Feeding Schedules? I also look to nature for my animals feeding schedule. Animals do not eat every single day in the wild (canines come from a natural wolf, man made the dog because of certain wanted characteristics/traits; but man has never changed the biological nature of the beast.) Simply put my dogs and cats eat raw(uncooked-no heat involved, even to dethaw the meats) at certain intervals. I have no set schedule to feeding my animals. This is called "fasting", depending on what "religion" you believe/follow we humans have a time set aside for it. In the animal kingdom fasting is called nature. This fasting is a time for the animal's body to cleanse itself, it is in the animals nature and biological make-up to do so. Today's Tuesday and my animals will not eat till tomorrow, Monday night's feeding gives them literally 36 hours to get back into tune. Even though I fed small portions to them Monday morning and evening, they did not eat since Friday at Noon. This 2-3 day period is something I do every other week, but usually do not feed my animals for 2 single days a week to allow them to fast. The fast process is a cleansing and emotion controller in humans, but to the animal it is literally the best health tune up I have seen. I have seen my own animals fight off eye infections, injuries and whatever simply by letting their bodies work naturally. I personally stopped eating 3 hours every night before bed. I noticed over the last 2 years I have been sick less and have actually kept a 30 inch waist, because my body isn't busy digesting food while I sleep and is actually cleansing my body while I sleep like Nature intended my body to do. Animals have the best recovery system to health in this world, we humans try to use drugs and whatever can make a buck such as the new thing in human/animal care. Like I wrote under the lymphoma entry, proper nutrition leads to a healthy immune system, but you have to start from the ground up. Adding the newest product to bad food products doesn't help the animal at all, yes you might feel better about doing it, but what does it do in the end, really nothing at all - the underlying issues are still there. I hope that we all learn more about our animals and their proper care to put an end to all these diseases that we have given our animals. Posted by 2.0paradox - December 21, 2010 at 9:46 am

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