Q. I want to feed my pet a ‘complete and balanced’ diet. A. People living on wartime rations were found to suffer from an incomplete and unbalanced diet, they lacked sufficient fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and milk – hence the preoccupation with the term ‘complete and balanced’. Carnivore needs are different to human dietary needs. The term ‘complete and balanced’ has been imported into discussions on animal diets, but tends to be seriously misused – instead of food types the chemical constituents, carbohydrates, proteins, etc are emphasised. Best to treat the commercially inspired notion ‘complete and balanced’ with suspicion and ensure that your pet is fed according to nature’s teaching – whole carcasses of raw meaty bones.