially reluctant to decrease that and only vaccinate every few years." Dr. Michael Goldberg, DVM

"In fact, the only reason they (vaccinations) continue to be recommended annually is that that is how long drug manufacturers guarantee their efficacy. They should last longer, but no one knows, and its not in the interest of drug companies, who make billions manufacturing pet vaccines to find out. Dr. Robert Ashburner, former President of the BC Veterinary Medical Association and former president of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association.

"We should not allow politics and tradition or greed to enter the decision (on frequency of vaccination). Changing vaccination schedules doesn't have to mean less profit, but that you have more income from some clients and less from others. Veterinarians and the industry need to have guts to be honest with ourselves and assess the risk and not be trapped in tradition." Dr. Dennis Macy in "Are We Vaccinating Too Much?" AVMA Journal, 1995

"Routine vaccinations are probably the worst thing that we do for our animals. They cause all types of illnesses but not directly to where we would relate them definitely to be caused by the vaccine. Repeating vaccinations on a yearly basis undermines the whole energetic well-being of our animals. Animals do not seem to be decimated by one or two vaccines when they are young and veterinary immunologists tell us that viral vaccines need only be given once or twice in an animal's life. First, there is no need for annual vaccinations and, second, they definitely cause chronic disease. As a homeopath, it is almost impossible to cure an animal without first addressing the problems that vaccines have caused to the animal, no matter what the species." Dr. Christina Chambreau, DVM

Roger, if you want to add: "I have seen many chronic illnesses in dogs and cats following vaccine use. The chief problem is the vaccination routinely of those not really healthy to begin with. They do not respond well and become even more out of balance as a result. If the animal is healthy to start with and mature enough to respond appropriately, then one vaccination is sufficient for life immunity in most instances. It is far better to vaccinate for one thing at a time than combined, multiple diseases in one injection that are very unnatural and confuse the immune system." Best to you, Dr. Richard Pitcairn, DVM, PhD

Vaccine Induced Disease in Cats and Dogs

"Having been trained conventionally, I initially supported vaccinations, but my observations have gradually shown me that they create much more illness than they prevent. I recommend avoiding vaccination in almost all circumstances, as I believe it mainly creates illness rather than preventing illness." Dr. Don Hamilton, DVM, a holistic veterinarian who has practiced for over 30 years, writes in Homeopathic Care for Dogs & Cats

"The first thing that must change with routine vaccinations is the myth that vaccines are not harmful. Veterinarians and animal guardians have to come to realize that they are not protecting animals from disease by annual vaccinations, but in fact, are destroying the health and immune systems of these same animals they love and care for. Homeopathic veterinarians and other holistic practitioners have maintained for some time that vaccinations do more harm than they provide benefits. Vaccinations represent a major assault on the body's immune system.... Vaccine induced chronic diseases range from life-threatening conditions such as auto-immune crises to conditions destroying the quality of life of an animal as in chronic skin allergies." Dr. Charles E Loops, DVM

"Our ongoing studies of dogs show that following routine vaccination, there is a significant level of antibodies dogs produce against their own tissues...Some of these antibodies have been shown to target the thyroid gland, the connective tissue such as that found in the valves of the heart, red blood cells, DNA etc." Dr. Larry Glickman, VMD, PhD, 'Science Behind Vaccine Damage' by Catherine O'Driscoll, 2/24/09

"The vaccinated but not the non-vaccinated dogs in the Purdue studies developed auto-antibodies to many of their own bio-chemicals including fibronectin, laminin, DNA, albumin, cytochrome C, cardiolipin and collagen." 'Science Behind Vaccine Damage' by Catherine O'Driscoll, 2/24/09

"Introducing foreign material via subcutaneous or intramuscular injection is extremely upsetting... In response to the violation, there have been increased auto-immune diseases, epilepsy, neoplasia, as well as behavioral problems." Dr. Mike Kohn DVM, 'Science Behind Vaccine Damage' by Catherine O'Driscoll, 2/24/09

"Many veterinarians trace the present problems with allergic and immunological diseases to the introduction of MLV vaccines." Dr. Jean Dodds DVM, Veterinary Hematologist and Immunologist

"Immunization with an attenuated virus cannot prevent distemper. The author has treated many dogs which have developed distemper despite two or three injections of the preventative agent... He is of the opinion that fits, chorea, hysteria etc. in dogs have become more frequent since the use of distemper vaccine. Successful prevention will never be achieved by inoculation." Dr. J. E. R. McDonagh, Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, Bacteriologist, 1987

"When the dog owners who took part in the Canine Health Concerns Survey reported that their dogs developed short attention spans, 73.1% of the dogs did so within three months of a vaccine event. The same percentage of dogs were diagnosed with epilepsy not within three months of a shot but usually within days." 'Science Behind Vaccine Damage' by Catherine O'Driscoll, 2/24/09

"... Canine Health Concerns 1997 study of 4,000 dogs showed a higher number of dogs developing mobility problems shortly after they were vaccinated." 'Science Behind Vaccine Damage' by Catherine O'Driscoll, 2/24/09

"In August 2003, the Journal of Veterinary Medicine carried an Italian study which showed that dogs also develop vaccine induced cancers at their injection sites." Dr. Charles E. Loop DVM

