PREY MODEL DIET - CANINE

Frequently Asked Questions:

What about the danger of feeding bones?
Raw bones are not a problem because they are flexible. It is cooked bones which can be a problem if ingested because they can become brittle and splinter in the gut. Imagine a dog in the wild cooking a rabbit before he eats it, or taking out all the bones.

Will my dog get salmonella or e-coli poisoning?
Your dog has the same gut that a wolf has, and when fed a raw diet the stomach acid kills off all the inappropriate bacteria. To avoid human contamination simply use routine safe meat handling techniques.

How much do I feed daily?
The general rule of thumb is 2% of body weight or 1# per 25# of body weight per day. I feed my adult dogs once daily and my puppies twice daily. Start with this and adjust based on your individual dogs working needs. It is a rare problem for dogs to gain or lose too much weight on this diet unless they have underlying medical problems which need to be addressed.

What are the benefits to feeding this way?
A raw natural diet is the basis for all health in a carnivore!
Most dogs on this diet:
Slim down to a healthy weight.
Teeth become brilliant white within the first 3 weeks.
Stools no longer smell as strong and there is less waste to pick up (the body is actually using the food).
Skin and hair coats dramatically change.
Energy level and attitude improves.

PREY MODEL DIET - FELINE

Frequently Asked Questions:

What about the danger of feeding bones?
Raw bones are not a problem because they are flexible. It is cooked bones which can be a problem if ingested because they can become brittle and splinter in the gut. Imagine a cat in the wild cooking a mouse before he eats it, or taking out all the bones.

Will my cat get salmonella or e-coli poisoning?
Your cat has the same gut that a tiger has, and when fed a raw diet the stomach acid kills off all the inappropriate bacteria. To avoid human contamination simply use routine safe meat handling techniques.

How much do I feed daily?
The general rule of thumb is 2% of body weight or 1# per 25# of body weight per day. I feed my adult cats twice daily. Start with this and adjust based on your individual cats needs. It is a rare problem for cats to gain or lose too much weight on this diet unless they have underlying medical problems which need to be addressed.

What are the benefits to feeding this way?
A raw natural diet is the basis for all health in a carnivore!
Most cats on this diet:
Slim down to a healthy weight.
Breath improves within the first 3 weeks.
Stools no longer smell as strong and there is less of it (the body is actually using the food).
Skin and hair coats dramatically change.
Energy level and attitude improves.

CAN I FEED PORK SAFELY TO MY CARNIVORE?

I've learned from several sources that pork isn't the risk it once was in the US, because hog farmers no longer feed raw meat, which was the source of infection for hogs.

Here's a quote from a webpage that is part of the Ohio State University website: "Trichinosis is probably best known as a parasite that humans contract from eating raw or undercooked pork. Through an aggressive program of meat inspection, the incidence of trichinosis in pigs in the United States has been lowered to less than 1%, so it is unlikely (but not impossible) that pork products purchased in your local supermarket will contain /Trichinella/ larvae. Most recent outbreaks of trichinosis in the United States have been traced to pork products from pigs that have not been inspected and that have been slaughtered privately."

If you're concerned about the pork you have, or if you obtained it from an uninspected source, freezing it for 20 days at 5 degrees Fahrenheit (according to the same page) should kill the parasites (although the page says this won't necessarily work for wild game).

Heartworm Prevention

Heartworms are parasites that live in the animal’s heart. In a small number of animals, an infestation can cause persistent coughing, difficult breathing, weakness, fainting and occasionally heart failure. Baby heartworms are transmitted from one infected animal to another by mosquitoes.

Option One:
Enhance the animal’s natural resistance to the parasite by feeding an all natural raw diet, treating with homeopathy instead of regular drugs when sick, testing yearly for heartworms and using homeopathy if positive.

Risks:
If an animal contracts heartworms, the healthy balanced body will naturally build antibodies to the baby heartworms. When an animal tests positive, it simply means that they are out of balance.

Option Two:
Use Heartgard preventative once every eight weeks to kill any baby or immature heartworms present in the body.

Option Three:
Give daily or monthly heartworm preventative.

Risks:
Giving an animal a toxic substance, can cause them to be out of balance and unhealthy.

Side effects of the heartworm preventive drugs:

Diethylcarbamazine – side effects include headache, general malaise, weakness, joint pains, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting.

Ivermectin – side effects include vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, paralysis, jaundice and other liver problems, coughing, nose bleeds, high fevers, weakness, dizziness, nerve damage, bleeding disorders, loss of appetite, breathing difficulty, pneumonia, depression, lethargy, sudden aggressive behavior, skin eruptions, tremors and sudden death.

Though a minority of animals experience these reactions, they are seen in many breeds. An American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) report on adverse drug reactions showed that 65% of drug reactions reported and 48% of all reported deaths caused by drug reactions were from heartworm preventive medicines.

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