How do you feed your pets?

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Permalink Reply by Raw Mama Bear on October 22, 2009 at 5:59pm

my babies when they were babies.

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Permalink Reply by Vampirella on October 22, 2009 at 9:24pm

I thought you fed your pets your babies

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Permalink Reply by Raw Mama Bear on October 22, 2009 at 10:08pm

what?

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Permalink Reply by Makaranda...=) on October 24, 2009 at 12:33pm

wow that is so sad. there must have been something bad in the organic food. you never know with stuff like that. I give my dogs a lot of different stuff and it's a lot of cooked vegetables. One dog prefers vegan food, but they get a choice. Yesterday i used all of the leftover vegetable ends and made a mushy 'soup. They all went crazy for it. It had everything in it- even cabbage! But I also give them kibbles on the side. They will eat raw broccoli, carrot and cabbage ends. I think it is good for their teeth too.

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Permalink Reply by Joy on October 17, 2009 at 8:46pm

I had a cat that I fed ground turkey, and he liked salads and sprouted garbanzo beans, if you think about what animals eat, they eat the whole dead animal, meaning the decaying plants that an herbavore may eat, my dog would eat fecies if he could of other animals, I guess like people drinking pee, will add more tomorrow.

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Permalink Reply by Joy on October 19, 2009 at 7:31pm

Pets need plantlife too, which they do get from being carnivors in nature. What I am saying is - like if people eat oysters, the stomach of the oyster is full of seaweed, fish also have digesting plants inside that say- a bear or dog -would gobble down the whole fish, mice eat grains and legumes, birds have seeds, fruit & veggies/greens inside their tummies, my cats liked sprouted garbanzo beans, and sprouted wheatberries, and sprouted sunflower seed dressing on the salads I made for my family, and if I turned my back, my cats were up on the table or counter helping themselves to the salads. I usually shred carrots, and other plants and cut them small. I fed my cats raw ground meat, but they craved raw salad too, so I gave them some each day. I had a problem with deformity in my kittens causing midget like bodies and big heads into adulthood, due to kidney problems, trying to let them feed only on raw meat, they also were all very ferocious about fighting over the meat. This was many years back. When I got dogs, they would stop and eat blackberry leaves shoots and grass, and they say wolves eat lots of mice which eat grains, or if they get a larger herbavores, there again they have the rotting plant foods in the intestine which they consume with all the blood and guts.

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Permalink Reply by Anna Gardner on October 20, 2009 at 5:10pm

Thanks for your post, Joy
do you add vegetables to the meet? My cat used to love cucumbers, now he would maybe take a tiny bite.

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Permalink Reply by Joy on October 20, 2009 at 6:12pm

I would make a salad and use sprouted garbanzos, I made dressing with sprouted sunflower seeds, fresh made juice, and a little raw apple cider vinegar, shredded carrots, shredded or small cut broccoli, alfalfa sprouts or other sprouts, the sprouts contain B12, also they make it easier to digest meat. I would maybe put it in a food processor or run it through a Champion without the juice strainer attachment, but would use the baby-food feed plate, or you could maybe mix it up in a blender like a green juice smoothie. Also I add grass, any kind of grass, like lawn grass or wheatgrass, or any greens, high in chlorophyll to water, it binds the chemicals in tap water or bottled water, and energizes water to give it life, like in nature. If you read about wheatgrass and using it to purify water it will tell you what I mean, if you do not know. One way I have used greens is to put them in the blender with water and blend and then stain out the water to use for drinking water. In nature streams are full of plant and animal life, leaves drop like tea into the water. Most tea though is over-heated dried as are most dried herbs that are sold in stores. Some fresh herbs would be beneficial as well and you can make herb water like you would the chlorophyll water with greens or wheatgrass in the blender and then strained or add to the champion food feed tube. I would think that your pet probably liked the water content of cucumbers, and the natural cell salts/minerals in the cucumber as in other vegetables, which people crave but usually unknowingly try to replace with table salt, just like table sugar is a replacement for the natural sugars we crave, and the starch and fat replacements that people so unwittingly/naively use to replace nutrient filled fats and starches from nature. I know someone who feeds papaya and avocado to small dogs she rescues from shelters. Cucumbers and plants in the melon family have long digestion periods and can possibly cause fermentation problems when mixed with other foods. Some people use them for daylong feasting foods to clean the body and give the digestion a break. One of my favorite ways of using melons is to use the seeds to make seed sauce, you blend the seeds in the blender with some water and strain out the cream, delicious over melons, and plentiful if you are melon feasting.

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Permalink Reply by Danny on October 20, 2009 at 6:10pm

foods in the intestine which they consume with all the blood and guts. Eskimo's made a soup out of the stuff found in caribou stomach. Pretty much the only vegetation they would eat.

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on October 20, 2009 at 6:16pm

my cat eats grass himself, he wanders around the garden having his wild green salad. Most cats even cooked ones eat greens themselves. I have heard that they love spirulina and seaweed, never tried it myself - for the cat that is.
One cattery he stayed in gave each cat a tray of grass because they obviously had to stay indoors for the duration of their time there.

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Permalink Reply by Joy on October 21, 2009 at 7:40pm

Most cats even cooked ones? Just messing with you, I thought it funny (; Not to be insulting or anything, I just think it sounds funny, unless you are talking about China? My friend said she got some animal food that said it was for cats and dogs both, but she needs reading glasses to see, and when she looked at the ingredients she said it is beaver meat, which made her really question buying pet foods with meat for her animals. I thought they were endangered species?

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Permalink Reply by Anna Gardner on November 8, 2009 at 9:10am

Endangered? not where I live. Beavers cause so much trouble every year in Latvia. They chew wooden fence on the border between Latvia and Lithuania. Our government budgets half a million bucks each year to replace the fence. I wonder why can't they use plastic or metal, but who am I to question the budget? :-) Beavers' family lives in my pond. They cut all the trees around the pond and dug so many holes, I fell twice in these traps.
Anyway, I got tired of grounding the meet, and tried to give my cat the whole pieces of chicken - wing, leg, neck. He didn't have any trouble grinding the bones himself. Takes him about 3 minutes to chew the whole wing!!!

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