What is the BARF diet?

BARF stands for "Biologically Appropriate Raw Foods", or "Bones And Raw Foods". It's not a pretty word, and has been replaced by some with phrases such as:

• species appropriate diet
• raw diet
• raw feeding
• all natural diet
• ancestral diet

Even the "Species Appropriate Diet" does not lend itself to a pleasant acronym, becoming SAD. We at Sheriff Tom and Posse Pals tend to prefer the term "ancestral diet".

When people speak of the BARF diet, ancestral diet, or any of it's forms, they are almost always speaking of a RAW diet.