Paleo Pets

I am a Type 1 diabetic, and I have a Diabetes Alert Dog named Edward. He is a medical service dog. He is a black Standard Poodle, and he eats Paleo.

When He was a year old, he started vomiting up blood uncontrollably. He was taken to an emergency veterinary clinic, and then referred to a specialist veterinary hospital in the the big city.

They could not figure out why he was vomiting up blood, and he was at death's door. They performed emergency surgery to look at the interior of his stomach, and they promptly sewed him back up again.

They told us that his stomach had so much inflammation and bleeding ulcers that there was nothing to be done. They gave us pamphlets on pet burial and cremation services and sent us home without any answers.

That is when I heard about Homeopathic Veterinarians. I knew that allopathic medicine had failed us, so I went to the Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy website to look up if there were any homeopathic vets in my area. I found one, and Edward started treatment immediately.

One of the things that the vet told me was that I needed to transfer Edward to a raw, biologically appropriate diet. For dogs, that means a diet composed of raw meat, organs, bones, and a small amount of pureed plant matter.

There is now commercial raw dog food sold by many veterinarians or independent pet stores. This makes the choice to feed your dog raw much easier than it used to be, when raw feeders had to make up their dog or cat's food themselves.

Raw feeding, also known as a Paleo diet, usually dramatically improves the health of dogs with a whole host of health issues, just like it does for humans.

For cats, a raw or paleo diet is even more essential, because cats are what are called obligate carnivores. That is basically a fancy term to say they cannot survive very well on a diet that does not include animal protein and nutrients. They absorb absolutely no nutrition from plant matter, whereas dogs and other canines can absorb a small amount of nutrition from pureed plant matter, where the plant's cell walls have been broken.

Raw animal protein, fat, and bone is the most biologically appropriate diet for dogs and cats because they are carnivores. Just like on the Paleo diet you are supposed to eat grass-fed beef, because beef are ruminants, designed by God to eat grass.

When a cow eats grass, he reaches ideal health, which passes through to the animal that eats the cow, including humans. I don't feed my dog grass-fed beef because I can't afford to, but simply feeding him a commercial raw diet that I rotate between species of animal and brand every bag has put him into almost ideal health.

He occasionally throws up still, but if he seems to be doing poorly health-wise I give him another dose of his homeopathic medicine prescribed by my homeopathic vet, make sure he is eating a raw diet with targeted nutritional supplementation, and he never gets heart worm or fleas.

He has never gotten heart worm on this diet, and he hasn't gotten heart worm prevention medication for 7 years. He is now 8 years old and going strong, healthy and athletic without any prescription medication at all, including flea, tick, and heart worm preventatives. He doesn't need them. He eats essentially the same diet that a coyote does, and there has never been a coyote that has died from heart worm infection, unlike pet dogs.

Update:

Here are some links to very informative books that gave me a good background on the topic of raw feeding for dogs and cats. I do not use the recipes in either book because I feed a commercial raw diet to my dog. I will have links to two helpful articles about commercial raw diets also.

The books are The BARF Diet, by Dr. Ian Billinghurst and the second is Raw Dog Food by Carina Beth MacDonald

These two articles on commercial raw diets have been the most helpful for me. The State of the Commercial Raw Diet Industry and High Pressure Processing and Your Dog's Raw Food.

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