For the vast majority of pet dogs (modified wolves), cats (modified desert predators) and ferrets (modified polecats), a diet of McCans or McKibble is their everyday reality. Continue…

Optimal health – health that gives one the greatest chance for a long, active, vital life – is much more than simply the absence of disease. It means being the very best you can be. It means not being incapacitated or wasting away physically, physiologically, emotionally or mentally. Continue…

Issues in Nutrition– including Home-Made and Raw Food Diets: Nutrition and the Immune System Continue…

If you’re not quite ready to jump whole-hog into the home-prepared diet or you have several large dogs, these recipes offer a convenient way to provide many of the benefits of fresh foods and nutritious supplements while maintaining nutritional balance. Continue…

Dogs are carnivores, and they love to chew. Chewing is fun, therapeutic, and it helps keep the teeth clean. Wolves in the wild rarely develop dental tartar due to their consumption of prey. Continue…

FEEDING YOUR CAT: KNOW THE BASICS OF FELINE NUTRITION. Diet is the brick and mortar of health. Continue…

Television commercials and magazine advertisements for pet food would have us believe that the meats, grains, and fats used in these foods could grace our dining tables. Continue…

“Let food be your medicine” – Hippocrates

Our pets’ diet is critical to their long and happy lives. Continue…

It all began in 1988, when our beloved year-old tortoiseshell Persian, Dinah, developed what was diagnosed as a “granuloma” on her lip. Our then veterinarian treated her with the “accepted” method of dealing with such disorders, a cortisone injection. Continue…