Do you have a fusspot? Our freeze-dried meal balancing pet blends are all 90% or more animal protein based, with highly palatable ingredients that even the fussiest pets seem to love 🤤 don’t take our word for it! #petnutrition #petfood #rawfeedingaustralia #rawfedpets #fussydog #homemadedogfood
🤡 or, hear me out, feed cats a species appropriate diet and treat the most likely root cause. Cats are obligate carnivores who should be eating food that contains lots of water for kidney and urinary health 🥩🍗🐟🥚
This is your annual reminder that you don’t have to follow natural health protocols for your pets and avoid chemicals or “toxins” if it puts their life in danger.
I pulled a semi-engorged paralysis tick of Pippa’s head last night and am currently monitoring her for any signs of tick paralysis. Thankfully so far she seems fine, but if I hadn’t noticed it when I did, I hate to think what could have happened to my crazy, beautiful girl. She was not up to date with her preventative and I had been meaning to give it to her all week, but I kept forgetting. I also lost a chook this week, which makes me think she also may have succumbed to a tick (I use DE environmentally and the hen was very old). These guys are no joke and the weather is unseasonably warm, although it is tick season in Australia regardless of the warmth.
Do what is right for YOUR animal. I didn’t treat for ticks using chemical preventatives when I lived in a cool climate, but I do now because the risk of not doing it far outweighs the risk of doing it.
Do you use chemical tick preventatives?
‼️ RESTOCK ALERT ‼️
Wild 🦬🦘🦪 and Vital 🐟🐐🌱 Blend in both 250g and 500g are back in stock, as of …now! This means all of our bundles are also back in stock
We know you missed them in our Afterpay Day sale, so we’re extending 20% off Wild and Vital blend AND 20% off any bundle containing Wild or Vital (which is all of them) until midnight Sunday AEST. Just enter the code RESTOCK at checkout to claim the discount.
Run don’t walk! 🏃🏽
We try our best to keep your faves on the shelf, and we’re always looking for ways to improve, but the way we produce is fiddly and inefficient. It’s important to us that we continue to source and freeze-dry everything ourselves, and produce small batches to preserve nutrient integrity. Until we can figure out how to do that quicker and without compromising our values, stuff might occasionally go out of stock.
If your pet eats a limited diet and relies on one of our blends to balance it, we recommend keeping a couple of weeks on hand juuuuuuust in case 🙈
Thanks for your understanding! ✌🏼
⚡️ HALF PRICE TREATS + BONE BROTH ⚡️
We’re having a flash sale! QUICK!
We are shaking things up and we need to make space for our exciting new things.
For a seriously limited time all cow hooves, furry cow ears, tracheas, shark skin dental sticks and bone broth concentrates are 50% off.
Discount is automatic, not available with any other offer. Bone broths are exempt from free shipping. Furry goat ears not included in sale.
Have you got your Black Friday goodies yet?? Don’t miss out! Sale on this week only, 20% off everything and 25% off if you spend over $250! Free shipping over $150 🙀
Why do we think you should bail on heavily processed pet food?
☝🏼 It’s not species appropriate. Processed pet foods like kibble and wet food are typically made with more than half carbohydrate rich ingredients, like grain, legumes, starches and large amounts of fibre.
Dogs are facultative carnivores, with a digestive system almost identical to their ancestor, the wolf. Cats are obligate carnivores. Neither produce salivary amylase for the preliminary digestion of starches, nor so they possess the flat molars necessary to grind plant matter. Cats require several nutrients for survival that are only available in nature from animal tissue.
🤙🏼 The nutrients are degraded. As the name suggests, processed pet food is heavily processed. Made from denatured and rendered meat meal and bone, hydrolysed proteins and refined plant matter, often leftover from other industries. It’s then repeatedly cooked at high temperatures, extruded, sterilised, dried, sprayed with flavours and preservatives and packaged, ready to sit on the shelf for months at a time, if not longer.
This is a recipe for rancid fats, mould, destroyed nutrients, and the necessity for supplementation with dozens of synthetic vitamins and inorganic minerals.
🤟🏼 It doesn’t foster good diversity. Nutrition is more than just simple arithmetic. It’s not just a case of this many milligrams + this many milligrams = good health.
The body contains trillions of microbial cells: bacteria, viruses and fungi living in and on us. From the mouth to the gut, the immune system, the reproductive organs and the skin, the body relies on a certain synergy for health.
