Dogs have been eating raw diets for thousands of years. In fact, every wild animal in the world is eating a raw diet right now. It’s only in the last 150 years that dog owners started feeding processed convenience foods to their pets. Since then, the domestic dog has seen a steady decline in both health and life expectancy.
Today, dogs share the same “diseases of civilization” that humans face. Processed food and poor-quality diet are major contributors to the man-made diseases (obesity, cancer, diabetes, allergies, digestive disorders, kidney disease, liver disease, etc.) that your dog may face.
REAL FOOD IS THE ANSWER TO THE CURRENT CANINE HEALTH CRISIS & THE KEY TO A HEALTHIER, HAPPIER AND LONGER LIFE FOR YOUR DOG.
Raw Food Diet for Cats
The raw food diet has also become popular among cats and their owners. Like dogs, the wild ancestors of cats survived on raw, whole ingredients (with a greater focus on meat, since cats are meat-eaters by necessity. Swapping processed food for a raw diet has many of the same potential health benefits for cats as it does for dogs.
The Chew Dat Foods Philosophy
When it comes to caring for your pet, the one thing you don’t want, is to take any chances on their diet. Over time raw pet foods have been supplemented with and frequently replaced by processed alternatives – often with none of the properties required for the biological needs of your beloved cat or dog.
Whether meals or treats, our philosophy is to provide you with natural, healthy, and nutritious products that are:
● Designed with the health of your dog or cat in mind
● Tasty enough to ensure your pet will love eating them
● Ideal for pets with allergies
Chew Dat Foods is a premium raw pet food company that specializes in healthier, nutrient-dense meals for dogs and cats. It provides human-grade, locally sourced ingredients, made-to-order production, and a value-driven ordering model that keeps pricing accessible while maintaining quality. The brand focuses on convenience through scheduled group pickup, free delivery in select areas, and a container reuse program that supports both affordability and sustainability. Its core value proposition is simple: deliver balanced raw nutrition for pets without the premium price tag that often comes with high-quality pet food.
Why You Should Be Feeding Your Pets Raw Food
As evidenced by looking at their teeth, cats and dogs are carnivores – meaning that they have evolved to eat meat – specifically raw meat. When we feed our pets the appropriate, balanced raw food diet we tap into what they were designed to eat for optimal health and well-being.
A minimally processed, natural, fresh diet is advantageous for any living being – including humans, and is what your cat or dog would have consumed in the wild.
Both cats and dogs have simple, short digestive tracts designed to extract nutrition from raw meat, fat and bone. To live a healthy life certain enzymes and amino acids are required – and for carnivores these can be found in a raw diet.
A balanced raw diet is most beneficial when it includes a combination of: Muscle Meats, Meats with Bone, Organs (such as liver, hearts, kidneys), Fruits and Vegetables.
Changing a pet with an existing health problem to a raw food diet can result in an improvement in condition, while healthy pets can expect to avoid common ailments to live a longer, happier and healthier life.
Raw Fed Dogs Produce Less Waste which is Better for Kidneys and Makes Pups Easier to Housetrain!
The amount of salt in dry pet food begins at 1%. This is the same salt content as salted peanuts. If there was no salt in the dry foods, the dogs would not touch the stuff.
The average labrador requires 1gram of salt per day for normal function (NRC 2006). If a labrador is fed 500g of this high salt content kibble, they are consuming 5 times their RDA of salt in every single meal. Bear in mind if we humans eat 9g of salt per day instead of 6g we die much younger…and this figure multiplies for puppies who eat far more as a percentage of their body weight. Unless dogs are spitting salt out of their noses like marine iguanas, this is very bad news for struggling kidneys. Dry food companies recognize this and so sell reduced sodium dry food for when the problem sets in, which is so nice of them, after their product rotted those kidney in the first place.
An added benefit of lower salt diets is that pups are easier to train. As you might expect, dry fed dogs drink huge amounts of water, causing higher amounts of urine.
Then there’s feces! The stool is the window of digestion. As fresh, species-appropriate pet food is easier to digest than ultra-processed pet food, it leads to improved digestion, meaning less feces. Stools from raw dog food also smell nothing like the stools from dry dog food, another little benefit.
