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"You are what you eat."

I have applied these words to myself and my family for most of my life so It was only natural that I would want to apply them to my animals also. I have always had an awareness of feeding dogs raw meat. I have memories from way back of my mother going to the butchers and bringing home scraps of raw meat and, most disgustingly to me at my tender age, sheeps heads. I can still picture our Alsation tucking into them with great gusto.

Over the years as I read more widely on the subject, I became increasingly concerned that the dry food (kibble) diet I fed to my dogs was not at all in keeping with their needs as natural carnivores. Two "near death" experiences with bloat only served to re-inforce this growing awareness. I gradually increased the amount of raw food in their diets (one dog at a time) until finally, 2 years ago, I decided to switch entirely to raw food.

Feeding my ten Rhodesian Ridgebacks their raw diet is a joyous occasion for me. They love mealtimes and I know it is because they love the food I offer them. More importantly, they are gleaming with health. Their teeth are white (they have never required cleaning by a vet) their coats are shiny and their breath is sweet. They shed very little and they are seldom ill.

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We have been preparing raw food diets for our dogs for a considerable period of time. Finally, after many requests, we have decided to start producing a small range of specially designed raw food meals for cats and dogs which we will sell online.

You will be able to order individual meals or the "Kaskazini Diet"  containing around 1 weeks supply of food, carefully chosen to offer a balanced diet of meat, bone and other goodness for your dog and cat.

_I have composed a series of menu's that I feel offer variety (very important) and balanced nutrition for my dogs. I wanted to keep their food as natural and as authentic as possible to mimic the kind of diet they would have in the wild. This also meant varying the food to give them a balanced diet over the course of a week.

After much research I decided to supplement my menus with a limited range of additional ingredients (salmon oil - because, sadly, most meat raised in the USA today is not pasture raised (fed on grass) and is lacking in important Omega 3's, the best kelp available (sourced from Iceland), and a small percentage of vegetables mainly for medicinal holistic reasons. These include pumpkin, apples, garlic and spirulina - for more information on what they contribute go here)

There are many articles on the benefits of a raw diet. I will post some of them on this site and I encourage you to read through them. There is no denying our dogs are carnivores, their anatomy and physiology is designed to rip, tear and digest raw meat and bones and not to eat dry kibble on a daily basis for years and years.

It seems self evident that taking a wide range of ingredients and baking them at high temperature into kibble, which then has to be "topped up" with additional nutritional supplements to replace those that were destroyed in the processing, produces a diet that is far away from what dogs were designed to eat. My dogs love the difference. Your dogs will too!


I have become a firm believer in the goodness of raw green tripe, my dogs love it and it features in my recipes