A diet filled with probiotics, prebiotics, digestive enzymes, antioxidants, polyphenols, natural vitamins, fatty acids, minerals, amino acids and complete proteins is more than just the sum of its parts; it’s a hive of activity that supports all of the body’s systems in harmony.
How’s your pets’ dental health? 🦷
Watch me brush my dog’s teeth and ramble about the importance of looking after your pet’s teeth, how I keep my dogs’ teeth clean and how I balance benefits with risks.
KIDDING. Let’s dispel some myths about toxic foods for dogs eh? I wouldn’t make a video saying french fries aren’t toxic, because there’s no benefit to feeding your dog french fries. But these are deeply nutritious, functional foods that your dog can benefit from in small amounts, and that we don’t need to unnecessarily panic over.
Garlic 🧄
The “study” that garlic toxicity is linked to was conducted on 4 dogs who were given the equivalent of 20 cloves of garlic per day for a kelpie sized dog, intragastrically (tube fed) for 7 days. Some markers did change, as you might expect if you ate the equivalent of nearly 100 cloves of garlic a day, but NO DOG developed hemolytic anaemia, which was the objective of the “study” and the thing we’re so often warned about. Subsequent studies have found indications that garlic is beneficial in more reasonable doses.
Hematologic changes associated with the appearance of eccentrocytes after intragastric administration of garlic extract to dogs. doi: 10.2460/ajvr.2000.61.1446
Safety and efficacy of aged garlic extract in dogs https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-018-1699-2
Avocado 🥑
This fatty fruit gets a bad rap for a compound called persin, which is mainly found in the skin, not the flesh of avocado. Nonetheless, a 6 month study on 40 dogs found “feeding a diet with up to 1.1% avocado extract was well-tolerated by adult dogs and resulted in no adverse health effects”
Tolerance and safety of an avocado-based ingredient for adult dogs https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.825.1
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Holy sh*t. An actual launch date.
For those who missed it, I sent two tonnes of meat to the freeze dryer the Monday my maternity leave started, and the next day my daughter was born nearly a month early. I literally sent the production run sheet from the bathroom floor while I was in labour. She’s nearly 5 months old and I have been organising this new range during nap time basically ever since, with the help of my INCREDIBLE team of legends (you know who you are). Yesterday we launched the new @normgetwild flavours and today I can finally announce that the new HUNDE range will be out in the world on Thursday 6 July!!!
We have so much cool stuff, I am genuinely FROTHING.
🖐🏼 500g pouches of ALL dog blends (+ 250g of dog and cat)
🦬 Hypoallergenic WILD blend for dogs AND cats
🌻 Budget friendly VITAL blend for ratio diets
🦩 EMU oil
🦠 Fermented probiotic bone broth concentrate
🍄 Medicinal mushroom bone broth concentrate
🐐 My 3 favourite natural chews
But I need your help to launch it! I am looking for a handful of accounts that are as passionate about real food as I am, who want to collaborate and get this sh*t out into the world with a bang next Thursday 💥 Drop a tag or a comment below if this is you or someone you know 👇🏼
I almost ditched this whole video because it just went from bad to worse, but instead I decided to use it as a teaching moment, and to show that you don’t need to be perfect, ever really, but certainly not always.
The reason I decided to share this frankly pretty disgusting video is to show how dogs eat. Because, as gross as this is, it’s totally normal. Tex is a thorough chewer who I trust implicitly with bones. You can see in this video that he is swallowing bits of duck as he chews it, so this head is partially down his gullet and partially in his mouth. When he can’t manoeuvre it in a way that allows him to chew it sufficiently to swallow the last bit, he brings it back up instead so he can chew it a bit more. He’s not actually vomiting, he’s regurgitating. He’s not choking, but rather this is a protective action to prevent choking.
It’s not impossible for dogs to choke, but they are physically designed to eat like this and, while it can be nerve wracking if this is new to you, hopefully this provides a little bit of comfort.
I will add that this was probably not helped by the amount of liquid I fed him, which was a mistake and one I wouldn’t normally make. I was looking for something interesting to share and just didn’t think that eating with a tummy full of liquid wouldn’t feel very nice. It also isn’t great for digestion. I often add water, bone broth or freakshake to my dogs’ meals, but usually only maybe half a cup and typically in boneless meals that are soupy and eaten slowly. But I’m a tired human and I make silly mistakes like everyone else 🙃
