The Dog Bowl Pet Supply and BARF Raw Food Blog

The Basic ingredients you will need to produce the BARF Diet: Because there is NO PRACTICAL WAY we can exactly duplicate a dog or cat's evolutionary diet, the solution is to mimic that diet - as accurately as possible - with substitute foods.

These we select from whatever suitable foods are conveniently available, from the local supermarket for example.

In the case of the cat, an obligate carnivore and a hunter, the BARF diet is based upon the whole fresh raw carcass of a small mammal or bird.

In the case of the dog, an omnivore, a hunter and a scavenger, the diet is based on that same carcass, together with a carcass stripped of most of its flesh, plus a range of whole raw foods of both animal and plant origin.

The very simple foods that we choose as the basis of the BARF diet include such things as muscle meat, bone, fat, organ meat, vegetable materials and a few supplements such as oil, yogurt, kelp, and various vitamins.

Because the evolutionary diet relies on these whole raw foods, it delivers nutrients in a unique and essential way. The more we provide food items to our pets in their original unprocessed form, the more health promoting those food items will be. The most notable example of this is the use of raw meaty bones, which supply out pet's calcium and phosphorus requirements in a manner which cannot be duplicated by any other means. Even the form in which we supply water has a major impact on health.