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Benefits of Feeding Raw
There is a greater awareness among pet owners these days.
The areas of health and nutrition are of utmost importance in caring for your companion animal.
Through evolution, the bodies of dogs and cats have superbly adapted to maintain health on the foods that were most easily available to them in the wild. These would have been raw foods, also known as a biological diet.
It goes without saying that the foods our pets’ bodies have evolved to thrive on throughout millions of years are not the processed, grain-based, commercial foods of the last fifty years.
Look inside your dog or cat’s mouth. Their teeth are designed for tearing into flesh, not tearing into kibble.
Natural, raw foods set up and maintain healthy, natural biochemical reactions. These biochemical reactions set up a natural line of defense - a healthy immune system - that continuously fights off bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
So by restoring your pet to his natural, health-giving diet, you can restore the myriad natural biochemical reactions that give strength to his immune system. This is the “magic” that keeps pets who are fed natural diets free of many of today’s “inevitable” diseases.
Raw food is living food. It is food that has not been processed or heated above 118°C (244°F). It's food that contains the enzymes necessary for digestion as well as all the natural vitamins and minerals inherent in the specific vegetable or fruit. Raw food is probably the only basis for optimum nutrition.
Why Tollden Farms
Tollden Farms has been producing our high quality raw food since 2002. We are constantly researching nutrition, and we apply all of our knowledge to developing and producing what could be considered the best raw food available on the market today. Our quality is unsurpassed, all of our suppliers are carefully researched in order to provide your companions with the ultimate in nutrition. Our prices are comparable to a premium-priced kibble and a natural diet will help save you costs at the vet clinic. We believe that fresh is best, whether you are a dog, a cat or a human. A fresh food diet is the first step to a healthy body.
Tollden Farms believes that quality comes first. Our dinners contain only the freshest human grade proteins, and the freshest vegetables. For the vegetable dinners, we use whole cuts, and whole organs. We do not use any by-products or foods not deemed fit for human consumption. Vegetables always consist of Romaine lettuce, kale, collards, dandelion, zucchini, carrots, and sweet potato. Our vegetable dinners are made of 85% top quality protein cuts and 10% vegetables, with green leafy vegetables making up the bulk. We add cold water quality fish oil (a combination of mackerel, anchovy, and sardines) and kelp to complete the diet.
Our passion is the health of companion animals and we are proud of the quality and care that goes into each and every batch of food. Click here for a list of retail locations across Ontario where our food is available.
Our Products
Tollden Farms is proud to be Canadian owned and operated. Using a set of guidelines developed for the raw pet food industry, Tollden Farms follows these standards to ensure the integrity of the products we sell. We also use these guidelines to help establish minimum standards of safety in the production of raw pet foods. Working with the guidance of various government agencies at both the provincial and federal level, Tollden Farms expects these guidelines to improve both the quality of product and level of information provided to the consumer.
Our dinners are triple ground and come in a three formats: Meat & Vegetable Blends; Meat & Botanical Blends; or Do It Yourself (DIY) components. We've packaged Tollden Farms in a multiple of convenient sizes; 8 lb bags, portioned in ½ pound patties and 3 lb bags, portioned in ¼ pound patties.
Tollden Farms has a wide variety of protein sources and formulations so you can rotate and receive the nutrients supplied in each different product. We have beef neck, marrow and boar bones to satisfy your dog's instinctual need to chew.
If you wanted to feed a raw diet, but were put off by the preparation, our diet is the answer.
Beef & Organ
Boar & Organ
Duck
Ingredients
Double ground duck & duck bones, heart, liver; botanical blend of seeds, roots and grasses consisting of: dandelion leaves, lemon grass, parsley, burdock root, oat straw, kelp, Omega 3 old water, cold pressed fish oil (18 DHA, 12 EPA)
Rabbit
Ingredients
Double ground rabbit and rabbit bones, turkey bones, heart, liver; botanical blend of seeds, roots and grasses consisting of: dandelion leaves, lemon grass, parsley, burdock root, oat straw, kelp, Omega 3 old water, cold pressed fish oil (18 DHA, 12 EPA)
Turkey
Ingredients
Double ground turkey and turkey bones, heart, liver; botanical blend of seeds, roots and grasses consisting of: dandelion leaves, lemon grass, parsley, burdock root, oat straw, kelp, Omega 3 old water, cold pressed fish oil (18 DHA, 12 EPA)
Chicken
Ingredients
Double ground chicken and chicken bones, heart, liver; botanical blend of seeds, roots and grasses consisting of: dandelion leaves, lemon grass, parsley, burdock root, oat straw, kelp, Omega 3 old water, cold pressed fish oil (18 DHA, 12 EPA)
Lamb
Ingredients
Double ground lamb, heart, liver; botanical blend of seeds, roots and grasses consisting of: dandelion leaves, lemon grass, parsley, burdock root, oat straw, kelp, Omega 3 old water, cold pressed fish oil (18 DHA, 12 EPA), calcium carbonate
Beef
Ingredients
Double ground beef, heart, liver; botanical blend of seeds, roots and grasses consisting of: dandelion leaves, lemon grass, parsley, burdock root, oat straw, kelp, Omega 3 cold water, cold pressed fish oil (18 DHA, 12 EPA), calcium carbonate