What I'm about

My name is Pat, I've been into pet nutrition for a very long time.  I started feeding raw to my dogs almost 17 years ago.  I had a Boxer that was allergic to just about every grain out there and at the time there weren't any grain free foods on the market.  It was a steep learning curve because there wasn't any information available regarding feeding your pets anything but processed food.  My vet is the one that urged me to make her food but he said he couldn't help me since he knew nothing about nutrition.  I started with beef, cutting it up and mixing millet with pureed veggies.  My "aha!" moment came when I was watching a show on wolves, they didn't eat carbohydrates, they didn't eat veggies, they ate bone in meats i.e. rabbit, foul, rodents.  I totally changed how I approached my dogs diet.  I didn't know it at the time but the feeding philosophy would come to be known as "the whole prey model".  Since I started down this road we have had 10 personal dogs, many fosters and our cats eating this way.  I've had foster pups as young as 4 weeks and dogs fed the lowest grade dry food imaginable go straight on to raw.  It's my passion and I want to spread the word even further than it has already spread.  Raw isn't as unusual as it used to be but there is still a lot of scare tactic information out there regarding it.

I have a website that has a lot of information on it.  If you have any interest in feeding raw or have questions about where to begin, you will find all of it there.