Raw Diet for Dogs: The Surprising Benefits for Heart, Joint, and Dental Health Concerns

Heart Health

Our food contains muscles and real vital organs, including hearts. Hearts and muscles are high in an essential amino acid called taurine, which is critical for the heart health of cats and dogs. Cats’ bodies can’t produce taurine naturally, so they depend on getting it from their diet. Taurine deficiency causes many heart issues and heart disease in cats and can lead to blindness or even death.

Dogs can produce some taurine on their own, but they benefit from having a steady source of taurine in their diet as well, for the same reasons: it promotes a strong heart and may even protect against heart disease, especially in larger breeds, possibly because they have trouble producing their taurine.

Dental Health

Tartar building up on your pet’s teeth can lead to rotten teeth, stinky breath, painful discomfort for your pal, and expensive vet bills for you. That’s why it’s important that your pet’s diet promotes healthy teeth and good oral health. A Vital Essentials raw meat diet doesn’t contain the starchy carbs common in most commercial kibbles that contribute to tartar buildup, helping to keep your pet’s teeth pearly white.

For a bad-breath-busting bonus, treat your pal to one of our Freeze-Dried Turkey Necks or Freeze-Dried Duck Necks from the VE RAW BAR. These tasty natural snacks help scrape off tartar and yuckiness from your dog or cat’s teeth and promote good circulation for healthy pink gums.

Joint Health

Your little carnivore’s natural diet in the wild would include every part of their prey, even the “miscellaneous” bits of the animal that tend to be scrapped or left out in most commercial pet foods. A raw meat diet from Vital Essentials includes all those often-overlooked but nutritionally important animal parts, such as cartilaginous tissues high in hydroxyproline. This amino acid builds strong joints and connective tissue and is especially beneficial for any aging pet or pet who has suffered a slipped hip or joint injury.

A diet rich in collagen and hydroxyproline can also help prevent such injuries from occurring in the first place or delay the onset of arthritis. For the healthiest pet food that helps address many health conditions and promote overall wellness, consider incorporating real, raw meat into your pet’s meals. 

A protein-rich raw meat diet from Vital Essentials can help alleviate your pet’s allergies, keep them at a healthy weight, maintain a stable blood glucose level and provide many other health benefits, so your pet can keep living every day to the fullest, no matter what health challenges come their way.

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