Ketogenic Diet for Dogs
Common Sense Disease Prevention

A ' Ketogenic Diet ' for dogs is a trendy phrase these days, but there is sound reasoning behind this keto diet idea. I have to tell you honestly though, it makes me laugh that people and vets are only just figuring this out now.


Ketogenic diet for dogsThis bowl contains a keto diet made up of meat bones and organs...chicken with skin, beef liver, a raw egg with shell and raw green tripe.

Hasn't anyone been paying attention to what dogs eat for the last millions of years. Hello? Anybody there?


I laugh, not because it's funny, but because it's obvious. Mother Nature has been providing such a diet for wild dogs since the beginning of time. She provides meat/bones/organs in the form of the prey animal.


Since you most likely won't be throwing a deer carcass off the front porch, it would be a good idea to observe the food in the picture above. Look at it closely. What do you see? Meat, bones, organ meat, some green tripe ( the grey stuff ) and a raw egg. You will also notice that there are no vegetables or fruit in the bowl.





Dogs are carnivores not omnivores, and so have no dietary need for carbohydrates in the form of plant food, at all. What they do need, is the predigested stomach contents ( green tripe ) of the herbivore prey animal.

Herbivores eat plants and grasses. This is the plant food that the deer would eat, for example. The deer's stomach has already broken down and predigested the plants into a form of food that the carnivore ( wolves, coyotes, dogs ) can efficiently digest and use.

This is how Mother Nature authentically serves up plant food to carnivorous canids. There are no grains, carrots, sweet potatoes, peas, green beans, pumpkin, apples, banana, blueberries or any other type of carbohydrate food commonly found in dog food, commercial or raw.


A Low Inflammation Keto Diet
As Cancer Treatment Nutrition For Dogs

The last century has produced a ton of research showing that people, as well as dogs and cats, will benefit from eating a low carbohydrate diet. This research is particularly notable as it regards people with cancer and cancer in dogs.

This becomes of paramount importance when dealing with the ultimate inflammatory disease, cancer. Cancer cells need glucose to thrive. The theory is, that if you eliminate the most available source of glucose from carbohydrates which convert to sugars, you will starve the cancer cells, while the rest of the body will thrive on glucose created mostly from fats and proteins. Makes sense to me!

It is well known that cancer cells feed preferentially on glucose as a source of energy, but malignant cancer cells do not have the ability to burn fat for energy. Also, protein must first be processed through the liver and converted into glucose, before cancer cells can use it as food. So quite obviously, when carbohydrates are reduced and/or eliminated from the diet, it becomes very hard for cancer cells to feed and thrive.


Here's Why a Ketogenic Diet for Dogs
Works for Improving Health

The main reasoning behind the keto diet is to force the body to burn fats and protein for energy instead of carbohydrates ( sugars ). The main point is to eliminate carbohydrates from your dog's diet, especially if you are working to overcome a dog health challenge of any kind. A low inflammation keto diet as described here, will help to prevent almost any dog health problem before it starts.

A ketogenic diet will also work as a weight loss plan, if your dog is overweight, This will help to reset metabolism. An intermittent fasting and keto diet for  dogs often works for slimming down when other types of special calorie reduced and weight loss diet foods for dogs have failed. As always, Mother Nature knows best!


 A Ketogenic Diet Plan for Dogs
Works Like This

A natural, historically accurate evolutionary diet for dogs like this, provides...

  • protein in the 25 - 80% range 
  • fat in the 20 - 75% range

Most pet dogs have spent their entire lives eating a diet that provides both protein and fats at the lower end of these percentage ranges, or even lower. 

So implementing a ketogenic diet works best when protein and fat percentages are changed and introduced slowly, so as not to overload the pancreas, gallbladder and other digestive processes.

Current research information on ketogenic diets suggests:

  • protein at the lower end at 25%,
  • fat at the high end at 75%
  • carbs at a negligible 2 - 5%

Because cancer is considered an ' inflammatory ' disease, but also for general health reasons and prevention, the choice of meats is usually restricted to

  • mostly ' white ' meats such as free range chicken and turkey with skin and fat, rabbit, venison including bone
  • smaller amounts of ' red ' meat such as range fed beef or bison with natural bone included
  • green tripe from ruminant animals such as cows, sheep, goats, buffalo, deer, elk
  • organ meats, offal
  • free range eggs
  • fatty cold water ocean fish such as sardines, mackerel and wild caught salmon
  • appropriate nutritional health supplements

I've Been Feeding a Keto Diet for Dogs
Long Before the Trend


Please consider a medium to high protein, high fat, low carbohydrate diet for your dog. For many years, long before the keto trend became popular, I've been feeding a raw food diet for dogs that closely replicates these proven diet guidelines. Why? Because it just makes sense. Mother Nature knows best, and time has proven me right.

A ketogenic diet is the best thing you could do for your beloved pet on a daily basis. Please don't wait for cancer to appear. Cancer is the number one killer of dogs today. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

Even if you don't feel you can, or don't want to feed a raw keto based diet for your dog, you can still come very keto close by feeding the best dry dog food.


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