Cats are obligate carnivores. This is not a preference or a dietary style, it is a biological fact baked into every system in their body. Cats cannot synthesise certain essential nutrients from plant sources. They have no metabolic pathway to convert beta-carotene into vitamin A, and require pre-formed taurine in the diet or their hearts…
Parrots · Parrot Nutrition | 4–5 min read Walk into almost any pet shop and you’ll find a wall of seed mixes. Colourful packaging, confident claims, affordable prices. For decades, seeds have been the default parrot food — and for decades, avian vets have been seeing the consequences: obesity, fatty liver disease, feather problems, chronic…
Dogs · Dog Safety | 4–5 min read “A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal.” — Proverbs 12:10 We keep these foods in our kitchens every day — familiar, healthy, completely normal parts of human life. But for your dog, some of the most common items in your home can cause serious…
By Jolandie Koen · Holistic Animal Practitioner, Pet Nutritionist & Animal Aromatherapy Specialist Have you ever stood in a pet shop staring at bags of processed food, wondering if a better way exists? It does. Holistic pet nutrition stands as the oldest, most natural approach to caring for animals, and it centres on understanding exactly…
By Jolandie Koen — Certified Pet Nutritionist & Holistic Animal Practitioner If you share your home with a parrot, you’ve probably spent more time than you’d like trying to get them to eat their vegetables. And if your bird spends most of their day flinging food off their perch and returning faithfully to the seed…
By Jolandie Koen — Certified Pet Nutritionist & Holistic Animal Practitioner If you love your dog — and I know you do — this post might make you a little uncomfortable. Not because I want it to, but because the truth about what most dogs are being fed every day deserves more honest conversation than…
By Jolandie Koen — Certified Pet Nutritionist, Animal Naturopathy Practitioner & Animal Aromatherapy Specialist I want to tell you about a conversation I had recently that changed how I thought about raw feeding education. A client of mine breeds Maine Coons. She is meticulous — her kittens are raised from birth on a species-appropriate raw…
By Jolandie Koen — Certified Pet Nutritionist & Animal Naturopathy Practitioner I want to ask you something honest. When last did you actually know — not guess, not hope — but truly know what nutrients your dog is getting from their daily food? I ask because I’ve been doing pet nutrition consultations for years, and…
By The Holistic Pet Namibia | Feline Nutrition, Cat Health | ~8 min read They eat. They sleep. They groom themselves. They come to you occasionally for attention. By every visible measure, they seem fine. And so the years pass, the bowl gets filled, and the assumption of health continues — right up until the…
By The Holistic Pet Namibia | Rabbit Farming, Rabbit Nutrition | ~10 min read There is a quiet crisis running through rabbit farming operations around the world — and most farmers do not know it is there. It does not announce itself dramatically. There is no sudden outbreak, no obvious disease, no single moment of…