Why Feed Raw

Many people have this idea that a “Raw Diet” is new. This is the furthest from the truth. Actually, if one considers that a canine and cat have been evolving for many more millenia than they have been offered kibble or even canned. I’ve never met a dog that knows how to make a fire and cook its own food. Dogs have, in the past 50 years, developed the same diseases that humans are now suffering from. 46% of dogs are dying of cancer, whereas 50 years ago, dogs didn’t have cancer. We at Raw Dogs R Us say – Go back to nature and Go Green!

Here’s a quote from author, Kymythy R. Schultze, a Nurtitionist from San Diego, California, from her 1998 Hay House book, “Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats”:

“Biologists have yet to discover any wild carnivore that cooks its food. A carnivore’s body has been designed to derive its needed nutrients from raw food. Many successful zoos and other captive habitats have discovered that they cannot keep their animals healthy and able to reproduce unless they are fed raw food. Cooking or heat-processing actually changes the molecular structure of food, binding food molecures tighter together. This makes them more difficult to digest and transforms them into ‘foreign’ or unfamiliar food.

“Cooked food takes longer to digest and therefore requires more of the animal’s energy. Heat also destroys enzymes and antioxidents, which are very important for good health. In fact, enzymes are needed for every bio-chemical activity in your dog’s or cat’s body. And, unfortunately, the body has a limited supply of its own enzymes. It is designed to consume enzymes in raw food. When the pancreas is called upon to produce enzymes because the ingested, cooked food has none, the pancreas must enlarge and work harder than it is designed to. When stressed, the pancreas sends white blood cells, or leukocytes, to the digestive system to aid in digestion. When the leukocytes use their enzymatic activity to aid digestion, they are less able to help destroy bacteria and foreign invaders in the body. This impairs the immune system.”

Buy and read this book:

Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats
by Kymythy R. Schultze, C.C.N., A.H.I.