Via: Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register

Dog lover Valinda Marston of Visalia thinks there’s a time to take a pet to the veterinarian and a time to do something else.

For Marston, as for many others, the “something else” includes prevention of illness with good nutrition, along with herbal or homeopathic remedies when a pet does become ill.

Nutrition is where it all begins, for pets as well as for humans, she says.

“Nine years ago a friend asked me why I fed my dogs dog food,” Marston said. So, she started doing research. “If you find out what’s in dog food, you wouldn’t feed it to a rat. It’s really bad.”

Marston started mixing raw meat with her German shepherds’ food, then gradually ditched the dog food and now feeds them raw meat, which she buys from a supplier, with raw vegetables — mainly the pulp left over from the juices she and her husband make for themselves.

Her dogs, Konig, 9, and Dallas, 3, also get raw organic eggs, avocados and raw bones. She says the dogs are never sick.

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