Veterinarian Cost and The Increased Longivity for Pets

The first place to always start is with nutrition & that starts with what you are feeding your pets. My preliminary answer will be as species specific as you can get in a domestic setting. For canines & felines that means that meat needs to be the primary ingredient of their food. Not kibble. Kibble is not fit for anything or somebody to eat. There a couple I will recommend in the light of a reluctant pet owner not being able to stomach the idea of feeding raw meat to their dog or cat, but I will say that as long as you adhere to kibble your pets will experience the issues associated with food that their bodies weren't designed to digest.

Okay, so let's start with what preventative, natural, holistic care means with a definition of the words holistic, preventative & natural which I obtained from my American Heritage Dictionary: one. Holistic: ...2) emphasizing the importance of the whole & the interdependence of its parts. two. Natural: one) present in or produced by nature; not artificial or man-made; three) pertaining to or produced solely by nature or the expected order of things three. Preventive: one) designed or used to prevent or hinder; acting as an obstacle; precautionary. two) Thwarting or warding off disease or disease. When they put all these definitions together: the whole of the parts working interdependently, without artificial ingredients or synthetics, in the natural order of things you will then ward off disease or disease! Now that they have the definition of natural pet care in place, let's go deeper in to the how to do this & thereby lowering the costs of your pet care & increase the longevity of your pets lives.

There's plenty of different forms of feeding natural for example in canines you can select a B.A.R.F. diet which translates to Biologically Appropriate Raw Food & can also stand for Bones & Raw Food. This diet consists of all raw meats, veggies, dairy products, & nuts. Some adhere to strictly feeding raw meat. Some to a cooked diet of meat & vegetables. I think that you have got to choose what will work in your household & do that & any of these, including the cooked diet is much better than any type of a kibble diet. Think of animals in the wild - they do not get kibble or pellets. Our domestic pets don't need those things either!

I feed my dog a cooked meat diet along with a natural whole food liquid supplement. I also use essential oils to thwart parasites & help with the pain in his forelegs. They came to us as a abused, starved, neglected  five month elderly puppy. Through trial & error we have found what keeps him healthy, strong & happy & they is natural. They do homeopathic for heartworm prevention. They actually runs with me & historically his breed is not a walking breed - or so it is thought! So you also need to include some precautionary nutrition along with natural feeding. For horses you always need to be concerned with worms but there's natural ways like using food grade (ONLY use food grade) diatomaceous earth -this also works well in felines, canines & other warm-blooded animals but I prefer to make use of essential oils in my dog.