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How to Feed Freeze-Dried Raw Diets to Your Pets
What is Freeze-Drying Food? Do you actually know what freeze-drying is? This food preservation process is relatively new, having been commercially developed in the middle of the 20th century, yet offers many nutritional advantages over older storage/preservation methods such as dehydration, canning, smoking, etc. Those methods all involve heating of the foods being preserved which
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A Most Mysterious Habit!
All of our pets have habits, some more baffling than others. Why, for example, does one of your cats like to lurk on the top of your bookshelves after dinner every evening while the other cuddles on your lap? Why does your dog nudge you for bedtime around 7 PM every night? I have a
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Xylitol by Any Other Name Would be as Deadly
In “Romeo and Juliet” Shakespeare famously wrote, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” indicating that the name of a thing does not alter its essence. While this is a true statement, it is obvious that Shakespeare had not encountered any ingredient or flavoring specialists and witnessed the devious tactics some of
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Life Expectancy and Epigenetics
Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Unlike genetic changes, epigenetic changes are reversible and do not change your DNA sequence, but they can change how your body reads a DNA sequence. Check out the CDC’s article on Epigenetics to learn more.
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Dulse is not Carrageenan and Carrageenan is not Dulse
By Carol Kendig First, let me admit I am not an authority on algae or seaweed. If you combine these two species together there are over 350,000 varieties of collected species throughout the world and new species are frequently discovered. However, as a consistent user of kelp and dulse in my own diet and those
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It’s Rawgust!
By Carol Kendig A Biologically Correct Diet Ever since some clever marketing person came up with the idea of combining raw feeding with the month of August we have been subjected to the awkward — Rawgust. While it is not exactly a lyrical word, it does serve as a timely reminder for all of us
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How to Transition Your Picky Cat to a Raw Diet
Will everyone with a picky cat, please raise your hand? Okay, I can feel the breeze of millions of hands waving all over the world. Most cats are very finicky about their food and trying to switch an adult cat to a new diet can be a frustrating experience for even the most loving owner.
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Your Dogs & Cats Will Love Raw Freeze-Dried Poultry Necks
By Carol Kendig I am a lucky woman to have three lovely Australian Labradoodles sharing my life, causing chaos, and bringing me joy. Since I work for a pet food company, frequent local pet supply stores on a weekly basis, and attend pet trade shows, I see all the new and innovative pet products. Because
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Build a Pet Disaster Survival Kit
By Carol Kendig May 8th is National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day Floods! Fires! Earthquakes! Snowbound! Hurricanes! Ice Storms! Any one of these can leave you with no electricity, no water, no communication, and roads that are impassable. You are trapped, alone with your pet depending 100% on you, their fearless leader, to take care of
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Transitioning Your Dog or Cat to a Raw Diet
By Carol Kendig What Do Cats and Dogs Naturally Eat? Our dogs and cats are both carnivores, but while cats are true carnivores, dogs are often referred to as scavenging-carnivores. The main difference is simply that cats need no additional nutrition other than their prey animals provide, but dogs can tolerate eating limited amounts of
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