Category: Pet Diet & Nutrition
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The Best Diet for Your Dog
I am a strong proponent of home-cooked meals for dogs for a multitude of reasons. Home-prepared food is not only healthier, it is also less expensive than pet food purchased in the supermarket or online and relatively easy to make and prepare in bulk. Humans and dogs have co-evolved alongside each other for many millennia,…
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The Best Diet for Your Cat
Unlike humans, felines have not evolved the sophisticated pancreas needed in order to handle the insulin demands of a carbohydrate-rich diet, and as a result, are strict obligate carnivores that should not be fed any type of carbohydrate. Having this intolerance to carbohydrates causes cats to be particularly prone to pancreatitis and inflammatory bowel disease,…