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Why Feed Your Pets Raw Food? The philosophy behind the biologically appropriate diet is that this is what their body was designed to eat. Although cats and dogs have been domesticated for thousands of years, their internal digestive system and physiology have remained virtually unchanged. A few thousand years is but a blink of an eye compared to millions of years of evolution. The biologically appropriate diet looks at what the diet of the wild ancestors of our pets was, and tries to mimic it. Over the last decade the dog has been re-classified as a wolf. Despite changes in their physical appearance and behaviour, the physiology and mainly the digestive system have not changed. The dog is defined as a carnivore that behaves as an omnivore (or an omnivore that behaves like carnivore), a hunter and a scavenger. In nature the dog would eat anything from prey to insects, fruit and berries. The cat is a true carnivore and relies on hunting for its diet. Both species will eat the carcases of their prey whole and raw. Therefore their meals will naturally include internal organs, plenty of bones and vegetables including herbs, from the gut of their prey. Other then the intestine content of other animals they will eat no grains. Both species rely on meaty bones as a major part of their diet. Most people feed their pets dry (kibble) or canned food. Most vets would recommend the same food, with maybe a preference to one brand or another. In the last 60-70 years, processed pet food has become the standard and the companies who make them have become the main authority on what is the best nutrition for your pet. Without trying to 'demonize' those companies, these facts raise a few questions: What did pets eat in the thousands of years they were human companions and in millions of years before that? Is there no conflict in interest when a business that sells food teaches vets about nutrition? What do they put in those crunchy kibbles? If it's so healthy, why are pets so sick? During the existence of both dogs and cats they ...