Raw feeding cats and dogs – interesting and useful books
‘Outside of a dog,’ advised Groucho Marx, ‘a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.’ Quite where that leaves books about dogs’ insides...
The Honey’s Blog
Useful, interesting and entertaining articles about dogs
A few words about something no one likes to mention
There’s no point in beating about the bush: this article is about your dog’s poo. Why? Because it is an important indicator of your dog’s health.
A simple but effective feeding plan for adult dogs
Switching a dog to a natural diet couldn’t be simpler and if you are concerned that raw feeding will be complicated, time-consuming, risky or expensive please put such thoughts right...
The mysteries of canine digestion revealed
The bond between humans and dogs is so close that it is easy to forget that, being different species, we have markedly different digestive systems. Dogs actually have the same...
What dogs eat (and don’t eat) in the wild
Every species should eat a biologically appropriate diet, in other words what they would eat in the wild or as close to what they would eat in the wild as...
A feeding plan for mums and puppies
Bitches fed on a well-balanced, raw food diet are more fertile, enjoy easier pregnancies and produce healthier puppies. The puppies themselves, if raised on raw food, grow into healthier dogs...
Why I feed raw
It’s easy to forget – given how divorced from the natural world most people are – but humans belong to the animal kingdom. We have evolved, developing a completely different...
A short guide to supplementation
Supplements for pets. Wonderful cure? Potentially damaging? A complete waste of time? Well, of course, the answer is all three. They can be life changing in certain situations, wasteful, or,...
Why dogs love bones
The connection between dogs and bones goes back to ancient times. In some translations of Aesop’s The Dog and Its Reflection, written over two and a half thousand years ago,...
Fussy Eating in Dogs
I wouldn’t necessarily define George my German Shepherd as a fussy eater but when he was our only dog, many moons ago, he would be super-excited for his bowl of...
Expert opinion: wild venison
Honey’s has joined the British Deer Society (BDS), a charity whose purpose is make a difference for deer in the UK through education, awareness raising, campaigning, advocacy, monitoring, best practice...
Why dogs need vegetables
One of the questions I am often askes is why so many of our recipes contain vegetables. I should probably begin by explaining that all our formulas are complete and...
