Creating a nutrient balanced meal with a "better" ratio Let's talk ratios. Ratios provide a super simple outline or guideline for feeding our dogs species-appropriate foods. The most common ratio is still 80/10/10. What that means is... 80% meat10% organs...
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When Raw Feeding Should Not Be Taken Too Literally
Did I get your attention? Good! There is raw feeding purism and then there is raw feeding done correctly and safely. The truth is, not all foods should be fed raw. While meat, organs, bones, and eggs should be fed raw, foods such as fish, shellfish, and most...
Essential Oils for Canines
A quick guide to safe essential oil use When it comes to providing our fur-kids with relief from minor and chronic conditions, ailments, bumps, scrapes, injuries, anxiety, recuperation from veterinary procedures and surgeries, and from fleas and ticks, one of my...
Raw Feeding for Dummies
Excerpt Lessons from our Raw Feeding Course To take advantage of the full course available for FREE, please join The Holistic Canine: Raw Feeding, Naturopathy, & Keto group on Facebook! What does my dog require? Lesson II Your dog has several requirements that are...
Cellular Methylation: Canine Health
The Importance of Methylation in Canine Health & Disease Prevention Cellular methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that affects (controls) gene expression in animal cells and is responsible for the body’s most complex and vital processes. In other words,...
Raw Feeding Guide
©2019 Updated Version Offering your dog the best possible nutrition plan does not have to be complicated. Not only that, but it does not have to cost you a fortune nor take up hours of your time providing daily meals. Your number one goal should be to supply your dog...
Balanced Canine Diets: The Big Misunderstanding PART II
The Incredible Raw Meaty Bones Providing your dog with a nutrition plan that cultivates optimal health may not require a PhD or a medical degree, but it does require a good bit of knowledge and appreciation of biology and nutrition science. When we carefully consider...
Balanced Canine Diets: The Big Misunderstanding
PART I: Creating Balance with Raw Meaty Bones If you know me, then you know how insistent I am about feeding raw meaty bones (RMBs) with an abundance of marrow and connective tissues. One of the most influential books on my raw journey was Dr. Tom Lonsdale’s Raw Meaty...
Dis-ease Prevention through Epigenetic Gene Expression
Despite our best efforts, the modern canine is stricken with chronic conditions and diseases with an alarmingly increasing mortality rate. Can these conditions and diseases be prevented even if genetics plays a role? YES! Epigenetic science is showing us how diet and...
Nutrient Requirements for the Cultivation of Optimal Health in Dogs and Puppies
Puppies and adult dogs require essential micro nutrients in very specific amounts for proper growth and development, cellular function and methylation, epigenetic gene expression, metabolism, tissue and organ function, skeletal maintenance and repair, brain...