Pet Plus is a powder containing the nutrients and micronutrients our carnivorous pets would otherwise have eaten in the wild.
Enzymes
Raw food is full of enzymes. They are essential for life, so every living cell has plenty. As they are destroyed by heat, processed food has no enzymes, so the body has to make them in order to digest the food. This is an energy expensive process, and particularly hard work for the pancreas.
In Pet Plus, we’ve used Protease for protein digestion, Amylase for carbohydrate digestion, Lipase for fat digestion and ProCerelase for the digestion of vegetation.
On a processed food diet, these enzymes are critical for the proper digestion and assimilation of the nutrients, as enzymes are rendered inactive by the heating involved in the production of processed foods. Also, many processed foods are bulked out by cheap cereal based fillers which are very difficult for dogs and cats to digest.
Fed a raw food diet, the enzymes in Pet Plus help with the digestion of the raw food, especially the vegetation. Dogs and cats are not good at digesting vegetation. They would normally access most vegetable nutrition from the intestinal contents of their prey, where it has already been well chewed, partly digested and is full of vegetation-digesting enzymes and probiotics. So the ProCerelase is especially important.
Dogs And Cats Need Probiotics
Lactobacillus Acidophillus is one of the best probiotics for dogs and cats. It colonizes the gut easily, creates an environment that discourages pathogens and does not transfer antibiotic resistance, unlike some other probiotics. We decided not to use several different probiotics as they would then be competing with each other to colonize the gut, which would be rather silly.
Pets Need Prebiotics And Antioxidants
Fructo-Oligo Saccharides (FOS) are known to be the very best prebiotics, providing so much support for the existing healthy gut flora that supplying probiotics is almost unnecessary! We decided to do both with Pet Plus, to give our dogs and cats the best of both worlds! Frutafit Inulin IQ is the patented source of FOS we’ve chosen as it is plant based, very palatable and completely natural.
Alfalfa, wheat grass and barley grass have been pulverized and juiced then carefully dried so that all those fabulous nutrients, which would otherwise be hidden inside the cells, are preserved without chemicals and readily available to our pets. The beet root fibre is also a great source of fibre.
Together, these five ingredients are an essential support for the probiotics and provide an enormous number of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients.
Bilberries
A fantastic source of antioxidants, resveratrols and numerous superfood micronutrients, the addition of bilberries to Pet Plus takes its range of health promoting activities up to a whole new level!
Safflower Petals And Flax Seed
Excellent sources of essential fatty acids, safflower petals and flax seeds supply the perfect balance of omega 3 and 6 for dogs and cats. They are also rich sources of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients and support the probiotics.
Brewers Yeast
Repelling parasites is the main role of the brewers yeast. It is also a marvellous source of B vitamins and many other important nutrients.
Taurine And Liver
Taurine is essential for feline health so is provided in plenty in Pet Plus for Cats. We’ve also included some liver to prevent any problems with palatability, as our feline friends are sometimes rather careful about what they’ll eat, even when it’s so good for them!
Synergy With Nature
The key to successful nutritional supplementation is to use the ingredients found in nature in their whole form. There are at least 15,000 micronutrients in raw food which all work together, synergistically. If we isolate these to make individual vitamins, we are removing the very things we need! Always go for whole food based nutritional supplements and avoid isolates! Nature knows best!
About Susanna
I have a beautiful 2 &1/2 year old Maine Coon male who has been diagnosed with IBD. It is a chronic condition, but he is starting to recover from this difficult period. Would Pet Plus be good for him?
Certainly Pet Plus provides the nutrients required for the body to heal itself. The Pet Plus ingredients also nourish and reinforce the gut flora as well as providing numerous digestive enzymes so help with the whole digestive process.
You could also give him a raw food diet which would give him additional help. His body wouldn’t have to deal with all the toxins in processed food! Have a look at my diet sheet for guidance.
I’ll put some printed information in with your order too.
Thanks.