"The American Veterinary Medical Association Feline Sarcoma Task Force initiated several studies to find out why 160,000 cats each year in the U.S.A. developed terminal cancer at their vaccine injection sites. The fact that cats can get vaccine induced cancer is acknowledged by veterinary bodies around the world...What do you imagine was the advice of the AVMA Task Force... 'Carry on vaccinating' ... In America to mitigate the problem, they're vaccinating cats in the tail or leg so that they can amputate when cancer appears... Great advice if it's not your cat...". 'Science Behind Vaccine Damage' by Catherine O'Driscoll, 2/24/09

"Homeopathic veterinarians and other holistic practioners have maintained for some time that vaccinations do more harm than they provide benefits." Dr. Charles E. Loops DVM

"You take healthy animals and often very quickly after you vaccinate, you can see simple things like itching of the skin or excessive licking of the paws, sometimes even with no eruptions and licking of the air. We see a lot of epilepsy/seizure, often after a rabies vaccination. Or dogs or cats can become aggressive for several days. Frequently, you'll see urinary tract infections in cats, often within three months after their [annual] vaccination. If you step back, open your mind and heart, you'll start to see patterns of illness post-vaccination." Dr. Dee Blanco, D.V.M

"In a general and frightening context, I see the overall health and longevity of animals deteriorating. The bodies of most animals have a tremendous capacity to detoxify poisons, but they do have a limit. I think we often exceed that limit and overwhelm the body's immune system function with toxins from vaccines. The most common problems I see that are directly related to vaccines on a day to day basis are ear or skin conditions, such as chronic discharges and itching. I also see behavior problems such as fearfulness or aggression. Often guardians will report that these begin shortly after vaccination and are exacerbated with every vaccine." Dr. Pat Bradley, DVM

GREAT ARTICLES ON THE DANGERS OF PET VACCINATIONS

Veterinary Vaccines are Big Money for Many Vets - and Even Bigger Money for Big Pharma

The Horrific Results of Allowing the Unnecessary Vaccinations of Animal Companions to Continue.

Health Hazard of Routine Vaccinations: Placing Our Animals at Risk

Dog Vaccinations: Do They Prevent Disease or Cause It?

Vaccine Killed Indoor Cat

Sick of Drugging Your Pet?

Cancer in Our pet population: Why is it on the Rise?

Dr. Andrew Jones, DVM, Answers to Some very Common Vaccine Questions

 Like children, our pets rely on us as their guardians, to make safe and healthy choices for them. If your pet is currently eating unhealthy treats and living on a “junk food” and potentially dangerous grocery store or veterinarian brand diet, let BCDN help you find a better choice!

 Contact BCDN or Roger Biduk here.

Elizabeth Hodgkins, DVM, does not mince words about the connection between grains in cat food and feline diabetes. On her fabulous web site she states, “Feline diabetes is not the natural fate of hundreds of thousands of pet cats world-wide. It is, rather, a human-created disease that is reaching epidemic proportions because of the highly artificial foods that we have been feeding our feline companions for the past few decades. Without the constant feeding of highly processed, high carbohydrate dry foods better suited to cattle than cats, adult-onset feline diabetes would be a rare disease, if it occurred at all.”

A highly processed, grain-based diet fed to an animal designed to thrive on a meat-based, fresh food diet is very likely to produce symptoms of ill health over time. Diets to address disease most frequently deal with the symptoms that are the result of a lifetime of inappropriate food, not the true cause of their symptoms.

The optimum diet for a dog or a cat should closely resemble their natural diet.
A diet balanced heavily toward grain promotes insulin production and the production of inflammatory chemicals. Over-production of insulin makes it hard for the body to maintain its correct weight, and can lead to diabetes and other problems. An overabundance of inflammatory chemicals means more aches and pains.

What do farmers feed hogs and cattle to fatten them up for market? Carbohydrates!!! Grains and Corn. That is what most pet food consists of. Carbs just make you hungry because they all turn to sugar in our systems (and also in dogs and cats).

 You’ve probably heard some veterinarian, pet food manufacturer or someone in conversation say that grains (rice, barley, oats, etc.) are very good ingredients in cat and dog foods, are easy to digest and will give your cats and dogs “energy & vitality”. I certainly have.

You also may have heard from those same sources that dogs are omnivores and not carnivores.

You’ll know different after reading on!

In the wild, the diet of a canine/feline consists of only meat. As pets, dogs may eat foods that contain some vegetables (cats should not) that are given to them by humans but not nearly enough to classify them as omnivores, and grains definitely have never been, are not now nor will they ever, ever be a part of a dog or cat`s natural diet. Humans are much more “omnivorous” than dogs will ever be.

Because cats are obligate carnivores, they shouldn’t eat anything but meat; no fruits, no vegetables and absolutely never, ever any grains!

Since the beginning of time, carnivores have eaten only meat.

You MUST ALWAYS keep in mind that to stay healthy and to live a long life (along with staying out of the vet’s office), carnivores (dogs) and obligate carnivores (cats) need to eat meat, meat and more meat!

Cats are members of the family “felidae”, the strictest carnivores (obligate carnivores) of the sixteen mammal families in the order Carnivora.

The dog family is a group of intelligent, carnivorous mammals that includes domestic dogs and their relatives which include coyotes, wolves, foxes, jackals, dholes, raccoon dogs and bush dogs.

They’re known scientifically as Canidae, are definitely carnivores and its members are commonly called canids and are members of the order Carnivora.

