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According to dog trainer Karen Peak, “One of the benefits with a raw meat diet is you know exactly what is going into the animal. However, a drawback is you also can end up with a malnourished pet!”
The basic premise is that the BARF diet mimics what the dog would naturally eat in the wild. This, after all, suited them just fine for thousands of years before commercial dog food companies sprang up in only the last 50 –60 years or so.
Dogs, being true omnivores, not strict carnivores like cats, would often eat the bellies of the beasts they killed, typically grazing animals that had grasses and other foliage in their guts.
So when you think about it in these terms, it totally makes sense. Let’s face it, dogs were thriving for thousands of years before Ralston Purina came along.
So the essence of this type of diet is raw meat, raw meaty bones, raw chicken necks, backs, wings, etc., mixed with ground veggies and occasional grains. Proponents often report remarkable transformations in their pets that often thrive on this type of diet.
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