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Article in Globe & Mail - Raw meat for dogs: Is the theory half baked?
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Dr. Joffe says owners should stick with kibble that is “based in good science” – brands such as Iams, Hills, Purina and Royal Canin. He has written papers in peer-reviewed veterinary journals and lectured across North America about the perils of a raw diet (including what he views as the human risk – salmonella levels in the home, and dogs eating raw meat, then licking a human’s face). I wonder if he's read about all the recalls in recent years ? I feed my cats a raw diet (homemade) and they've never been healthier.
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Dr. Joffe performed Aztec's cardiac ultrasound. He's wonderfully skilled in that department. Animal nutrition? Not so much. I prefer this article that lambastes the veterinary profession's position on raw diets: http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com...ed-raw-policy/
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What about all the recalls on commercial pet food? And not *just* recalls, but thousands of pet deaths and several human deaths as well.
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Like any diet, feeding raw requires a bit more than just tossing raw meat to your pet - it's not horribly complicated, but you do need to do your research |
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I've been feeding my cats raw for years now and the only time one of my cats has a momentary lapse in diarrhea is when somebody I'm married to gives Jasper too much kibble
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There are sadly a lot of vets who are more interested in their profits than health - a dog on vet kibble is usually more likely to come back in over and over again, where a lot of raw dogs just don't get sick. Of course they're going to say raw is a bad thing!
Or they see dogs fed raw that are fed wrong and again assume it's the whole diet. I had a lady complain up and down that her vet bills were insane - she's feeding the vet based kibbles and in constantly for ear issues with the dog. Yet won't try raw because the same vet said it was bad for her dog.... Told her it wouldn't be any worse to try raw for a while and it might just solve the problem, but of course the vet isn't going to make money on a healthy dog..... |
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My dogs never had diarrhea that looked like that dog diarrhea. The poop was pouring out of the poor dog. I never seen a dog with diarrhea like that dog had. It was bad!!
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I think the woman just feeding her dog raw chicken and that is not a balance diet. I brought my dog a beef bone as he loved to chewed and Marty just played with the bone a little . He had no interest in the bone. That was the only raw food I gave him. Marty rather chew on my leather shoes!! |
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Right, but to dismiss the entire concept of raw feeding based on this one situation which you really have no background info on or whether it's even related to the dog's diet is just silliness.
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