Herbivores like goats, sheep, cows and horses eat grains (but only in captivity).

However, horses, cows, pigs, goats and rabbits only eat grains when they are fed to them by humans, usually to fatten them up. Normally, they would eat grasses and leaves from pastures and other vegetables. There are NO mammals who eat a significant amount of grain as part of their natural diet, including humans.

GRAINS NOT GREAT FOR HUMANS EITHER

That includes humans up until the last ten thousand years or so (the advent of agriculture) and that quantity was still much, much lower than it was after the industrial revolution. It then grew progressively worse as low fat diets that suggested more grains were promoted by U.S. and other governments, right in line with “the obesity crisis” and Type II Diabetes!

According to a growing number of experts including Dr. Loren Cordain, a professor at Colorado State University and an expert on Paleolithic lifestyles, humans are NOT designed to eat grains, and doing so may actually be damaging to your gut. Dr. Cordain explains: “There’s no human requirement for grains. That’s the problem with the USDA recommendations. They think we’re hardwired as a species to eat grains. You can get by just fine and meet every single nutrient requirement that humans have without eating grains. And grains are absolutely poor sources of vitamins and minerals compared to fruits, vegetables, meat and fish.” You can read more on this here.

THE ANATOMY OF EATING

Carnivore means ‘meat eater’ (Latin carne meaning ‘flesh’ and vorare meaning ‘to devour’) and classifies animals whose diets consist mainly of meat – such as dogs and cats. 

As a faithful companion to humans for some 10,000 years, the trend to humanize our companion dogs comes as no surprise. Yet despite his long and close association with humans, the dog remains closest genetically to the Gray wolf, with whom he shares 99.8% of his mitochondrial DNA. The close genetic relationship between dog and wolf led the Smithsonian Institution to reclassify the dog from its previous separate species designation of Canis familiaris to Canis lupus familiaris.

In other words, the Timber wolf, the Tundra wolf and our beloved companion dog all fall under the genetic umbrella of the Gray wolf, Canis lupus.

Just like wolves, all dogs are evolved as carnivores, with anatomical features that clearly adapt them for meat-based diets. Understanding the anatomical differences between carnivores, omnivores and herbivores will help you understand why dogs are classified as carnivores and cats as obligate carnivores, and what foods best match their anatomy.

In addition, cats and dogs have certain defenses that enable them to handle bacteria in a different way than humans do. A shorter digestive track and a more acidic PH in their stomachs create a very, very powerful mechanism of defense against harmful bacteria.

Here’s three reasons why grains have no business being fed to cats (obligate carnivores) and dogs (carnivores) and are the diet of herbivores (cows, horses, sheep, rabbits and goats) in captivity:

1) SHARP TEETH designed for slicing meat, not for grinding grains or plants!

Going back tens of thousands of years to the sabre-toothed tiger to today, carnivores (dogs) and obligate carnivores (cats) still have elongated teeth designed for tearing and killing prey. Their molars are still triangular with jagged edges that function like serrated-edged blades that give a smooth cutting motion like the blades on a pair of shears. These teeth are totally useless for chewing grains and kibble but perfectly made for biting into, ripping and swallowing meat.

Cats and dogs don’t chew, they chop their food. Like all carnivores going back to the tyrannosaurus rex, the jaws of dogs and cats operate vertically (unlike herbivores and omnivores that grind their food by side to side chewing) to provide a smooth cutting motion, and open widely to swallow large chunks of meat. It’s the perfect combination for cutting meat into smaller chunks and the absolute worst for chewing grains.

Herbivores (cows) on the other hand chew widely from side-to-side. They have broad, flat back teeth that are ideal for grinding grains and plant material into finer particles. That’s why a cow “chews its cud”.

2) The digestive anatomy of carnivores are totally different than those of herbivores and omnivores.

Because meat is easily digested (relative to plants and grains) the small intestines of carnivores are very short. Carnivores have a very short gastrointestinal (GI) tract (around three times their body length), with food often staying in a cat for only five to seven hours and nine to eleven hours in a dog. So it’s very, very important to give them a high protein, calorie-dense diet because they absorb the nutrients so fast. High fiber, carbohydrate laden foods with grains ignore this fact, providing an unnatural burden on the GI tract that results in excessive system bulk and reduced nutrient absorption.

What’s more, carnivores exhibit a much higher concentration of stomach acid which allows for faster digestion of animal protein. The stronger acid kills the disease-causing bacteria abundant in decaying meat. A high concentration of stomach acid helps quickly break down proteins (carnivores have a stomach acidity of about pH 1, compared to humans at pH 4 to 5).

In addition to the acid, dogs and cats also naturally produce a tremendous amount of bile. Bile is both anti-parasitic and anti-pathogenic. So if something potentially harmful isn’t entirely neutralized by stomach acid, the bile is a secondary defense. And your pet’s powerful pancreatic enzymes also help break down and digest food.

Dogs and cats are built to handle bacterial loads from food that would cause significant illness in you or me. Your pet’s body is well equipped to deal with heavy doses of familiar and strange bacteria because nature built him to catch, kill and immediately consume his prey.

So the next time you hear some “expert” say raw meat is dangerous to give to your cat or dog, shake your head at their ignorance and quickly walk (run) away from them…..

