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My boss, who is also my vet, and I had a very long discussion about food yesterday at work. He explained to me his reasonings for being wary of the prey model raw diet, mostly regarding bacteria and tapeworms. Bear in mind he is also wary of sushi for people and always teases me about deworming myself.
I take Flip (the standard poodle) to work with me every day, and he actually uses him as an example to clients of ideal weight.
He agreed with me, eventually, that if Flip stays perfect weight and doesn't have any health problems after six months of PMR, he will consider recommending it to clients. He even snapped photos of Flip's teeth, which at 10 months are sadly starting to look icky in back. Hopefully I will have awesome before/after results. He also agreed to read the books I ordered on raw diets.
He was anti-grain free food at first as well, and after seeing how much better Flip and Jack looked on it, he started recommending it to clients.
Honestly, I think most vets have so much to do and learn with diagnostic medicine, etc they don't have the time or energy to research nutrition, which is a shame. Fortunately I am happy to step in and take this on.
Fingers crossed.
I take Flip (the standard poodle) to work with me every day, and he actually uses him as an example to clients of ideal weight.
He agreed with me, eventually, that if Flip stays perfect weight and doesn't have any health problems after six months of PMR, he will consider recommending it to clients. He even snapped photos of Flip's teeth, which at 10 months are sadly starting to look icky in back. Hopefully I will have awesome before/after results. He also agreed to read the books I ordered on raw diets.
He was anti-grain free food at first as well, and after seeing how much better Flip and Jack looked on it, he started recommending it to clients.
Honestly, I think most vets have so much to do and learn with diagnostic medicine, etc they don't have the time or energy to research nutrition, which is a shame. Fortunately I am happy to step in and take this on.
Fingers crossed.