What is The BARF Diet?The BARF (Bones and Raw Food) Diet is the diet that
reacquaints the domesticated relative of the wolf, the dog, with the diet their body was designed to maintain homeostasis with. Go on..Dogs are carnivores, just like their genetically similar relative, the wolf. Carnivores are animals that obtain energy by consuming the flesh and meat of other animals.
But doesn't raw meat contain bacteria?Yes, but the harmful bacteria you're thinking of are introduced to raw meat through the modern practices of processing meat by humans.
Even still, dogs have a stomach acid that is roughly 20x more acidic than that of humans. Evolution has long since addressed the problem of possible contaminated meat. learn more.. |
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