Wednesday, 10 December 2008

More decisions!

Went shopping the other day and just happened to end up in 'Pets at home'! I was like a child in a sweet shop, just as well hubby was with me or the bank account would have suffered.
Such an array of 'stuff' for your four legged friend.
I did manage to hold myself back and left with a couple of toys, a Kong, a blanket and a brush.

I've spent a few hours researching the 'BARF' diet, Bones And Raw Food diet. This seems to be becoming a very popular way to feed your dog, due to recent research into commercial dog and cat foods people are concerned about the amount of additives and chemicals which are finding their way into the commercial foods, even more worrying is the other additives such as deceased cats and dogs which includes the collars and name tags! It seems that commercial feeds are causing many health problems in our animals and are contributing to a reduced life span. The BARF diet means no added chemicals, its an all natural diet.

I want to do what is best for my dog but I feel the BARF diet is going to take excellent time management which I do not have, it requires you preparing and making up your dogs meals and to be honest cutting up raw meat is not a favourite pass time of mine!

There are some commercially prepared feeds which have passed the close inspection of researchers and you can also get prepared, frozen, raw meat feeds so I think i'll be looking into those a little more before making a final decision on what to feed my pup.


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