Suzi
Thank you very much. I have received the Pet Plus for cats and started today to give it to both of my Maine Coons. The male, under the care of the vet, is having to start a series of steroids / anti inflammatory capsules of one a day. i am not certain yet of the length of time. Do you think I should continue with this treatment and slowly wean him off of it. and when should i begin a raw food diet. At the moment he has been on the Royal Canin Sensitivity diet since November. He seemed to be doing great and then had his attack of IBD at the beginning of April, then a biopsy and is now recuperating.
Thank you and hope to hear from you.
Thanks for your comments and question. The sooner you get him onto raw foods the better. His body will be able to digest them so much more easily than anything that has been cooked and processed as the nutrients will be in their natural form which the body was designed to recognize and deal with. It is amazing how much the molecules are changed by processing. Just think of an egg. What does it look like raw? The transparent albumen is a fluid, but when cooked it becomes a white solid. Imagine the changes that have had to go on for that to happen. So how on earth does the body’s digestive system deal with something that is so different from its natural state? With great difficulty and use of numerous precious resources. I could go on, but basically, stick to what nature provides as closely as possible! See how they respond and you may well find you can reduce the medication quite soon.
Suzi
I breed Yorkshire Terriers and just had to make a comment about Pet Plus for dogs. I feed a raw meat diet and my dogs do extremely well on it and are always keen at meal times, barking at me for their food. All but 2 of my dogs eat a complete raw meat diet and 2 of them will only eat stewing steak or casserole steak. I was worried they were not getting the right nutrients from raw meat alone.
My vet introduced me to Pet Plus which I feed every day. I am truly amazed at the difference in 2 weeks. They all have so much more energy! I have rescue dogs with disabilities, 2 with spinal damage and I have never seen them run until now. They all look and must feel much happier and visibly healthier.
I had a couple of concerns, so i rang Suzi and she couldn’t have been more helpful. So if you had any doubts, don’t have! Pet Plus is the best thing i have given my dogs since changing to a raw meat diet.
What a great comment! I’m so pleased to hear it’s made such a difference already. People tell me these things all the time, but you have a lot of dogs and have seen such a significant difference in all of them since starting them on Pet Plus, it can’t be just coincidence!
Thank you for taking the time to write your comments on my web site.
My cat seems to have developed an extreme intolerance to anything that contains genetically modified organisms, and also to anything that ate GMO food (for example GMO corn- or soy-fed meats). For this reason I have switched his diet to 50% raw organic chicken, which helps, but doesn’t give him all the nutrients he needs. The other half of his diet consists of grain-free wet canned can food. I would like to switch him over to 100% organic and raw, and if possible use your product to complete his nutritional requirements. Does Pets Plus contain any GMOs or GMO-fed ingredients? If so, what percentage of the total ingredients do the GMOs account for?
Isn’t it amazing how sensitive we all are sometimes. I wish the world were GMO free. It’s a terrible blight on nature really. I wouldn’t touch anything GMO myself either. Sensible cat!
There is nothing GMO or GMO fed in Pet Plus. I wouldn’t even think of using anything genetically modified. I am completely against that wretched and completely unnecessary technological ‘advance’.
I’d give him raw organic chicken, rabbit, lamb, fish with liquidized organic greens, like grass, a little nettle and dandelion, broccoli, and so on, all mixed with 1/4 teaspoon of Pet Plus.
When you use wild greens, make sure it hasn’t been sprayed and that it isn’t a poisonous plant. This is what I do for my own cats and dogs and they’re really fit and healthy. There’s a downloadable diet sheet here on the web site too.
Hi Susanna, Have you changed the formula in Pet Plus for dogs, as i have just started a new tub and it goes burgundy sort of colour when mixed in with meat and the last tub stayed brown?
Yes, we’ve improved the formulation by adding bilberries and amazing prebiotics. There’s more detail on the website about what’s in Pet Plus and New Ingredients. Bilberries supply a fabulous range of micronutrients. I’m so pleased we managed to put them into the new formulation!