Feeding resources

[Dr. Jeff]

I recommend that anyone who is new to fresh food feeding do some reading (Kymythy Schultze’s book is a great place to start) and consider getting further support from others (on my site or from one of the following sites or lists):

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rawfeeding/
http://rawfed.com/myths/index.html
http://rawfed.com/
http://www.RawFedDogs.net/
http://www.rawmeatybones.com/
http://www.rawlearning.com/

Dr. Jeff

PS- This list is a few years old now but will be added to from your suggestions!

 

[Dr. Christina]

such an important topic. Often people think they have to look to special places to buy the ingredients. Not so. If you eat (and are not a breathatarian) then you have food ingredients for your cats and dogs. If you are vegan or vegetarian, you will have to buy meat.

Are some sources better than others? Of course, just like you would buy for yourself. Any fresh food is better than processed.

Dr. Jeff makes a good suggestion to do some more reading. I like books by Becker, Basko, Brown, Hofve for starters.

1. Pottinger’s Cats – a study in nutrition by Francis Pottinger, who studied thousands of cats over a 10 year period, documenting that only those fed raw meat, raw milk and cod liver oil could be healthy and it took 3 generation to regain health. He even found that the ground where the raw fed cats lived grew wonderful weeds after the cats were removed, whereas the area housing the cooked meat or milk had scrawny weeds.

2. PaleoDog by Dr. Jean Hofve and Celeste Yarnall is the newest raw food book. They have decades of knowledge and experience. I agree with most of their writing. They also cover vaccinations and a few healing modalities. They have recipes.

3. Dr. Becker’s Real Food for Healthy dogs and cats by Beth Taylor and Karen Becker gives practical guidelines for feeding a fresh food diet (mostly with raw meats).

4. Unlocking the canine ancestral diet is the newest book by Steve Brown, who does extensive scientific research, so there is a lot of detailed information. He gives examples of dogs who have become much healthier even with one fresh meal a week. He has many charts comparing the nutrients in commercial foods, frozen raw diets, paleo diets and his diet. His practical feeding guidelines are for total raw feeding or merely a few meals a week.

5. ee Spot Live Longer by Beth Taylor and Steve Brown is several years old and still full of great information. Natural Pet Products

6. Fresh Food and Ancient Wisdom by Dr. Ihor Basko, a forerunner in holistic veterinary medicine since the early 1970s, will give you ways to individualize the foods you feed your pets according to the Chinese system of Food Therapy. If an animal is chilly and seeks heat, she may thrive on “warming” foods – certain types of meats, vegetables and even cooking the food.

7. Canine Nutrigenomics – The New Science of Feeding Your Dog for Optimum Health, by W. Jean Dodds, DVM & Diana Laverdure. Learn about the new field using genes to determine the best diet.

Well, that's more than enough to get you started. Most importantly, start feeding some fresh food right now.