Herbivores have a gastrointestinal tract that’s unusually long, sometimes exceeding twelve times the animal’s body length. Longer systems like this are needed for consuming a grain and plant-based diet. Cows, for example have three stomachs.

3) Last but not least, herbivores and omnivores have one very powerful digestive weapon that dogs and cats do NOT have…Salivary amylase.

Salivary amylase is a special enzyme that grain and plant-eating animals (and humans) produce in their saliva. Because grains are so hard to digest (contrary to what some “experts” say), it’s a most critical enzyme that catalyses the breakdown of starch into sugars. In the saliva, amylase begins the chemical process of digestion needed to initiate the break down of starchy carbohydrates before they enter the stomach.

Dogs and cats do produce some amylase, but the enzyme is produced much further down the digestive tract (in the small intestine where they use amylase produced in the pancreas) where the food is closer to coming “out“ rather than going “in“).

Without salivary amylase, a carnivore’s (dog’s) and obligate carnivore’s (cat’s) digestion of grains is decidedly more difficult, if not somewhat impossible.

The biochemical/physiological basis for problems directly related to the ingestion of grains relates to blood insulin levels in response to blood sugar levels. The ultimate effects of high carbohydrate diets include swings in blood sugar and insulin, insulin resistance and high blood sugar. This in turn results in pathological alterations in eicosanoid production which in turn leads to obesity, hypertension, fluid retention, musculoskeltal, vascular, renal, hepatic, CNS and cardiac disease, and finally in many instances cancer. That is, the ingestion of grain and other starchy foods (including simple sugars of course) produces or helps in a major way to produce most if not all of the degenerative diseases.

Feline diabetes and CRF (Cronic Renal Failure) are two of the main causes of death in our pets yet they both do NOT exist in the wild……they are caused by humans feeding commercial pet foods containing grains and other ingredients that have never been, are not now and will NEVER, EVER be part of the natural diet of cats and dogs!

So much for those “easy to digest” whole grains in cat and dog foods that you hear about!

Grains have never been, are not now and will never, ever be part of a carnivore’s diet. Put a bowl of raw meat and a bowl of rice, barley or oats side by side and see which one your cat or dog devours.

In many cases, grains are highly indigestible for cats and dogs and they may be highly allergic to them. They may cause severe allergies, lack of energy, weight gain (or loss), dull coats, joint problems, arthritis, poor behavior, seizures and skin problems such as itching and excessive shedding and cause irritable bowel problems along with diarrhea or constipation and eye and ear infections.

Grains may cause preventable diseases such as Feline Diabetes, Chronic Renal Failure (CRF), Urinary Crystals, Cystitis (bladder inflammation), Bladder/Kidney Stones, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Hepatic Lipidosis (Fatty Liver Disease), Diarrhea and more.

Grains are SOLELY used as cheap fillers/ingredients to boost protein levels instead of using high quality, much more expensive, human grade meat.

Grains are carbohydrates and are useless to carnivores. Slick marketing ads and television commercials from pet food companies or from veterinarians who know absolutely nothing about animal nutrition will say that carbohydrates from “whole grains” are easy to digest, are good for your pets and give them “energy & vitality”.

Actually, carbohydrates do only one thing in cats and dogs: They only make your animal companions fat like they do in humans. But unlike humans, carnivores get their energy from proteins and fats, NOT from carbohydrates!

If grains are nutritionally useless to cats and dogs, then why are they in most pet foods? For one and only one reason – the huge profits for pet food companies and the veterinarians and retailers who sell these pet foods, because grains are so cheap compared to more expensive, human-grade meats!

Here’s another very, very important point to consider: If you think the grains and rice in pet foods are of the human-grade kind like “Uncle Ben’s”, think again! The feed values of these grains are similar to corn and are grown primarily as a feed grain for livestock, not for dogs and cats. Inexpensive feed-grade grains in pet foods can include moldy grain or fungus which has caused death.

BARF (BIOLOGICALLY APPROPRIATE RAW FOOD) WORLD COMMENTS ON THE QUESTION OF GRAINS

It would now appear that the apparently innocuous starch, widely regarded as a supremely safe and cheap source of energy, is not the sweet innocent food ingredient it appears to be! It is the emerging information on the role of starch in producing poor health which has for me, put the last nail in the coffin holding the grain. Our dogs, like ourselves should only eat those foods on which they evolved if they are to gain and maintain maximum health.

The biochemical/physiological basis for problems directly related to the ingestion of grains relates to blood insulin levels in response to blood sugar levels. The ultimate effects of high carbohydrate diets include swings in blood sugar and insulin, insulin resistance and high blood sugar.

This in turn results in pathological alterations in eicosanoid production which in turn leads to obesity, hypertension, fluid retention, musculoskeltal, vascular, renal, hepatic, CNS and cardiac disease, and finally in many instances cancer. That is, the ingestion of grain and other starchy foods (including simple sugars of course) produces or helps in a major way to produce most if not all of the degenerative diseases.

There are other factors which are involved, particularly when it comes to feeding commercial pet food, including a lack of protective factors, abysmally poor protein quality, the presence of toxins in abundance, and the almost complete absence of healthy fats.

