The choice of food for your dog is crucial for their quality of life. A healthy intestinal flora ensures optimal digestion, a thick and shiny coat, strong bones and healthy teeth. A good food is more than just a balanced combination of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and vitamins. It is a food that is the best choice for your best pet.
Make decisions – choose food concepts. Decide whether your dog should be fed with complete food or be raw fed. Feeding with complete or ready-made food is uncomplicated, as the food already contains all the vital nutrients and vital substances. When feeding raw according to the barf concept, you prepare each meal yourself and have to pay attention to a balanced diet. Important is: while you may combine dry and wet food, barfing is a decision for life or at least for a longer period of time.
In general, the food should be adapted to the species-specific needs of the dog. Even a quick glance at a dog’s teeth shows unmistakably: they are made for meat. Canine teeth and fangs are not found in herbivores. Likewise, the dog’s intestine is optimised for the absorption of nutrients from meat, because the dog’s intestine is short – much shorter than in humans and many times shorter than in a pure herbivores. The structure of the dog’s body therefore leaves no doubt that physical well-being and lasting health can be achieved with meat as the main component of the diet. We are also talking about fresh meat and not meat flour and animal by-products. Meat flour is produced when the nutrient-rich meat juice and the natural fat content (a flavour carrier) are extracted from the fresh meat under high temperatures and high pressure. Meat flour is not tasty and is significantly less nutritious than fresh meat.
BARF: species-appropriate, but complicated. Raw feeding according to the BARF concept corresponds best to the eating habits of the wild ancestors of our domestic dogs. When you BARF, you feed raw meat and offal, poultry and bones. In addition, your dog is given different side dishes, especially raw or cooked vegetables. To prevent deficiency symptoms, round off each meal with nutritional supplements.
However, scientists at Harvard University have now discovered that heating meat makes it more digestible. The protein denatured by the heat can be digested more quickly than raw meat. This is true for both humans and animals. In addition, heating the meat kills any pathogens (germs and bacteria) that may be present, which saves the body an energy-consuming defence against infection.
That is why many dog owners opt for dry food, made out of fresh meat cooked in its own nutrient-rich meat juice, such as PLATINUM. Its texture is not like that of common dry dog food. The remaining moisture of the meat juice makes dry food chewy-soft, and reducing the meat juice enhances the meat taste and smell in a natural way. Therefore, meat juice-cooked dog food comes without flavour enhancers, attractants and odourants. The low cooking temperature also preserves the nutrients of meat and meat juice. The dog’s digestive system is made to digest meat, which is why meat juice-cooked dry dog food is excellent at converting it into energy, for the body to use. The naturally high digestibility is also shown by the fact that the dry food does not swell in the stomach, like common, extruded, cold-pressed or some baked-dry dog food. Overall, dry food made from meat juice cooking is suitable for all dog breeds and age groups (puppies, young dogs, adult dogs and old dogs).
One final note: The most expensive food is not necessarily the very best food for your dog. However, when buying food, look for a high meat content and a low grain content. Buy a smaller container first and test several types of food before you make your final decision!
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