Divine Dogs. Dog Grooming and Natural Nutrition

30/04/2026

Want to give your dog or cat a highly nutritious, very yummy meal topper or treat?
Look no further than FRONTIER PETS freeze-dried Barf products.
Available from Divine Dogs
300gm bags in stock
Larger sizes by order.

20/04/2026

Excellent information

20/04/2026

Retractable leads….. my pet hate (excuse the pun).
Great article from Dr Becker

Daily walks are one of the most powerful ways to support your dog’s physical and emotional health. But they’re not without risk; one of the most overlooked and easily avoidable hazards I’ve seen in clinical practice is the use of retractable leashes. While they may seem convenient, offering dogs more freedom to explore, they can create a dangerous illusion of control. In reality, extending your dog 10–15 feet away reduces your ability to respond quickly when something unexpected happens, whether it’s a passing car, another dog, or a sudden noise.
Over the years, I’ve treated far too many injuries tied directly to retractable leashes; everything from neck strain and spinal stress in dogs to serious rope burns, trips, and falls (for dogs and people). These devices change the way dogs learn to walk, too. Instead of reinforcing calm, connected movement, they often reward pulling by giving dogs more distance when they forge ahead.
A sturdy, fixed-length leash (about 4–6 feet) paired with a well-fitted harness gives you consistent communication and control while still allowing your dog to enjoy the walk and all the sniffs that go with it. It’s one small change you can make that can dramatically reduce risk and help create calmer, more enjoyable walks for both you and your dog. Learn the leash types I recommend for maximum safety for you and your pup in my latest blog. Link in comments🐾.

19/04/2026

19/04/2026

Much needed helpful, holistic commentary from Dr Will.

18/04/2026

Yes, yes yes.

27/03/2026

Yes, yes, yes.
Contact me (Serena) for nutrition advice to change or improve your dog’s diet
0439 751588 or PM.

15/03/2026

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13/03/2026

Organic Paws / brilliant dog and cat food.
Available on order from Divine Dogs.

CATS – why we recommend feeding them less than 2% of vegetable matter if any at all.

Cats are obligate carnivores that require a species appropriate diet which includes high levels or raw animal meat, offal and bone as in prey, to avoid long term degenerative diseases such as kidney, IBD, heart disease and cancer….period.

Cats cannot synthesize many essential amino acids internally including Taurine, Cysteine, Arginine and Methionine to name a few. They therefore need a regular raw animal protein diet to break down ingested protein into these amino acids to fuel protein synthesis for growth, tissue repair, and immunity. It is very important to note here that many essential amino acids and fat-soluble nutrients are highly degraded or destroyed when cooking meat. This is why you will commonly see on many cooked and processed food packaging “Taurine added” which is a synthetic premix and a highly questionable healthy substitute.

Cats fed higher levels of vegetable matter/carbohydrates are at risk of developing impaired hepatic gluconeogenesis which basically means their liver metabolism and function is greatly affected. This in turn prevents them from being able to eliminate toxins effectively, it compromises the immune system and negatively effects many other important body processes. Basically, chronic disease in their many forms then develop.

Green Tripe, which is in all of our recipes, is the most species appropriate form of “vegetable matter/carbohydrate” we can feed our cats as it offers the partially digested or fermented remnants of grasses and grains the ruminant animal has eaten, and in turn, an easily digestively accessible form of abundant amino acids, digestive enzymes and lactic acid bacteria.

For those that are interested, there is a very well-known controlled study called “Pottengers Cats” completed over 10 years back in the 1930’s involving the health over 900 cats over 3 generations. The study involved the health comparison of cats fed a raw diet to those fed a cooked diet. The results are a very compelling illustration of the food requirements for cats to enable their long term good health. Link is below, warning it is a little graphic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C1X1Pi03zQ

13/03/2026

Another good read from Dr Conor Brady

As soon as Ralston Purina developed extruded kibble in the late 1950's, the industry (Big Pet Food teaming up with the US Dept of Agriculture who wanted to shift as much wheat and corn as possible), they knew they had struck gold.

By the early 60's, the Pet Food Institute, the mouthpiece of the pet food industry, began a campaign to get pet owners to feed more ultra-processed products to their pets.

They began funding reports concerning the ‘dangers’ of table scraps for pets.

To quote the chair for the Manufacturers Committee of the National Pet Association at the time "our biggest competitor is still table scraps.".

They had to go.

Rachel Kelly covers the entire move in her Michigan State University masters thesis. Entitled "Feeding the modern dog : an examination of the history of the commercial dog food industry and popular perceptions of canine dietary patterns" it begins:

"The commercial dog food industry in the US has grown significantly over the past century. Fifty years ago, feeding dogs "table scraps" was the norm; however, as dogs went from "pets" to "family members," the dog food industry convinced dog guardians that feeding table scraps was inappropriate. Commercial diets grew in popularity because nutritional science made dog food seem complicated; veterinarians recommended them; effective marketing convinced guardians they were ideal; and socio-economic conditions made purchasing processed dog foods highly acceptable."

No mention of a single study there showing the product's benefit, because it didn't begin with nutritional science or health concerns. The move is supported by little more than aggressive marketing and dogma.

And now, 65 years later, we are still without a single jot of evidence showing the health benefits of high-carb kibble for our beloved meat eaters. There is only evidence to the contrary.

But do you know what does need MORE evidence, according to the RCVS?

Fresh, biologically appropriate food (and table scraps - the very reason they decided to hang out with us in the first place).

Don't forget, the University of Helsinki found that simply adding 20% real food to a bowl of kibble results in significant health gains for your pet. How, if the kibble was better?!!

Let me tell you folks, scraps from your family's dinner table are significantly better than the inedible waste they use to make low-protein, cereal-based, ultra-processed, chemically preserved, crap-fat kibble.

Do not leave their nutritional fate and subsequent health in the hands of the most hated junk food companies on earth.

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REFS
Anreder, S. S. (1962, January 29). The pet industry is growing by leaps and bounds. Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly, 3, 8, 10, 12-13

Rachel's master's thesis https:// d.lib.msu. edu/etd/1416

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