In an evolutionary sense, a wild dog’s diet contain almost no grains. They never eat cooked grain. In eating the intestinal contents of their prey they will eat some grain which is usually immature and green. Most certainly they do not eat a totally grain based diet like the modern dog, subjected to a lifetime of dried dog food. Even if their prey had been eating mature seed heads, by the time the grain is consumed, it has been ground to a paste and soaked in the juices of the herbivores intestines. A totally different product to the masses of cooked and processed grains fed to dogs today. See these comments and more on the BARF diet here.

WHAT THE EXPERTS HAVE TO SAY

Dr. Joe Demers, D.V.M – “A reason for overweight pets is what we feed our pet friends. Commercial pet food is anywhere between 45 percent to 65 percent carbohydrates (grains). Grains are the least expensive part of pet food and can fill the animal quickly. Dogs and cats are more carnivores than we humans are, and we are feeding them almost as much grain (or more) than we humans eat. I feel that this high-carbohydrate commercial pet food is the worst food we can feed our pet friends. Our pet friends need fresh meats, not dehydrated meat by-products.” You can read Dr. Demers’ comments and get more great info on cat and dog nutrition here.

Dr. T.J. Dunn D.V.M. – “The biggest and most common misconception of all…..the promotion of some low priced, grain-based foods as being a “Complete and Balanced” diet for dogs and cats!  Having done physical exams on tens of thousands of dogs and cats and learning from their owners what these pets are being fed has taught me that dogs and cats look, feel, and perform better if they are fed a meat-based diet rather than if fed a corn, wheat, soy or rice-based diet.” You can read Dr. Dunn’s comments and get more great info on cat and dog nutrition here.

Dr. Russell Swift, DVM says “they are NOT part of the natural diet of wild dogs and cats. In the true natural setting, grains hardly exist at all. Why have grains become so “ingrained” in pet feeding? To the best of my knowledge, grains were mainly introduced by the pet food industry. The high carbohydrate content provides CHEAP calories.” You can read Dr. Swift’s comments and get more great info on cat and dog nutrition here.

STILL THINK GRAINS ARE GOOD FOR YOUR PET CARNIVORES???

ALWAYS buy grain-free food for your pets and make sure that ALL of the protein in the food is from human-grade MEAT!

Good reading:

Grain-Free Cat Food Reviews

Like children, our pets rely on us as their guardians, to make safe and healthy choices for them. If your pet is currently eating unhealthy treats and living on a “junk food” and potentially dangerous grocery store or veterinarian brand diet, let BCDN help you find a better choice!

Contact BCDN or Roger Biduk here.

Death is the number one commodity in a business where the demand for feed ingredients far exceeds the supply of raw product. But this elaborate system of food production through waste management has evolved into a recycling nightmare. Rendering plants are unavoidably processing toxic waste.

The dead animals (the “raw”) are accompanied by a whole menu of unwanted ingredients. Pesticides enter the rendering process via poisoned livestock, and fish oil laced with bootleg DDT and other organophosphates that have accumulated in the bodies of West Coast mackerel and tuna.

Because animals are frequently shoved into the pit with flea collars still attached, organophosphate-containing insecticides get into the mix as well. The insecticide Dursban arrives in the form of cattle insecticide patches. Pharmaceuticals leak from antibiotics in livestock, and euthanasia drugs given to pets are also included. Heavy metals accumulate from a variety of sources: pet ID tags, surgical pins and needles.

Even plastic winds up going into the pit. Unsold supermarket meats, chicken and fish arrive in styrofoam trays and shrink wrap. No one has time for the tedious chore of unwrapping thousands of rejected meat-packs. More plastic is added to the pits with the arrival of cattle ID tags, plastic insecticide patches and the green plastic bags containing pets from veterinarians.

http://www.outoftheearth.com/petfood.htm

Animal fat, beef and bone meal, animal digest and meat and bone meal are all ingredients found in the very lowest quality pet foods.

According to the FDA, it is probable that those ingredients contains the lethal drug pentobarbital which is used to euthanize cats and dogs. Read more here.

This is very problematic because sodium pentobarbital can withstand the heat from rendering!

This also means that there may be euthanized cats and dogs in those ingredients along with the disease (cancer, tumors, etc.) the animal died from! There is no control over quality or contamination.

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In February 1990, the San Francisco Chronicle carried a macabre two-part story detailing how stray dogs, cats and pound animals are routinely rounded up by meat renderers and ground up into pet food. According to the researcher who brought the information to the Chronicle, the paper buried the story and deleted many of the charges he had documented. A report he worked on for ABC television’s 20-20 was similarly watered down. In exasperation, he sent the story to Earth Island Journal. NEXUS has been asked to withhold the name of the author/researcher, who has been forced to flee San Francisco with his wife and go into hiding as a result of the threats made against his well-being. Ed.]

The rendering plant floor is piled high with “raw product”: thousands of dead dogs and cats; heads and hooves from cattle, sheep, pigs and horses; whole skunks; rats and raccoons all waiting to be processed. In the 90-degree heat, the piles of dead animals seem to have a life of their own as millions of maggots swarm over the carcasses.

Two bandana-masked men begin operating Bobcat mini-dozers, loading the “raw” into a 10-foot- deep stainless-steel pit. They are undocumented workers from Mexico, doing a dirty job. A giant auger-grinder at the bottom of the pit begins to turn. Popping bones and squeezing flesh are sounds from a nightmare you will never forget.

