Animal Nutrition
Nutrition is a huge part of a pet’s health and well-being. Paying attention to proper diets and limited medications helps keep the whole body balanced. We want to feed the microbes as well as the dog.

Animal Diet
Dr. Roman recommends a homemade diet of blended fresh and organic veggies combined with bite sized free-range raw meat.
- Blending is ideal to reduce the size of the fresh vegetables and fruits for easy feeding.
- The organic fruits and vegetables are blended. These can include: carrots, beets, kale, Bok Choy, celery, parsley, cilantro, broccoli, Jerusalem artichokes, zucchini, yellow squash, string beans. Fruits as apples, pears, kiwi, banana, blueberries, Papaya, pineapple, then added to a cooled cooked mixture of garbanzo beans, black beans, red beans, kidney beans, adzuki beans, mung beans and lentils that have sprouted and been soaked for 48 hours in Reverse osmosis water with asafoetida and kombu added.
- Then cooked quinoa and steel cut oats that have been soaked are added.
- Her dogs receive some deer parts from hunting season as well as deer parts spared from car accidents during mating season, which are both cleaned thoroughly. Free range deer meat and bone make up about 6% of their diet. Sometimes purchased organ meat like raw liver and gizzards are added, so that they have bacteria from animals and plants.
- Currently her pets are getting about 1/15th of the meat the earlier generations of Dr. Roman’s animals were fed.
-Her first 3 generations of donors’ diet consisted of 92% meat. As Dr. Roman grew more aware about sustainability of feeding a primarily meat-based diet, and her compassion for how many animals were needed to create her dog’s diet, she decided to reduce the amount of raw animal-based protein while still supporting their health with a fresh and organic diet.
- Occasionally her dogs get a small amount of non-GMO, plant-based kibble.
 
She recently started adding a small amount of organic canned diet for dogs by Evolution. (A good book on a healthy and ethical diets is “The clean pet food revolution”)

Exact diet:
-64 cups of gruel (blended mixture of beans, lentils, fruit and veggies and squash and sweet potatoes)
-10 lbs organic peas
-1 cup nutritional yeast
-2/3 cup of nu pro vitamin and mineral supplement with flax and kelp
-1/2 cup of Prozyme digestive enzymes
-3 ½ grams tablespoon of taurine
-3/4 cup of organic hemp oil
-1/3 cup of organic flax oil
-1/3 cup of Carlson unflavored cod liver oil
-1/3 cup of Braggs Liquid Aminos
-1 cup of Chia blend
-Cottage cheese, yogurt, goat milk
-Turmeric, Perfect Aminos, Ground organic eggshells, Green Mush, Egg

Some tips
• Using clean water filtered through reverse osmosis and alkaline, natural spring water from a well is best.
• Raw vegetables and fruit help with natural fiber in the food 
• It is also good for your pet to walk/hike in the woods and forage on grasses, wild blueberries, dead bark and rotted trees.

The dogs get protein from the combination of black bean, other beans, nutritional yeast, high quality grains like quinoa, vegetables like broccoli, egg, cottage cheese, yogurt, goat milk, and perfect amino’s. They also get a small amount of venison and bone, gizzards, and organs (liver, kidney, heart) from Oma’s Pride.
 
We want to be able to give the diverse bacterial load from the raw Food, so that the microbes that digest putrefied meat will have a food to feed on. By giving a small amount of animal protein, the microbes needed to digest putrefied meat will be supported, giving the gut a diverse bacterial load.

Fresh and frozen fruits

Fresh and organic vegetables

Fresh fruits and Blueberries

Fresh and organic vegetables

​Squash and sweet potatoes

Ethically sourced extra cuts of meat