Feeding Puppies Raw & The Calcium Phosphorous Ratio - Podcast 50

09/16/19 • 5 min

For Pet's Sake: The pet wellbeing podcast

We are often asked whether it is okay to feed puppies a raw diet. Will they get the appropriate levels of nutrients they need to live a long and happy life?

Join Rowan, chief nutritional officer at Bella and Duke, where he discusses this topic, specifically the perfect ratios of calcium and phosphorous for puppies to avoid deficiencies, with Dr Nick Thompson and Dr Conor Brady. The guys explain why these ratios have come to the fore in recent years.

Learn why the ratio of calcium and phosphorous your dog is getting in their diet is not something you need to worry too much about when you feed a complete raw diet, appropriate to your dog’s digestive system, whether you have a giant, medium or toy breed.

We are often asked whether it is okay to feed puppies a raw diet. Will they get the appropriate levels of nutrients they need to live a long and happy life?

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Why you should not cook meat for your dog - podcast 49

In this week’s podcast, Rowan, our chief nutritional officer, is joined by top animal nutritionist and M.D of https://dogsfirst.ie/, Dr Conor Brady and head of the Raw Feeding Veterinary Society, Dr Nick Thompson. They discuss why highly cooked, processed meat is not good for dogs and the dangers of ultra-processed kibble.

They explain that cooking proteins under harsh temperatures and pressures denatures it, making it harder for your dog to digest. The extreme process creates cancer-causing agents such as acrylamides.

The other point to note is that the indigestible particles and proteins remain in your dog’s system, causing gut irritation, leaky gut and food intolerance, sometimes full-blown allergies to beef and chicken especially.

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Podcast 51 - The Science Behind Raw Dog Food

In this week's podcast, our Chief Nutritional Officer, Rowan Sanderson, sits down with Dr. Anna Hielm-Björkman, one of the world’s leading researchers in pet nutrition to talk all things raw dog food and the benefits of a species-appropriate diet. Dr Anna also discusses some cutting edge research being undertaken to identify the link between certain foods and canine diseases.

Dr. Hielm-Björkman laments the modern hyper-specialization of medicine—that the focus has gradually moved from the “wholeness” of the patient (for both animals and humans) down to their individual parts. As an example, one’s bad eyes could be due to a lack of carbohydrate intake; but because they’ve seen an eye doctor and not a nutritionist, the prescription becomes laser treatment or glasses instead.

Rowan and Dr.Hielm-Björkman also explain that feeding your dog a natural raw diet may help to prevent