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From: Marie Schatz
Date: 2002-03-27 18:09:00 UTC
Subject: raw food

For those of you who don't particularly feel like raising their own mice, or
buying meat grinders and cleavers and splattering chicken goo all over your
kitchen there are apparently places (or at least one place) you can buy a
simulation of a raw food diet.

There are a lot of people, as you may well know, that feed dogs a
"BARF" diet; Bones and Raw Food, from a book by an Australian vet named Dr.
Billinghurst(?)
I hear a lot about it on the dog lists I'm on but I'd never seen anyone
selling any kind of raw formula, you
had to buy all the chicken parts, kelp, vitamens, veggies and do it
yourself.
(BilJac sells some sort of frozen meat or something for dogs but that's all
I'd heard about) till yesterday
on one of the dog lists - someone posts a URL - I go to that url and lo and
behold not only do they make
a dog formula but one they have a formula for "cats/ferrets". Different
flavors beef, chicken, rabbit and lamb
(no lamb for cats/ferrets). It is advertised as having ground bones, egg
shells etc.
I have not tried it, only know that one person on the breed rescue list I'm
on uses it and likes it.
It sounds a lot like Church's chicken gravy (Bob Church that is:)

My ferrets won't even eat gerber food, anytype of duck soup etc. I despair
of the day when they'll need it. I may give it a whirl for the dog.

If you want the url email me .

Mary

"Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other
nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,"
Henry Beston