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Trapper’s Way:
A Raw Food Born of a Desire to Heal
began to think there had to be a better, more natural way to help her dog along the path to good health. After all, the antibiotic treatments for Trapper’s ear infec- tions, which were yeast-based, only served to cause more yeast growth. “Trapper’s like our child,” says Haupt, a Bergen County resident. “I was deter-
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mined to help him and started doing some research.” Since her own vet admitted he lacked the background to know if Trapper’s problems were food-related, he referred her to a nutritional vet, who suggested she feed Trapper a raw food diet. “I was really put off by this,” said Haupt. The transition from dry food to raw food
is often a difficult one for a dog owner to make, and it was no less so for Haupt, who made the change gradually. “I started cooking for him, but he was not doing much better. Thinking back on it, he may have actually been detoxing when I started the switch from packaged dry foods to fresh cooked foods. He was doing marginally better, but he still wasn’t well.” Haupt started cooking the food less and less to achieve a more raw state: “I got to a point where I was cooking it so little that I finally went to raw,” she said, realizing the inevitability of her efforts. But those efforts paid off. Within four to six weeks of transitioning Trapper to
a raw diet, Haupt noticed real change. “His bad breath was gone, his coat became smoother, and his bowel movements improved.” Haupt kept thinking about what animals do in the wild, while continuing to learn as much as she could about the health benefits of raw diets. She purchased an industrial grinder and started grind- ing an entire chicken. (Note: Cooked bones should not be consumed by dogs; they can splinter in the intestines. Raw bones, chicken bones in particular, are easily digested and provide needed fiber.) Trapper not only loved his raw food diet, but within eight months, his ear
infections had disappeared. And happily, for Haupt, Trapper’s only vet appoint- ments were wellness visits. After such a remarkable change, Haupt’s husband, Don, remarked, “Wouldn’t it be great if we could make a living doing this?”
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When Kathy Haupt was laid off
from her job, her husband’s remark took on a new and deeper meaning: “It was now or never,” she said. She started researching and contacting sup- pliers and, in March 2009, registered her product, Trapper’s Way, Frozen Natural Raw Food for Dogs, now car- ried by more than twenty pet stores in New Jersey and New York. Haupt uses only human-grade, unprocessed, additive-free ingredients, purchasing them from a restaurant supply house. She says, “My goal is to have enough volume so that I can start purchasing from local farmers.” In addition to raw chicken or beef, each recipe contains two vegetables, one fruit, and an entire egg, including the shell, which provides added calcium. For those who are interesting in
switching their dogs to a raw diet, Haupt suggests a slow transition. She also believes in supplementing with probiotics during the transition, espe- cially for dogs who’ve been treated with antibiotics: “This restores the good bacteria into the intestine. It can be done with supplements or by adding natural yogurt to the food,” she says. Haupt believes that dogs fed a raw diet will be much healthier and happier.
For a list of the stores that currently carry Trapper’s Way visit trappersway.com.
Revised and reprinted with permission
from New Jersey’s Talkin’ Pets, Winter
2010.
ike many of us who share our lives with dogs, Kathy Haupt considers Trapper, her yellow Lab, a member of the family. When she found herself visiting her vet every few months to have Trapper’s ear infections treated, she
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