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Marithyme has been home to raw diet raised dogs since 1994. I hope to encourage my puppy buyers to consider these methods of feeding, but I don't insist they feed raw. I do expect each buyer to research what they will feed their puppy in advance to their puppy being released. We discuss the many foods in our Marithyme Yahoo Group. Nutrition is everything and key to raising healthy dogs (and our cat). My many years involved with dogs have taught me well. I have learned first to start out with the best and healthiest dogs of type, temperament and health. This is a solid foundation to “build” on. There is little sense in repairing health issues with breeding animals, the smallest problems can take many years of breeding to “un-do”. The better plan is to breed dogs and bitches with little to no faults and be very careful to breed these animals to equal partners or mates that will add more of what it is you seek. That being done, the next key issue is what to feed these prize dogs. It is very tempting to just rely on purchasing commercially prepared diets sold in pet stores and grocery stores. This is the “easy” method and so the “lazy” method. Comparable to feeding yourself or your family “fast food/ take out/ airplane food”. You can survive on these foods but you will not “thrive” from consuming them. This holds true for the commercial dog diets. Nothing poured from a bag or scooped from a can will ever equal a healthy raw diet you can learn to prepare for your pet! Yes, it means taking the time to educate yourself on what consists of a healthy Nutritious diet for your pet. It does mean shopping and thinking ahead, some cooking and grinding and clean up. You will need a freezer space to handle meats. There are many, many avenues for the pet owner to be educated today on raw diet or combination raw diets. When I began my quest in 1994, I had no internet to search and very few books or articles readily available to research. I was lucky to have a good friend who had been feeding her dogs a raw diet for a year or more and watched how those dogs improved in such a short time over all. Her few dogs on thyroid medication later needed no more treatments and actually recovered, living drug free after years of use! I started with the BARF diet and read Dr Billinghurst’s first book. I have listed some photos to demonstrate how and where my dogs and cat eat. I separate them each in crates, this allows individuals to eat at their own pace. After they eat, I remove their bowls (to the dish washer) and let the crew rest for at least a half hour. This gives them time to process their meal before cavorting about with each other on a full stomach. Then water is introduced. These methods have worked well for us. I am always evolving and changing what we feed. I feel variety helps produce a healthier immune system. Steffi Mullins List of foods I feed our dogs, bitches with whelp and puppies : • Chicken (all parts) • Beef (ground or stew meat) not bones (old and tough on teeth) • Turkey (all parts, cutting up large wings for pups to handle) • Lamb (mostly shank, neck bones, ribs and stew meat) • Venison (when available) • Veal (when available) • NO PORK • Liver (chicken usually a few times a month) • Chicken hearts (a few times a month) What else we add to our dog’s diet : • Powdered goats milk • Plain low fat yogurt • Honey • Wheat germ • Safflower oil • Grizzly Wild Salmon oil™ • All our girls get a half pill prenatal vitamin (human grade) • Nupro supplement • Ground oatmeal dry and mixed into yogurt • Dr Harvey’s mix (when not adding oatmeal) alternate • Raw whole egg • Canned mackerel, pink salmon or tuna (human grade) • Kale (frozen & ground up) • Berries (frozen and ground up) • Occasionally pasta • Yams (cooked and mashed) • Lentils (cooked) • Banana or kiwi (senior dogs potassium) • Dr. Billinghurst's Cert. Organic Dried Alfalfa Powder I purchase a good amount of our chicken and beef at very good prices, delivered fresh NOT frozen in cases to be divided up from: Alpine Butcher Shoppe Chelmsford, MA 01824 (978) 256-7771 I often shop at: This raw fed, organic pet food site aims to help you the pet owner, realize that the large marketing budgets that the commercial pet food companies have, are not always geared towards telling you the truth. It will also help to explain why so many pets are ill and die at 10-15 years old instead of living to a ripe, old, fulfilled age. ***Marithyme’s comment: 5 star web site! A must read and view video before you purchase your next dog food. fur + organic = Furganic.com

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