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Cooked vs Raw Meaty Bones

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Jan 29, 2017
3 min

Cooked vs Raw Meaty Bones

Cooked Bones Never, never, never feed cooked bones to your pet. Cooked bones are more brittle than raw bones and can splinter when your pet eats them and perforate their intestinal tract. They can also blunt your pet’s teeth after regular chewing, or can even cause broken teeth. Cooked bones are harder to digest due to the collagen becoming denatured during the cooking process, (Lazarus, 1999). In addition to being dangerous to a pet’s health the cooking process causes bone

Enzymes

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Jan 29, 2017
3 min

Enzymes

Enzymes are proteins that are produced by all living organisms including animals and plants and are essential for every chemical reaction in the body. There are three main groups of enzymes: Digestive enzymes are produced by the body to breakdown food and release its nutrients for absorption and use by the body. For example, saliva contains enzymes that begin the breakdown of food in the mouth, the stomach adds enzymes to ingested food while the pancreas is a major producer o

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