Why Herbs? Defined as: A "plant or plant part". Valued for medicinal, savory or aromatic qualities. Once, hundreds of species of wild herbs, grasses, sedges, nuts, berries and seeds grew abundantly in vast areas of virgin wilderness throughout the planet. They were untouched by the hand of man. A large variety of these seasonal plants, sedges and other were the natural daily diet of all kinds of grazing animals and they provided the necessary nutrients that their systems needed to function to their fullest potential. The benefits of these nutrients in turn become available to wolves and other predatory animals as they consume them directly or indirectly in their prey. Today most of this native vegetation has disappeared from the earth due to man-kinds development of what was once the domain of all wild animals. As a result of modern farming methods, very few species of grasses are grown for animals to feed upon, most domestically raised ruminants diets consist of just a few different types of grasses, flora and more recently grains, resulting in the further disappearance of indigenous plant life from the food chain as we rely more and more on modern processed foods for ourselves and our animals. As a direct descendant of the wolf, your dog still has the same dietary requirements but few canine diets contain any kind of herbs or grasses. Domestic dogs, like their ancestors the wolf, can sometimes be observed chewing on grass and other plants. This may be seen as a sign of a deficiency in some essential elements once provided by those now rare or unavailable plants, although such forays into vegetarian habits usually results in regurgitation and so it may be that their consumption is exploited as a purgative. However, caution must be urged. Ingestion of certain kinds of plants may prove toxic. Timberwolf Organics has chosen specific herbs thousands of years in the and the Indian subcontinent.