Nutrition

To provide the proper internal environment for the healing of the body, animals and people require the right amounts of protein, carbohydrate, fat and pure water.

There is no cooked, dried, processed, canned or frozen food which can provide this proper environment. The only source of good nutrients is organic raw foods and cooked grains.

A cat or dog out in the wild kills their prey, eats the stomach contents first- (cooked grains and vegetables), then eats the flesh and bones. This is what their digestive tract has developed over thousands of years to digest. It has only been in the past 100 years or so, that animals have developed nutritional imbalances and diseases related to poor diet.

For example, did you know that a cat's digestive tract was not intended to digest dry food? Cats originally evolved in a semi desert area where not much water was available. They got most of their water from their prey. With our current feeding practices of feeding dry food to cats, they tend to stay just a little dehydrated all the time. This type of feeding tends to aggravate chronic cystitis and leads to chronic kidney failure in cats as well as many other ailments.

Not only do commercial foods rarely contain the proper balance of nutrients, they also contain substances we wish they didn't- including slaughterhouse waste, toxic products from spoiled foodstuffs, nonnutritive fillers, heavy metal contaminants, sugar, pesticides, herbicides, drug residues, artificial colors, flavors and preservatives.

For information on pet foods and feeding your pet, see Chapter 2 in Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats. As well as "Natural Nutrition for dogs and cats" by Kymythy Schultze.