The nutritional needs of cats and dogs are not identical, but the same basic strategies work well for both. The more fresh raw food you feed, the more variety you offer and the more balanced the result. Raw bones are essential for good health, and they can be the bones of raw chicken, turkey, hen, freshly caught fish or other small animals. In addition, occasionally feed your cat the marrow from a beef marrow bone, the kind sold as soup bones, raw milk and cultured milk products, such as yogurt or kefir, raw milk cheese, goat's milk, buttermilk, cottage cheese can be fed to cats of all ages, but if they are not use to drinking milk, add lactaid or a similar milk-digesting enzyme such as prozyme as well. Begin by serving small portions of milk and increase the amount slowly. If desired, add occasional flaked whole grains such as oats or barley to the milk. Meat and bones, which should make up most of your cat's diet, can be any of the selections listed for dogs. Cut the meat into chunks so your cat can exercise his teeth and jaws, ripping into it. Cats in the wild don't eat ground meat and their domestic cousins are just as well-equipped to deal with chunky pieces or even whole hens. Of course, if your cat has the dental problems that come with eating commercial pet foods, he may not be able to rip much of anything, so smaller pieces are appropriate, no tabby cat can eat the knuckle bone of a steer, but a healthy cat can bite through all the bones of a raw hen or small chicken. Invest in the best poultry scissors you can find in order to cut the drumsticks of free-range chicken, which have far denser bones than commercially raised chickens. Try to feed bones every other day or at least twice a week

For kittens after three weeks of age supplement the mother's milk with warm, raw cow's or goats's milk if raw milk it not available, increase the digestibility of pasteurized milk with lactaid and other enzyme products, such as prozyme. De Balracli Levy encourages kittens as young as two weeks to sip tepid water from a saucer.

AFTER FOUR WEEKS

Begin feedin small amounts of tree bark gruel in milk as for puppies. Offer four small meals per day, alternating between gruel (honey and tree bark powder) in milk and flaked barley in milk every four hours. One day per week, give smaller amounts less frequently to give the digestion a chance to rest.

AFTER WEANING TO FOUR MONTHS

Offer the same breakfast, as much as the kitten will eat. At noon, feed plain milk with any flaked raw grain plus a few drops of vegetable oil (sesame, corn, sunflower, or canola oil), plus about 1 tsp of beaten raw egg, cottage chees, or buttermilk. On alternating days, add up to 1 tsp finely ground raw almonds, grated raw carrot or coconut. At 4:00 p.m. feed raw meat shredded or cut into small pieces with finely minced raw greens. Add up to 1 tsp raw ban soaked in water for additional fiber. Four hours later, repeat this dinner with up to 1 tsp shredded carrot or other vegetable in place of the bran. Add a tiny pinch of unrefined sea salt with the meat. As the kitten grows, begin feeding small bones, such as those in a chicken breast. Cut the chicken, bones and all into small pieces. Feed a variety of different meats during the week and alternate oils, greens also pured vegetables as well. If desired, add occasional food desired vitamin/mineral supplements, such as cryofood powder from standard process in highs quality power or liquid brewer's yeast or a multivitamin tablet crushed into a powder. Add a small amount, such as a few drops or a pinch, to one meal everyday or every few days.  

 In the wild, rabbits and hares feed mainly on grasses, herbs, tree bark and vegetables. In addition to fresh air, sunshine, clear water and exercise, your rabbit needs fresh foods for optimum health. Rabbit books and magazines emphasize of pelleted food made of alfalfa hay and other ingredients. They often warn never to give greens such as carrot tops, lettuce or cabbage to rabbits less than six months old because any drastic change in diet can kill them. They may be true, but not changing from a dried, processed diet can leave your rabbit in the same sad condition. If your rabbit has been fed a commercial diet, make the adjustment slowly by adding tiny amounts of greens and carrots, starting with less than 10 percent of the total. In addition, sprinkle an enzyme product like prozyme on the pelleted food to improve its digestion and assimilation also, add a pinch of unrefined sea salt for minure amounts of trace elements. Older rabbits can make the change mole quickly, but it's a good idea to continue feeding whatever they're use to while slowly changing ever to an all-raw diet. Freshly harvested herbs, grasses, tree prunnings, greens, vegetables, edible flowers and occasional seeds also nuts in the shell will keep your rabbit healthy. Grow your own alfalfa wheat grass, barley grass, buckwheat lettuce and sunflower seedlings. Grow carrots, calendula blossom, sweetpeppers, greens such as collards, chard, broccoli, de rabe and spinach in your garden. Let some carrots and other plants go to seed for your rabbit friend and offer the seeds from your watermelon, pumpkin also other foods.Gather dandelions and other wild herbs away from the air pollution of busy roadway. Always buy organically grown mixed salad greens at your market or healthfood store. If possible, plant a small garden for your rabbit and let her spend some time in it everyday harvesting whatever suits her fancy. Fresh air and sunshine are just as important to rabbits as other pets, so if you don't have a safe secure place to let your rabbit run freely. Buy a harness so he or she can explore at least part of the great outdoors while you hold the leash.

 The following are guidelines for adults dogs of most breeds. Feed two meals per day and nothing between meals. Depending on your dog's training schedule, the latter instruction may be unrealistic, but the fewer between meal snacks the better. If you feed twice a day, concentrate carbohydrates and fruit (including avocado) in the morning meal, then meat and vegetables in the evening. Supplements can be given with either meal. If your dog is exceptionally active, like working retrievers during hunting season, feed as much and as often as necessary. Quantities depend on many factors: your dog's breed, size, metabolism, exercise and work load, even the weather couch potatoes need hardly any. Large dogs need more, small dog just less. Dogs fed a natural diet are guilded by an internal appetite control that directs them to eat as much as they need and then stop, so once your dog is used to fresh, raw food, your best quide will be his or her appetite. A general rule of thumb is to feed a daily ration of 2 to 3 percent of the dog's body weight in bones and meat. In a 50 pound dog, this would be about 1 to 1-1/2 pounds of bones and meat. Start with approzimately this amount and adjust the quantity as needed.

 WEANING TO FOUR MONTHS

Breakfast:  combine raw milk or yogurt with the barley-honey mixture using roughly equal proportions of powder and milk.

Lunch: raw whole grain flakes (oats, wheat, barley, rye, or mixed flakes), soaked overnight in yogurt, carrot juice or raw milk. Before serving add 1 finely grated apple 1/2 tsp vegetable or fish oil, a pinch of unrefined sea salt and a sprinkle of prozyme or similar enzyme powder.

Late Afternoon: approximately 4 tsp raw shredded meat cut into increasingly larger pieces. Beef and other meats can be alternated with fish and chicken.

Dinner: approximately 4 tbsp raw meat with bones or a raw egg plus 1 tsp cod liver or other oil, a pinch of seaweed or kelp powder 1/2 tsp, finely minced raw green leaves and any appropriate food based vitamin/mineral supplements. Teething puppies need bones to chew on so keep them supplied with raw bones between meals. A puppy work, nourishing her body, strengthening her teeth and staying out of mischief.

AFTER FOUR MONTHS

Three meals a day, increasing the food supply as needed. After eight months, feed twice daily at noon and in the evening, feeding cereal with milk in the morning and meat in the evening. After four months, schedule one day per week for a half day (serve only water abd raw but not meaty bones form after lunch until the next morning) and once per month wake this a full day  (water and bones only). Adult dogs can go through water only one day per week.