Rendering is the process of cooking raw animal material to remove the moisture and fat. The rendering plant works like a giant kitchen. The cooker, or “chef”, blends the raw product in order to maintain a certain ratio between the carcasses of pets, livestock, poultry waste and supermarket rejects.

Once the mass is cut into small pieces, it is transported to another auger for fine shredding. It is then cooked at 280 degrees for one hour. The continuous batch cooking process goes on non-stop, 24 hours a day, seven days a week as meat is melted away from bones in the hot ‘soup’. During this cooking process, the ‘soup’ produces a fat of yellow grease or tallow that rises to the top and is skimmed off. The cooked meat and bone are sent to a hammermill press, which squeezes out the remaining moisture and pulverizes the product into a gritty powder. Shaker screens sift out excess hair and large bone chips. Once the batch is finished, all that is left is yellow grease, meat and bone meal.

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Rendering has been called “the silent industry”. Each year in the US, 286 rendering plants quietly dispose of more than 12.5 million tons of dead animals, fat and meat wastes. As the public relations watchdog newsletter PR Watch observes, renderers “are thankful that most people remain blissfully unaware of their existence”.

When City Paper reporter Van Smith visited Baltimore’s Valley Proteins rendering plant last summer, he found that the “hoggers” (the large vats used to grind and filter animal tissues prior to deep-fat-frying) held an eclectic mix of body parts ranging from “dead dogs, cats, raccoons, possums, deer, foxes [and] snakes” to a “baby circus elephant” and the remains of Bozeman, a Police Department quarterhorse that “died in the line of duty”.

In an average month, Baltimore’s pound hands over 1,824 dead animals to Valley Proteins. Last year, the plant transformed 150 millions pounds of decaying flesh and kitchen grease into 80 million pounds of commercial meat and bone meal, tallow and yellow grease. Thirty years ago, most of the renderer’s wastes came from small markets and slaughterhouses. Today, thanks to the proliferation of fast-food restaurants, nearly half the raw material is kitchen grease and frying oil.

Recycling dead pets and wildlife into animal food is “a very small part of the business that we don’t like to advertise,” Valley Proteins’ President, J. J. Smith, told City Paper. The plant processes these animals as a “public service, not for profit,” Smith said, since “there is not a lot of protein and fat [on pets]…, just a lot of hair you have to deal with somehow.”

According to City Paper, Valley Proteins “sells inedible animal parts and rendered material to Alpo, Heinz and Ralston-Purina”. Valley Proteins insists that it does not sell “dead pet by-products” to pet food firms since “they are all very sensitive to the recycled pet potential”. Valley Proteins maintains two production lines, one for clean meat and bones and a second line for dead pets and wildlife. However, Van Smith reported, “the protein material is a mix from both production lines. Thus the meat and bone meal made at the plant includes materials from pets and wildlife, and about five per cent of that product goes to dry pet food manufacturers…”

A 1991 USDA report states that “approximately 7.9 billion pounds of meat and bone meal, blood meal and feather meal [were] produced in 1983″. Of that amount, 34 per cent was used in pet food, 34 per cent in poultry feed, 20 per cent in pig food and 10 per cent in beef and dairy cattle feed.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) carried in pig and chicken laden foods may eventually eclipse the threat of “mad cow disease”. The risk of household pet exposure to TSE from contaminated pet food is more than three times greater than the risk for hamburger-eating humans. See this topic here and more info on animal nutrition.

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The most frequently asked question in my practice is, “Which commercial pet food do you recommend?” My standard answer is “None.” I am certain that pet-owners notice changes in their animals after using different batches of the same brand of pet food. Their pets may have diarrhea, increased flatulence, a dull hair coat, intermittent vomiting or prolonged scratching. These are common symptoms associated with commercial pet foods.

In 1981, as Martin Zucker and I wrote How to Have a Healthier Dog, we discovered the full extent of negative effects that commercial pet food has on animals. In February 1990, San Francisco Chronicle staff writer John Eckhouse went even further with an exposé entitled “How Dogs and Cats Get Recycled into Pet Food”.

Eckhouse wrote: “Each year, millions of dead American dogs and cats are processed along with billions of pounds of other animal materials by companies known as renderers. The finished product…tallow and meat meal…serve as raw materials for thousands of items that include cosmetics and pet food.”

Pet food company executives made the usual denials. But federal and state agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration, and medical groups, such as the American Veterinary Medical Association and the California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA), confirm that pets, on a routine basis, are rendered after they die in animal shelters or are disposed of by health authorities and the end product frequently finds its way into pet food.

Government health officials, scientists and pet food executives argue that such open criticism of commercial pet food is unfounded. James Morris, a professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine at Davis, California, has said, “Any products not fit for human consumption are very well sterilized, so nothing can be transmitted to the animal.” Individuals who make such statements know nothing of the meat and rendering business.

For seven years I was a veterinary meat inspector for the US Department of Agriculture and the State of California. I waded through blood, water, pus and fecal material, inhaled the fetid stench from the killing floor and listened to the death cries of slaughtered animals.

Prior to World War II, most slaughterhouses were all-inclusive; that is, livestock was slaughtered and processed in one location. There was a section for smoking meats, a section for processing meats into sausages, and a section for rendering. After World War II, the meat industry became more specialized. A slaughterhouse dressed the carcasses, while a separate facility made the sausages. The rendering of slaughter waste also became a separate specialty, no longer within the jurisdiction of federal meat inspectors and out of the public eye.

