Nature’s Calling at Cat Paw Farm

Nature’s Calling at Cat Paw Farm We are a breeder promoting personal responsibility and a return to nature.

08/15/2026
06/12/2026

🥦 More fresh vegetables. Less cancer.

In a peer-reviewed study published in JAVMA, researchers at Purdue University found that dogs🐶 eating vegetables several times per week had dramatically lower rates of bladder cancer. The more vegetables🥦🥕 dogs ate, the lower their risk appeared to be, even though the vast majority of dogs in the study were eating predominantly dry kibble. The study remains one of the most influential and widely discussed pieces of research examining diet and cancer risk in dogs.

One of the most surprising findings was that vitamin supplements did not show the same protective association as whole vegetables.

Why does that matter?

Because nutrition is more than nutrients.💊

Whole foods contain thousands of naturally occurring compounds that work together in ways we still don’t fully understand. Fiber nourishes beneficial gut bacteria. Polyphenols help regulate inflammation. Carotenoids, flavonoids, glucosinolates, and other phytochemicals support detoxification, cellular repair, immune function, and healthy aging.

Many of these compounds are absent from synthetic vitamin premixes because they aren’t classified as essential nutrients, even though they may play important roles in long-term health.

Meeting minimum nutrient requirements may prevent deficiency. But thriving may require much more than simply adding isolated synthetic nutrients to an ultra-processed diet.

Real food delivers far more than what’s listed on a nutrition label.

05/17/2026

THE PET FOOD INDUSTRY SOLD YOU A SPONGE AND CALLED IT FRESH. 🥸
Would you add water to freeze-dried strawberries and call them fresh, whole strawberries again? 🍓
Of course not. So why do we accept that logic in pet food?

Water can refill space. It cannot rewind biology.

Rehydrating freeze-dried or dehydrated food restores moisture and improves texture, but it does not recreate the food’s original cellular hydration or fresh biological state. The added liquid, whether water, broth, or milk, enters a dried, porous matrix. Broth or milk may add nutritional value, but neither can revive fresh cell pressure, intact membranes, original intracellular fluids, living enzymes, native microbes, or the full nutrient delivery system of fresh whole food.

This is where marketing often becomes misleading. 🚧

Freeze-dried and dehydrated pet foods are sometimes positioned as nutritionally equal to raw or fresh food once moisture is added back, but rehydrating is not restoration. Many of these products undergo a documented sterilization step before drying, often heated to approximately 165°F for several minutes before moisture is removed. That matters.

If the food has been sterilized, dried, packaged, and later rehydrated, it should not be confused with fresh raw food simply because the starting ingredients were once raw.

Drying alone can alter cellular structure, enzyme activity, volatile compounds, microbial ecology, delicate nutrients, and oxidation-prone fats. Add sterilization, cold-pressure processing, HPP, and the original cell matrix and biological integrity are altered even further.

So, even when the base ingredients are marketed as “raw,” the finished product is not the same as fresh, raw food. Water can make it wet again. It cannot reverse sterilization, rebuild cellular hydration, restore native microbial ecology, or reassemble the fresh-food matrix.

Fresh raw food delivers nutrition through intact moisture, living tissue structure, natural fats, enzymes, microbes, and biologically active compounds. A carefully made dried food can still have value as a convenient option, but rehydrated is not the same as raw, fresh, and whole.

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