[bendyfoot]

Personally, I don't put much stock in the high/low protein issue.

Think about it: what do carnivores eat in the wild? Meat. Meat=protein.

What do wolf cubs eat? What mom regurgitates or brings home for them. (That's meat too.) I just can't buy that protein is bad for carnivores...

What I DO think is that poor-quality grain-based protein is not good for dogs (like corn)...it's just not as available to them nutritionally.

Another poster here, Merlin'sHope, has been feeding his rescued dogs a raw meat diet for years, and they've been young, old, sick, bad kidneys, bad livers, EVERYTHING that most vets would try to make you buy a certain diet for, and all of them thrived on the meat-based diet.

FWIW, our dogs get a pretty much 95% meat and bone-based diet, including the puppy. For a young dog, she's muscly and shiny and fit as a fiddle, our vets always rave about how she looks She was fed Orijen and about 10% raw from 12 weeks up until about 3 weeks ago, when we finally switched to all raw...she's about 8-9 months old now.