Thank you. I had been on that site. It certainly
sounds bad. And we all feel horrible for the pain and suffering of both the owners and their dogs. But, to play devil's advocate, I keep reading things like:
“I’m not sure it was the Canidae” ...
“I suspect the Canidae food (for whatever reason) triggered this illness” ...
“sickens me to think that the food that I've been feeding her may have caused all this”
The reality is that our current dog (when he was a puppy) and our last dog did quite poorly on the old formula of Canidae. I recently tried the new one, and we're on the 3rd large bag. He is doing quite well with it...
We rotate bags of Canidae with California Natural. The
only reason I hesitate to stop with the Canidae, is that I think it's important to change foods. Ideally, I'd like to rotate with 3 different foods. Having tried most of the other "top brands", these 2 are the only ones which have worked well for our particular dog thus far.
If need be, I'm certainly prepared to eliminate the Canidae and, if necessary, to cut back to a single food. If so, it would be good to know that it was done because of real evidence, and not simply conjecture and anecdote.
As I don't foresee any scientific evidence to support the claims on either side, I suspect that conjecture and anecdote will be all that's left upon which to make a decision...
In the interim, I wish I didn't have an aversion to feeding raw.
