What makes our raw cat and dog food so different to the rest?

The answer is simple; at K9 Natural we do not believe we know the best raw diet for our dogs and cats. We do not try to second guess nature; we do not believe we are good enough to produce the perfect food for dogs and cats. We do not believe science is good enough to produce the perfect food for dogs and cats. So that leaves us with the one thing we do know.

Nature can and does provide the perfect food for all its animals (whether they can catch it is not up for discussion here). That food is raw, uncooked, unaltered, warm (body temperature) full of blood, full of EFAs, full of vitamins, full of calcium, and all the nutrients they need. People do dispute this, some Vets dispute this, some scientists dispute this, and some people dispute this. My question to those that do is how can you? The biggest hurdle we face as humans is ourselves, we believe we always know best and we have the answers, yet we still cannot predict earthquakes, or stop the weather, or the tide or most things that are ruled by nature. Yet we firmly believe we can feed cats and dogs better than nature and ourselves for that matter?

I once met an Indian chief who used the wolf as their symbol of hope and their society’s teacher. They watch nature, they lived by nature’s laws and they were a better race because of it. He summed up humans and how we behave towards wolves in this case but towards one another in my view by saying this “as humans what we fear we destroy, and what we cannot conquer we also destroy.” How true are those words? So how does that relate to raw dog and cat food? It sums up the whole ethos behind our company, as we believe that getting a raw dog and cat food right means observing nature, following its methods and not fearing but trusting our own instincts. No one I speak to every disagrees with the simple logic that cats eat birds and dogs will eat rabbits given the chance, so why is it so difficult to convince those people with what we call intelligence that a raw cat and dog food, is a food fit for cats and dogs? It is simple if I want to sell you something I have 2 very distinct ways of doing it. The first is the way we choose at K9; therefore I tell you to trust your instincts and what you already know; you know a dog and cat doesn’t cook its food, so RAW it is. You know they don’t graze in paddocks of wheat, you know they need moisture in their food.
You know if a cat or dog is losing weight to feed it more, or if it’s gaining weight to feed it less. Yet we still question how much to feed and what to feed them, why? Because the second way to sell you anything is on fear; you are told that you do not know what to feed a cat or dog, you are told how much to feed them because you are told you don’t know. You are told they must have a complete and balanced diet? What is one of those, do you eat one every day? You are told Dogs are domesticated so they eat differently than they did in the wild? Why then have we only started to do feed cat and dog kibble, biscuits since 1950, when they were domesticated 15,000 years ago? You are told you know very little about them and that your dog is an omnivore. Yet nature (thousands of years ago) and science (fairly recently in the last century) classified it as a carnivore. You are told your cat is an obligate carnivore, yet unless it eats biscuits it will not thrive.

Notice the common theme here, you are being told you are inadequate of caring for your cat or dog. Do the same people tell you that you are inadequate of looking after yourself? Well unfortunately that is now becoming the norm too. So at K9 Natural we will only tell you what we know and that is very little compared to nature. I will go into great depth regarding the food and how we make it in the next issue of my blog. If you do nothing else after reading this second chapter remember this, trust your instincts, you do not have to feed my raw diet to your cats and dogs you are quite capable of making your own raw food for them and we encourage that.
What we do make for you is a food you can hopefully feed with confidence knowing we have told you everything we know and it is a little more convenient and sourced from animals deemed fit for human consumption, in New Zealand which has the strictest farming practices and food safety controls in the world and one of the most cleanest, free range farms and farming practices on the planet.

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