In a recent entry of this Ocean Omega Notes Blog I have mentioned the start of an informative pet healthcare message board that I am a co author of with one of my nearest and dearest friends and OO clients, Barbara Sanders of Howling Acres. I have received many inquiries at our OO website, both from existing customers and visitors searching our website for advice on creating their own pet food diets in lieu of last SPRINGS PET FOOD CONTAMINATION RECALL DEBOCLE. I have included a direct quote from Barbara, posted earlier today on our afore mentioned Animal Partners Message Board

Here is Barbaras Direct Quotation regarding the diet:

Ok here goes Wild Diet
Organic beef, venison, chicken, bison,rabbit or goat or any like meat that is available in your location. Organ meats should be added whenever possible, liver and such. Pork must be added to venison as there is no fat in venison. There are no hormones in the meats I feed as everything I can get my hands on is free range or I do not eat it or feed it. It does take some doing. We are lucky here getting more local farmers and its not cheap but in the long run I do not have vet bills. If you sweet talk your local hunt clubs you can get venison that they do not use. They usually keep only the choice cuts.

I grind the meats (I have a heavy duty grinder) and add, sweet potatoes (never white) carrots, and any veggies available,(none of the nightshade family) brewers yeast, flaxseed meal, garlic, cider vinegar,no salt, Omega 3 fish oil, eggs (shells and all or you can grind the shells to a powder and add that) organic brown rice,(white rice has no nutritional value) string beans, squash,(you can use frozen out of season) and cut up apples. Do not grind apples or they will make a mush that plugs your grinder. This is kind of a melange of stuff but its a bit like what wild wolves eat when they make a kill. The first thing they do is eat the organs and then the stomach contents. Then they let the meat ferment a few days and come back to the kill and eat the meat and then the bones. To this diet I add raw meaty bones a couple of times a week. I also make my own yogurt( I don't think wolves get that)(recipe if you want it) and they get that for breakfast twice a week along with more eggs (I have my own chickens). Its kind of a common sense diet keeping them healthy and happy. I also feed fish at least once a week and fish oil every day.
This is a raw diet, nothing cooked. It takes some doing as I have nine 100lb dogos with hearty appetites. I have a dog freezer in the kennel. They have music but are not allowed to watch tv, too much violence.

Keep in mind wild animals do not eat every day so you can fast your dogs every few days if you like. Sometimes I do.

You will get controversial comments about omnivores and carnivores. I will not debate that.

This is what works for me. I do supplement with some dry food as a base because I cannot always have enough food on hand to keep up. I use Blackwood 5000 which is a catfish based food. I have to cheat sometimes.

I also use diatomaceous earth three days a month for fleas, ticks, heartworm and general parasites. I do not use any toxic poisons or chemicals on my dogs.

I DRIVE MY VETS NUTS!!!!!