Raw and Kibble
For the Best Commercial Dog Food
You want the healthiest dog food for your canine family member but you don't want to give up the ease of that bagged dry dog food? Are you considering a dog raw food diet? Combine raw and kibble! By combining raw and kibble, you turn a medium to high grade kibble into the best dry dog food. The more human grade food you add, the more high quality dog food you get! This is a great way to begin the process of dog health. Your dog gets used to it without stomach upset and you gain confidence as he becomes happier and more energetic.
You can either stay with that feeding program, choose to go with 100% raw dog food, or switch to home made dog foods. Whichever you decide, I believe your dog will thank you for it.
When I started feeding the combination of raw and kibble, I fed them at separate times because I figured the raw would digest faster, and might cause stomach upset. Here's my thinking: - Raw meat is what a dog was made to eat. Being uncooked means it still has enzymes which help a great deal in the digestion process. Without enzymes, either the body has to make them or the food is simply useless.
- Mixing foods that need different enzymes can leave food fermenting in the stomach. I thought it would sit until it could be digested or partially digested or make an exit via one of the body exits.
For a human example of bad food combining with me is I love meat and potatoes. Love them. Steak and baked potato or Prime Rib and mashed potatoes make my mouth water. However, if I eat them together I know I’m going to feel like a beached whale. Why? Because they are going to hang around awhile and ferment in my insides. I’ll groan from feeling overfull and even feel unable to take a deep breath. And after a day or two, I’ll be okay. I can eat all the steak I want with raw spinach (salad) or a few cups of cooked spinach and a little applesauce and feel wonderful. It hits the spot. It cures my hunger, my steak craving and never makes me feel bloated or in need of a nap. And of course how I feel afterward is my body telling me it can digest it easily. For many months I fed our five dogs a combination of raw and kibble, raw vegetables, cooked meat and cooked brown rice. Usually I feed raw meat in the morning and the rest combined in the evening. If I’d been away from the house most of the day, I would omit the raw for that day or feed raw meat first and the rest of the combination an hour or two later.
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