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| I have been feeding my six dogs raw for about 2 months and have seen many benefits since switching them to the raw diet. Their coats look great, their teeth are whiter, their poops are smaller and turn to dust withing a couple of days, the ones with allergies are better, the ones that were/are overweight have begun to lose, and they have sero doggy odor. Does anyone else here feed raw?
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I feed prey model raw to my Papillon mix, and would feed it to my German Shepherd if I could afford to.
We started raw almost a year ago. Been loving it every since. Just saw the vet today, and she agreed that Treader generally seems healthier than he did last year. She doesn't support raw, but said to keep it up since it's working for Treader.
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it sounds good, except they, like us, can actually get worms from eating raw meat.... Have you seen any worms? *shudders* Dogs do do better on "human" foods than plain dog food. I'd like to have my dog eat meat, only cooked (raw meat has always scared me.  )
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Actually that is one of the myths surronding raw food, my dogs have been eating it FOREVER and have NEVER gotten worms!
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hmmm, it sounds good to me but my pets seem prone to getting worms, and I'm squeamish when it comes to parasites. lol, I bet Luna would like it though.
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Texaspup, another option is a homecooked diet, which is "people food". As with raw, you still need to know how to keep the meals balanced. I don't do homecooked, so I don't know the guidelines to that myself.
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| yeah, I would love to do homecooked, except my dad would never go for it. He freaks out at the price of Iams, even though stuff like pedigree makes her throw up. "It just happened once!" Oh well. If i had a small little dog maybe we could.
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| I have been doing raw for over a month now. And its great, the whole worm thing is a total bs to be honest. If you are using Human grade meat, and not letting it rot, or feeding the dogs on the ground outside(Where they can easily pick up anything else on the ground eat it and get worms that way..) than there should be no need to be worried about worms. There is no nasty breath, or dirty teeth that my dogs used to have on all the dry foods they used to eat. Their coat is thicker and more healthy than ever. I've had friends who had dogs with hip issues, and within a year their dog is walking again with no issues. Dogs who have had Seizures and have stopped once they were off of dry kibble. There is so many different benfits that it would be sad not to give this diet a chance. In the past dogs used to be able to live up to late teens to 20s, however over the years I believe the dry food may have helped shorten their life span along with a few other things (giving to many shots...there is even a study on cats that where they are placing the shots cancer is growing)
A lot of vets do not recommend raw food diet because they are not educated about it at all just like dog training. Vet schools are partly funded by dry dog foods, thus they are only taught very few things to push them into voicing for feeding dry kibble or as my raw food diet web group calls it the little kibble bites of death. Raw food diet does need a little bit of time to put together(If you make enough food for a month it takes 2 hours out of the whole month. I however, make a batch each day so it may take me longer) however, looking into a web group to help you switch over or let you know what the myths really are about this diet helps a lot. Even reading some books can put your mind at ease. A lot of breeders are switching over to raw food diet because they too are seeing how kibble is just not worth the health issues the dogs are getting from it.
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