Munsterlander Notes

FEEDING - Couple of sites that might be useful for those thinking about feeding natural - www.belamba.co.uk takes you to Marcelle King who has Afghans - and has some interesting points about natural feeding (she has kindly given permission to use some of her writing in our F.O.R.U.M. mag). She has also written articles about this in Dog World.

Dr. Ian Billinghurst's book "The Barf Diet" makes an interesting read - but I must admit although I feed "natural", I have not followed his guidelines 100%. The biscuit I use is Natural Choice "Wholebake" which is an holistic health meal and their website is www.holisticfeeds.com and the nutritional information given is 55.2% cabs. 11.3 % protein, 11.4% moisture, 3.5% total sugars, 2.7% crude fibre, 1.8% ash, 0.8% oil - it contains no artificial ingredients. Touching wood here, but my girls have been happy and healthy on this diet for a long time now, I make sure they have oily fish, add olive oil occasionally, they have natural yoghurt etc.

I must add that I hear people say how complicated and involves a lot of "messing about" - but I found once you get into the swing of it, it is so simple.

We have found that some dogs coming into Rescue have been fed a high protein complete - and a significant difference is seen once they have been changed to a natural diet - all the Rescues go out to their new homes with a diet sheet and a pack up back for their first few days supplies. Rae and I are happy to answer any questions people might have about this.
Jean.