Keeping Meat Fresh for Feeding Cat - Dog

If you can't get bran, you can also use some oat flakes, which are richer in nutritional value (fiber and proteins). As often as possible, you should try to give your dog meat that is still stuck onto the bone, thus motivating your dog's natural instinct to tear it off. Many of my dogs have devoured entire rabbits, and their digestive system was wholly prepared to digest them with hair, bones and all.

Animals in the wild, after having torn off their victim's meat and skin, show their unerring preference for certain organs: in first place, the intestines; after that, the eyes. Among herbivorous animals which are the habitual prey of the canine species, the intestines provide a good source of starch and semi-digested vegetables (I will delve into the topic of starch later on).

The other organs that are avidly sought after are the eyes, which carnivores are able to "pop" out very easily (Seagulls, which are partially carnivorous, always avidly look for the eyes of drowned creatures, be it humans or animals). The eye tissue is rich in salty minerals, phosphate and iodine, which is why depredators love those organs. In an article about Native Indians in the North of Canada, I read that they are aware that the tissue of the back part of the eye is extremely rich. Science has recently discovered that the retina is one of the best sources of Vitamin A.

On the other hand, teeth are never assimilated, not even as fiber, unless the animal is swallowed whole, as in the case of rabbits and other small prey; however, the teeth are expelled in the feces.