Lots of people out there have critters who they’ve been told are “allergic” to certain foods. Literally hundreds have told been told by  their vet, or an allergy “specialist”  that their pet was allergic to corn, wheat, rice, or even meat. Partly I find it funny, considering that I don't know of any nature specialist who has found wolves or bobcats running around with meat and grain allergies. However, there is a very good answer to these problems -- and it isn't lamb and rice.

Lamb and rice is what a conventional vet will put a dog on when they think they have an allergy problem. That's because lamb and rice are basically the two most bland and easy-to-digest foods out there. It’s an avoidance solution where the dog is limited to only a couple of things to eat for the rest of its live. The holistic view of course is to look at the allergy, and find out why it’s there. 

From what we know, dogs, and some cats, typically do not naturally produce the correct enzymes to break down certain foods, like wheat and corn. When you take a feed-quality source of wheat and corn, and then cook and process the heck out of it -- the naturally-occurring enzymes in the corn and wheat are destroyed, leaving the dog’s digestive system on its own to attempt to break those foods down. Without that natural enzyme, a lot of dogs will have a problem trying to do this, which typically manifests itself with dry skin, sores, diarrhea, and other problems. However, if you feed human-quality grains, and you leave them raw, the enzyme will remain intact, and there will be no allergy to the corn and wheat.  So let's face facts, it's the preparation of the dog food that creates the allergies.

Have you ever seen an oven in the wild?? 

Obviously the answer is ‘no,’ but that certainly doesn’t seem to make it an easy concept for most folks to understand. After all, it seems that most pets in this country eat cooked food.

Commercial food companies make processed, cooked, pelletized, and preserved pet foods in the form of tiny pellets and canned mishmash that we’re told are perfectly “natural” for pets to eat. 

Hundreds of dogs and cats go to the vet, time after time, displaying variations of a mysterious illness. Sometimes it manifested itself in other ways. Some animals had allergies, cancer, some had hip displaysia, some F.U.S., leukemia, kidney failure, liver disease, and so on, and so on, and so on. Why are our critters suffering from so many chronic and seemingly incurable illnesses? Soon it became clear that a major contributor to these problems was in fact diet. We had been feeding these dogs and cats pelletized, processed pet foods (made of horribly suspect ingredients in many cases) for around 50 years (which was around the time that corporate America figured out that they could profit from the thrown-away waste and by-products by turning it into “pet food”) and it was finally catching up to us. These pets were meant to eat as they would in the wild. They needed fresh, raw foods, that still contained vital enzymes, nutrients, and trace minerals. They needed their owners to take the time to make up fresh food, rather than relying on simply tearing open a bag and pouring its contents into a bowl.