Diet, Nutrition & Feeding Guidelines

Looking at some east ways to add fresh food to a processed diet for improved health

Feeding a fresh fed dog on holiday is tricky, so check these recommendations out!

If you're looking for a healthy alternative to raw in the USA, check out this handy list!

WHY ARE THEY NEEDED? If your dog is itchy, has loose stools, acid reflux, recurring ear infections, IBS/IBD or any other digestive or skin issues it’s time to do an elimination diet. FOOD ALLERGIES AND INTOLERANCES Food allergies and food intolerances are two different things, food allergies which are an IgE response are rare, only around 10% true food allergies can not be changed, once you have a food allergy you have it for life, food intolerances however can build over tim

I often get asked what the next best thing to feeding a raw diet is; this is a difficult question answer as raw feeding has health benefits like no other, but if you cannot raw feed I always recommend feeding a balanced lightly cooked diet whether that is pre made or home cooked. Feeding real fresh food will always be the best for your dogs' health and wellbeing whether it is raw or lightly cooked. So what if neither of these options are currently possible? What are the alter

There are a few different ways to transition your dog to raw and no one way will suit all dogs. Ho you choose to transition your dog should depend each individual dog, take into consideration age and how sensitive your dog is. STRAIGHT SWAP this may work well for dogs that don’t have a sensitive tummy and some puppy’s, if in doubt go for a slower transition. To do a straight swap simply feed current food one day and change over to the raw diet the next.. SLOW TRANSITION this

Before we begin to look at dry foods, its important to understand a little more about our dogs and where they have come from. We have domesticated dogs for around 30,000 years, our dogs are facultative carnivores which means their main diet should be a meat based diet, but they can survive on other foods if needed. Dogs are a species of canid, other canids are foxes, jackals and dingoes, but our dogs closest ancestors are grey wolves. We have changed the shape and size of our

This is an “argument” you will see often in the dog world so hopefully I can put some of the misinformation to bed! I think in some respects we have become very disconnected with what our dogs actually are. Yes - they are family! Yes, they are our cute cuddly babies that we adore; however the fact remains they are a species of carnivorous canid! Other carnivorous canids are wolves, foxes, jackals and dingoes, but our dogs' closest ancestor is the grey wolf (canis lupus) shari