To prevent condemned meat from being rerouted and used for human consumption, government regulations require that meat be “denatured” before removal from the slaughterhouse and shipment to rendering facilities. In my time as a veterinary meat inspector, we denatured with carbolic acid (a potentially corrosive disinfectant) and/or creosote (used for wood-preservation or as a disinfectant). Both substances are highly toxic. According to federal meat inspection regulations, fuel oil, kerosene, crude carbolic acid and citronella (an insect repellent made from lemon grass) are all approved denaturing materials.

Condemned livestock carcasses treated with these chemicals can become meat and bone meal for the pet food industry. Because rendering facilities are not government-controlled, any animal carcasses can be rendered, even dogs and cats. As Eileen Layne of the CVMA told the Chronicle, “When you read pet food labels, and it says “meat and bone meal”, that’s what it is: cooked and converted animals, including some dogs and cats.”

Some of these dead pets, those euthanized by veterinarians & already contain pentobarbital before treatment with the denaturing process. According to University of Minnesota researchers, the sodium pentobarbital used to euthanize pets “survives rendering without undergoing degradation”. Fat stabilizers are introduced into the finished rendered product to prevent rancidity. Common chemical stabilizers include BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene), both known to cause liver and kidney dysfunction and ethoxyquin, a suspected carcinogen. Many semi-moist dog foods contain propylene glyco, first cousin to the anti-freeze agent, ethylene glycol, that destroys red blood-cells. Lead frequently shows up in pet foods, even those made from livestock meat and bone meal. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study, titled “Lead in Animal Foods”, found that a nine-pound cat fed on commercial pet food ingests more lead than the amount considered potentially toxic for children.

I have been practicing small-animal medicine for more than 25 years. Every day I see the casualties of pet industry propaganda. But the professors in the teaching institutions of veterinary medicine generally support an industry that has little regard for the quality of health in our companion animals.

One last word of caution: meat and bone meal from sources not fit for human consumption have found their way into poultry feed. This means that animal products rendered under questionable conditions are fed to birds that may wind up on your table. Remember this when you are eating your next piece of chicken or turkey.

(Dr Belfield is a graduate of Tuskegee Institute of Veterinary Medicine and is now in private practice in San Jose, California. Dr Belfield established the first orthomolecular veterinary hospital in the US. He is co-author of The Very Healthy Cat Book and How to Have a Healthier Dog. This article first appeared in Let’s Live Magazine, May 1992.) Read more on this article and on pet nutrition here.

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The pet food industry, a $20 billion-dollar, unregulated operation, feeds on the garbage that otherwise would wind up in landfills or be transformed into fertilizer. The hidden ingredients in a can of commercial pet food may include roadkill and the rendered remains of cats and dogs. The pet food industry claims that its products constitute a “complete and balanced diet” but, in reality, commercial pet food is unfit for human or animal consumption.

“Vegetable protein”, the mainstay of dry dog foods, includes ground yellow corn, wheat shorts and middlings, soybean meal, rice husks, peanut meal and peanut shells (identified as “cellulose” on pet food labels). These often are little more than the sweepings from milling room floors. Stripped of their oil, germ and bran, these “proteins” are deficient in essential fatty acids, fat-soluble vitamins and antioxidants.

“Animal protein” in commercial pet foods can include diseased meat, roadkill, contaminated material from slaughterhouses, fecal matter, rendered cats and dogs and poultry feathers. The major source of animal protein comes from dead-stock removal operations that supply so-called “4-D” animals; dead, diseased, dying or disabled to “receiving plants” for hide, fat and meat removal. The meat (after being doused with charcoal and marked “unfit for human consumption”) may then be sold for pet food.

Rendering plants process decomposing animal carcasses, large roadkill and euthanized dogs and cats into a dry protein product that is sold to the pet food industry. One small plant in Quebec renders 10 tons (22,000 pounds) of dogs and cats per week. The Quebec Ministry of Agriculture states that “the fur is not removed from dogs and cats” and that “dead animals are cooked together with viscera, bones and fat at 115° C (235° F) for 20 minutes”.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is aware of the use of rendered dogs and cats in pet foods, but has stated: “CVM has not acted to specifically prohibit the rendering of pets. However, that is not to say that the practice of using this material in pet food is condoned by the CVM.”

In both the US and Canada, the pet food industry is virtually self-regulated. In the US, the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) sets guidelines and definitions for animal feed, including pet foods. In Canada, the most prominent control is the “Labeling Act”, simply requiring product labels to state the name and address of the manufacturer, the weight of the product and whether it is dog or cat food. The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) and the Pet Food Association of Canada (PFAC) are voluntary organizations that, for the most part, rely on the integrity of the companies they certify to assure that product ingredients do not fall below minimum standards.

The majority, 85 to 90 per cent of the pet food sold in Canada is manufactured by US-based multinationals. Under the terms of the US-Canada Free Trade Agreement, neither the CVMA nor PFAC exercises any control over the ingredients in cans of US pet food.

Pet food industry advertising promotes the idea that, to keep pets healthy, one must feed them commercially formulated pet foods. But such a diet contributes to cancer, skin problems, allergies, hypertension, kidney and liver failure, heart disease and dental problems. One more item should be added to pet food labels: a skull-and-crossbones insignia!

