I like how she put everything into charts and what not...and of course her results are favorable.

But I don't understand the goat milk and what's Answers raw? Is that a premade?

 

Answers Raw is a commercial/pre-made raw food.

Answers Raw Pet Food Company
From their website:
90% meat, organs and ground bone, 10% whole food

Ingredients from their chicken formula for dogs:
Chicken, chicken heart, chicken liver, ground chicken bone, chicken eggs, carrots, green beans, yellow squash, montmorillonite, cultured whey, sardine oil, anchovy oil, parsley, sea salt, vitamin E supplement.

 

Yeah, they're one of the best, if not best, pre-mades in my opinion. They have a rating scale on how well-cared for the animals in the food are, and they also don't use HPP or anything. All the animals are at least pasture-raised, NO GMO food, and cows grass-fed. I researched it when I was low on raw and needed something in a hurry. They have a "straight" formula that's just animal:

Answers Raw Pet Food Company: Straight

Also, I give my cat the raw goat's milk and her stool is just fabulous since, tiny! And her fur has gotten softer. It's basically a probiotic. She eats canned food so I need to get some good bacteria in her somehow Raw milk is great for animals in my experience. My dogs love and thrive on raw kefir!

 

Interesting! THank you for posting this

 

Sheltielover do you make your own kefir? I'm looking into this.

 

I'm really enjoying reading through her "Does Raw Pet Food Warrant a Unique Set of Nutrient Requirements?" This part is extremely interesting to me.

 

Stool weight is relevant why? Never heard of humans determining their health status by weighing their poop. Strange

 

It just proves that they are using more of the raw food vs kibble. Also, I for one would rather pick up a smallish poop than a huge one!

 

But, you also don't want giant poops because it means they aren't digesting what they are eating.

 

Correct, but of that "pile" parts come from sub-par production, sub-par ingredients, wrong food for that individual etc. Other parts are there by design to bind water in correct amounts and move things along. The *volume* you see from a dog on a (commercial) food correct for him/her is mostly water. In recent years more waste comes from functional NFE ingredients imo.

 

No guys. Raw have a lot going for it in terms of nutrition and assimilation but waste does not necessarily say anything about health. Waste is a metric of digestibility, uptake and assimilation of *what is fed*, not of *what is not fed*. Not health. You can add functional ingredients that are not supposed to be digested, they are there by design. Btw, this isn't really related to kibble, it is just as true for barf and home cooking. I have in the past adjusted many raw fed dogs with tiny poops but that wasn't all that healthy, and certainly did not perform according to our needs.

 

Monster, the ingredients ARE what supply the nutrients, kibble or raw.

 

I think what others are saying is you want a resonable medium, giant poops are not necessarily good and tiny poops are not necessarily good...

 

I think the poop thing just nit picking and distracting from the point of this study. :biggrin: