Top 5 Tips For Feeding Your Dog & Cat

Do you know what’s in your pet’s food?

Are the ingredients helping to keep your dog and cat healthy or are those ingredients potentially leading to inflammation that can lead to disease down the road?

Food is the foundation for health. What we feed our pets will directly affect our pet’s health long-term.

How do you know if you’re feeding the best diet?

It all begins with the foundational needs for your pets. Dogs are omnivorous and cats are obligate carnivores. Dogs possess the ability to digest carbohydrates, whereas cats need meat to survive and do not do well with carbohydrates in their diets. However, both dogs and cats thrive when they are fed biologically appropriate meats and fats as the main source of energy in their diets.

Unfortunately, most dogs and cats are being fed a kibble dry diet, because that’s what is being taught at veterinary school as what’s best for pets and it’s also convenient and easy to feed.

But there is a better way.

We are seeing increasing disease rates in pets in younger ages. Over 60% of pets will develop cancer at some point. When we’re feeding diets that processed chemicals and toxins present, this leads to dysbiosis in the gut. Dysbiosis is when the good bacteria are outnumbered by the bad bacteria. If dysbiosis continues, this will lead to a condition called leaky gut.