A Healthy New Year for our Pets and other ponderings.....

[Guest guest]

This is straight form the Heart! Please Read and share this Vital

Information!

Maybe someone could post this as a regular resource sheet and testimonial

for folks new to the site and this could get placed into a link called

" pets "

 

Here's Shakti....

 

Our cats have been all raw for the past year and eat mostly meat, wild

greans,

some avocado and bonito fish treats. Before I ever considered going raw or

before I knew that people do that, I put my cats on a raw diet after hearing

the

spokesperson from Wysong pet foods speaking on the subject of how to feed

animals raw. I picked up the tape at PCC a few years back and really grasped

the concept of what he was trying to say. Here is this guy making dry pet

foods

yet telling people, this food is simply a substitute for the 'crap' the

media tells us

to feed our pets. The main message of his lecture was to convince people why

it is best to serve raw meat to cats and dogs. Here is what I have learned

from my

own experience and after speaking with several holistic vets.

 

Also read Dr Wysong: http://www.rawfoodinfo.com/articles/art_comptexclu.html

and request his audio tape to get this information first hand!

 

There are vegan cat food options however these often have additives like

corn which cause

common allergies in most animals. Also most of these dry foods are usually

cooked

which can seriously dehydrate the animals causing excessive thirst. Cats in

particular are

healthiest when they get moisture from their food versus actual water. A cat

who drinks a lot

of water is likely to be dehydrated from too much dry food.

 

In the wild cats and dogs eat raw animal products and wild greens.

These contain lots of moisture content. I find that a combo of raw meat

and veggies is the best way to go. I have a new kitty in my life who LOVES

veggies

whereas our older kitty turns her nose up to such things. I may try and

create a slowly

dehydrated vegan cat food that is free of the common allergens. This would

only serve

as a 'special treat' in my opinion because our furry critters need their

moisture from their

food; not just water. In the wild, cats rarely if ever drink much water.

Dogs on the other

hand tend to drink quite a bit more though still benefit from a mostly raw

diet.

 

The Mud Bay Granary (on Greenwood Ave) is a good resource for raw meat

that is organic and ethically grown and easy to serve. If cost is an issue,

you may

want to find an affordable butcher and at least seek out free range

chickens. A

food bank may have free range chickens available and if they have extra,

this may be

one way around dealing with the 'karma' of purchasing meat products. A

butcher may

be willing to grind the products up. Nora Lenz has found great success going

to

PCC in Issaquah and finds that her kitties prefer the checken backs. Our

older cat

likes the necks. If you have an older cat who has never been raw, start out

by mixing

a little of the raw food into their regular food. Gradually increase the

amount of raw

with each serving and decrease the amount of cooked. Eventually it will be

all raw.

If they get finicky about eating it, try to sprinkle some bonito (fish

flakes - available

in most pet stores although cheeper in the people section of most Asian

markets)

onto their raw food along with a few wild greens in order to entice them.

 

If that doesn't work, call me and we can put our heads together.

 

Remember -- our pets our extensions of ourselves. How we care for them

affects us

directly. After putting my pets on raw, I discovered (by accident) about raw

for people

and my whole life and consciousness turned towards a a new paradigm shift;

To Happy

Animals Everywhere on one, two, three four legs and the winged ones too.

Lets return

ourselves to the natural intelligence found in nature.

 

L'chaim, Shabbat Shalom & to a Happy & Healthy New Year!

 

~Shakti

 

 

-

" Jeff Rogers " <jeff

" Joel Thornton " <joelpt; " Linda Reeves " <heartsong

Cc: " Stephen (Orion) Bard " <rawseattle; " Shakti Parvati "

<alohashakti; " Eric Farris " <ericscottfarris

Friday, December 31, 2004 10:50 AM

Re: Fw: Rawseattle Website Feedback

 

 

> While the RawSeattle website (IMO) is set up for a raw vegan content,

> I believe that really translates as a website honoring the more

> natural diet for humans. The primary aspect of that is RAW. As many

> raw families include pets, and those pets have an optimal diet, as

> well (raw), it makes sense to me to offer links to such info. Cats

> may thrive on a meat-centered diet. Some dogs may thrive on a

> vegetarian diet, some on an omnivore or more meat-centered diet. We

> could offer links to websites and email lists about raw pet diets, as

> well as offer local resources (Fremont has raw pet food, as well as

> (I believe) that pet feedstore on Greenwood(?).

>

> Jeff

>