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Chinese medicine teaches that high quality food is a key part of your dog's health regimen.
Commercial dog foods containing low-grade meat and additives can be the source of many chronic health problems. These foods often end up damaging the digestive system rather than providing dogs with the quality of nutrition necessary to be energetic, healthy, and vibrant. We recommend that anything you feed your dog is "human grade" food.
The best thing you can do for your dog's diet is to prepare homemade meals with fresh ingredients. We recommend recipes with foods that have specific healing properties according to the principles of Chinese medicine. Click here for some of our recommended recipes for hearty and delicious meals.
Many holistic vets recommend the BARF (Bones and Raw Food) diet for dogs. Click here for more information.
If you don't have the time to prepare custom meals, here are some links to companies that make both wet and dry dog foods with human-grade ingredients:
Flint River Ranch
Wysong
Nature's Variety Prairie Dog Food
The BARF diet can stand for Bones and Raw Food or Biologically Appropriate Raw Foods. Proponents of the diet say that feeding animals raw bones, meat, and vegetables returns them to their natural evolutionary eating habits. This gives them the same fresh foods that an animal in the wild would eat.
Before beginning the BARF diet we recommend that you consult a holistic vet and educate yourself about the details of preparing balanced meals. The following books are a good place to start –
The BARF Diet, by Dr. Ian Billinghurst
Raw Meaty Bones Promote Health, by Tom Lonsdale
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