(Ann Martin is an animal rights activist and leading critic of the commercial pet food industry. She lives in London, Ontario, Canada.)

Source: http://www.outoftheearth.com/petfood.htm

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Roger, I looked at your website and you have really compiled a great deal of useful information for people. Well done. Dr. Charles Loops, DVM.

 It was very hard to take this all in. I had to turn off the video about the Iams study in the laboratory. There is a special hell for the people and companies that know what they are doing and still do it to turn a buck. Absolutely disgusting! Ryna, pet parent

Dear Roger: Hello! Yes, you can put a link to our site on your web site. Your site looks very informative and interesting! Best, Jean. Dr. Jean Dobbs, DVM, Veterinary Hematologist and Immunologist.

"It is unfortunate that human greed is the reason for cheap and nasty pet food. As I don’t consider myself to be a cow, I have eliminated grains in my family to a minimum. Most grains deliver empty calories, like white bread etc. The same goes for most rice or pasta types, the goodness has been taken out of it like the kernel and the oils and we eat what is left. Not a very healthy diet for humans either, but a cheap if dangerous alternative, like dog and cat food. It would be a benefit for the pet owner community and their pets if veterinary colleges teach animal nutrition on a matter of fact basis and not on a matter of profit basis. Very informative article." Katie, pet parent. Read the article here.

Roger, if you want to add: "I have seen many chronic illnesses in dogs and cats following vaccine use. The chief problem is the vaccination routinely of those not really healthy to begin with. They do not respond well and become even more out of balance as a result. If the animal is healthy to start with and mature enough to respond appropriately, then one vaccination is sufficient for life immunity in most instances. It is far better to vaccinate for one thing at a time than combined, multiple diseases in one injection that are very unnatural and confuse the immune system." Best to you, Dr. Richard Pitcairn, DVM, PhD

Hi Roger, looks like you made the point to me! Good education for the reader. You can certainly link to my webpage. Sincerely, Dr. Charles Loops, DVM

 I really look forward to feeding them their new food (Wellness)!!!! I really really do!!!!! And thank you for opening my eyes!!!! Ryna, pet parent

Other website proprietors should take this website as a model, very clean with a user-friendly style and design, let alone the content. You’re an expert in this topic! Sandra R., Website Designer

Thanks for all your efforts that you have put in this. Very interesting information. Roger C., pet parent

IT'S TIME TO SEPARATE FACT FROM FICTION ABOUT ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WHAT TO FEED YOUR DOG AND/OR CAT!

YOUR ANIMAL COMPANIONS WILL THANK YOU FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES!

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING…..NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT TO YOUR CAT/DOG THAN THE INGREDIENTS IN THE FOOD THAT YOU FEED HER/HIM…..!

"EVERY TIME A PET TRUSTINGLY EATS ANOTHER BOWL OF HIGH SUGAR PET FOOD, HE/SHE IS BROUGHT THAT MUCH CLOSER TO DIABETES, HYPOGLYCEMIA, OVERWEIGHT, NERVOUSNESS, CATARACTS, ALLERGY AND DEATH!" Dr. R. Geoffrey Broderick, DVM

THE DIET YOU FEED YOUR CAT/DOG DETERMINES THEIR HEALTH AND LIFE EXPECTANCY MORE THAN ANY OTHER CARE! NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER EVER FORGET THIS!!!

THE AVERAGE SIZED DOG AND CAT ONLY LIVES 10-13 YEARS WHEN DOGS COULD REACH TWENTY-FIVE AND CATS ALMOST THIRTY!

UP TO 90% OF ALL DOG DISEASES ARE FOOD RELATED! YOU MAY SPEND OVER TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN VETERINARY FEES FOR FOOD RELATED ILLNESSES OVER THE LIFE OF YOUR DOG OR CAT, YET THIS COULD BE REDUCED TO ALMOST ZERO OVERNIGHT!

THE RESULTS OF A CLINICAL TRIAL SUGGEST THAT 74.7% OF COMMON DISEASES IN DOGS (SOME SYMPTOMS HAD A CURE RATE OF UP TO 94%) AND 63% IN CATS (84% OF CATS SHOWED A HEALING RESPONSE WITHIN 12 MONTHS) CAN BE ELIMINATED WITHOUT MEDICAL INTERVENTION OVER A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR JUST WITH PROPER DIET MODIFICATIONS (REPLACING FOOD THAT DOESN'T RESEMBLE WHATSOEVER WHAT YOUR CAT OR DOG WOULD EAT IN THE WILD WITH ONE THAT DOES)! (You can read about the clinical trial here).

BY THE AGE OF FOUR, UP TO 85% OF CATS AND DOGS HAVE DEVELOPED A POTENTIALLY FATAL DISEASE! THESE ANIMALS WILL DIE OF CANCER, RENAL FAILURE, TUMORS, URINARY PROBLEMS (all found in humans) AND OTHER PREVENTABLE DISEASES. HALF OF ALL DOGS OVER THE AGE OF TEN HAVE CANCER!

ALL THIS CAN CAN BE PREVENTED BY SIMPLY CHANGING WHAT YOUR PET EATS, AND IT'S CHEAPER!

IN THE WILD, THE NATURAL DIET OF A CANINE & FELINE HAS ALWAYS BEEN, STILL IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A RAW VERSION OF THE ADKINS DIET (HIGH PROTEIN, LOW CARBS)!

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