I remember from the human raw omnivore discussions that some of the human practitioners initially got interested in a raw omnivore diet for themselves as they were encouraged by the fantastic results they got with the healing of their own pets.
In this example excerpt from a discussion forum, a cat pet owner is sharing her success with curing her cat’s bleeding colitis:
Posted by maureen1953 on
Sun, Nov 12, 06 at 1:07I have been converted. Do any of you cat lovers out there feed your cat a raw meat diet? Cats are true carnivores. Their dietary systems work best digesting raw meat, like they get in the wild. (mice, moles, etc. ) We have two cats who were fed high quality dry food with occasional canned food.
One developed a severe case of colitis, with bloody stools, blood clots in the litter box, obvious discomfort to her. We tried every different type of cat food imaginable, no improvement. After the vet told us she would probably have to be on steroids for the rest of her life, I looked up alternate diets for cats who have colitis, and found a website by a vet that advocated a raw meat diet. We followed the recipe, started the diet, and within 24 hrs (no kidding) she stopped bleeding and hasn’t had a problem since. She is healthier now than ever before, beautiful coat, more active and playful. Her brother, had an obesity problem at 22 lbs eating dry food. We put him on the raw meat diet and he has lost 7 lbs, is healthy and frisky. They both love it. It worked for us. Anyone else doing it?
The original discussion in 2006 can be seen at http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/petdebate/msg110107055587.html
The simple logic they say is that cats are a raw carnivorous species. It is species appropriate for them to be given raw meats and organs and bones… the entire animal. Cats are hunters and they must be fed like the hunters they are. This is species appropriate feeding.
Maybe this should tweak your curiosity about how beneficial this may be for omnivorous pet dogs.
What I’d like you to be more curious about is what is the species appropriate diet for humans? What illnesses would you like to get rid of? Would you like to feel young, healthy, and drug free?
Check out www.rawpaleodiet.com, a raw omnivorous diet may be the species appropriate diet for you.
I have read similar information online before. As you say, return animals back to their natural diets and a lot of the health issue just slip away. Unfortunately too many vested interest (vets, pet food companies) mean that this simple information will never be widely distributed or will be treated as old wives tales. But it makes perfect sense.
And it also would probably make a lot of sense for us too. I am trying to cut down on refined foods myself. Funny that a lot of the time we get told to cut down on how much meat we eat and how bad it is for us. But in many parts of the world where there are nomads that live in harsh climates, they survive on nothing more than meat and milk, and they get most of their nutrients from those, with no visible ill effect. We need to cut down on what we eat that comes from a factory, how many of our health issue result from additives and preservatives, and things to make them go further and taste nicer.