Pet Health Tips

The health and vitality of precious animals is and should be one of our greatest concerns. Many people today couldn't care less about how healthy their pet is and some even beat or abandon their defenseless dogs or cats. It can be very sad. The two most important factors in your animal’s health and fitness is no different than ours. The two most important factors to pet health are obviously exercise and diet. Although as humans we have to focus on other factors as well like stress and lifestyle issues. For a dog (and for you!) one of the greatest disciplines you can engage in, is taking your dog for at least 1 long walk per day. If not for their sake, use it as an excuse for you to get some good cardiovascular exercise in. There is nothing like starting the day, getting the blood pumping, increasing your heart rate and breathing some clean fresh air. Your dog will thank you for it and years down the line, you'll be glad you went for your daily walks. Taking a daily walk like this in the morning not only helps you burn more calories during the day (vs not going for your walk) but it helps reduce stress and allows you to plan your day and focus on the majors vs the minors. On top of all the other benefits of daily dog walks, it's fun! Don't forget that.

Now the other key component to your pet’s health and longevity is your dogs’ diet. A dog’s digestive system was not designed to eat the dry cooked kibble that we feed them. If you think about how their diets would be in the wild, they would primarily be eating a raw meat based diet. They would also be eating grubs, insects and maybe some vegetables and grass from time to time. Their digestive tracts are relatively short which means that they are able to process raw meats like lions and so forth. The meats that they would be eating would have lots of fatty acids in them as well as live enzymes that cooked and processed foods do not. This means that their bodies must create these enzymes to help turn that dry kibble into a liquid so it can be processes and assimilated in the intestines. This is a lot of work for a body to do! Because their bodily resources are always taken up or consumed with trying to digest, process and assimilate the chemical laden processed food we are giving them, their bodies cannot replicate new healthy tissues and cells. Now as the dog ages even more rapidly, each generation of replicated cells and tissues become lesser versions of the former ones. Then at some point disease takes over and your dog or cat becomes ill and or diagnosed with some type of cancer that eventually takes them. A lot of times their coat is an indicator of their health. If their skin looks bad or your dog is shedding profusely this can tell a lot.

Dr. Francis Pottenger studied hundreds of cats for over 3 generations and found that the cats that were fed a diet high in enzymes and more raw food thrived, whereas the cats that were fed a typical processed diet had similar diseases that we humans face. Because animals have the ability to hunt for their food and eat it in the state that they found it, raw and uncooked, their stomachs produce high amounts of hydrochloric acids to liquefy and make alkaline the raw meats they should be eating.

So take some time each morning for you and your beloved dog and go for a walk. Both of you will benefit. Also start feeding your dog some raw meats and take a look at some of the pet vitamins we have available. Another option for feeding your dog some vegetables is to grind up some raw nuts like almonds for example with some avocados, carrot chunks, broccoli and throw some spices into it with some raw meat and some of our dog vitamins and your dog will love it!