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BARF – What Does It Stand For?

BARF has come to mean many things, but essentially it is the nick name for a raw food diet. BARF has been said to mean Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones And Raw Food, but whichever meaning you choose, it means feeding your dog or cat the raw food they were designed to eat when [...]

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Golden Retriever Health Problems

Chester, who is now a beautiful, glossy, energetic 7 year old Golden Retriever, had a difficult start – he was one of many Golden Retrievers with health problems! Take a look at the problems he faced. Diarrhoea In Dogs For the first 6 years of his life, he had diarrhoea. The vets prescribed everything they [...]

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What To Feed Dogs And Cats Beside Dog/Cat Food?

Hello – I’m Suzi McIntyre. I qualified as a vet in 1980 and have learned from over 30 years experience that when it comes to pet health, prevention is definitely better than cure. Feed Dogs And Cats What They Really Need What you feed dogs and cats – the pets you cherish is important. Why [...]

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Raw Food Diet For Dogs And Cats

In line with the human medical profession, those of us caring for pets are working towards the prevention of disease, largely through a more natural raw food diet. Raw Food Diet? How Can Raw Food Help My Pet? In the human field, there is an enormous amount of evidence to show that the more raw [...]

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What Exactly Is Raw?

I’m amazed at the various interpretations of ‘raw food’. Raw means uncooked, unprocessed, in its natural form with live, active enzymes and other micronutrients. Is Cold Food Raw? Raw doesn’t necessarily mean cold and cold definitely doesn’t mean raw! For example, ham is not raw. It is a slice of a pig’s bottom which has [...]

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Arthritis, Kidney Stones And Aural (Ear)Yeast Infections

I am often asked questions like this, so thought I’d publish this for you all to see, so you can all see how to improve your pets’ health. Enquiry I just ordered another jar of Pet Plus for my 10yo Bichon/Maltese. It’s helping his arthritis! What would cause kidney stones & yeast infections in his [...]

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Probiotics And Prebiotics

Probiotics are the healthy bacteria which live in the intestines of all mammals. They are essential for the proper digestion and assimilation of food as well as helping to regulate the gut. Even the immune system depends on a healthy bacterial population in the body. Probiotics live in the gut, the mouth, on the skin [...]

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Chester’s Journey To Health

Chester, who is now a beautiful, glossy, energetic 7 year old Golden Retriever, had a difficult start! Just look at the health problems he faced. Diarrhoea For the first 6 years of his life, he had diarrhoea. The vets prescribed everything they could think of, the owners tried every different diet they could think of, [...]

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Feeding Raw – Do I Need Pet Plus Too?

Feeding raw food to our dogs and cats is the very best way to keep them healthy, but, unless we are feeding whole herbivores, there are numerous vital ingredients that are missing. Pet Plus provides those, so bridging the gap between what they need and what we are able to feed them. Probiotics Probiotics are [...]

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BARF Diet Recipes

BARF means Biologically Appropriate Raw Food which is simply the food the animal would have eaten in the wild, away from human intervention. This is clearly raw as animals don’t cook their food. Some animals do bury fresh food to allow the enzymes in the food to begin breaking it down. This is known as [...]

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