have you gone to vet school?
No but in all actuallity, I know more about feeding dogs a raw diet than 95% of the vets in the country and have much more nutritional training by far than they have. I have received emails from vets asking me questions about feeding raw.
you may know your dogs but you do not know the experiences others have with raw and THEIR dogs.
Believe it or not, I do. I have worked with hundreds of dogs helping them start a raw diet and helping owners work through problems they have had.
dogs are individuals and can have upsets to foods. i tried raw with my dog he got sick and had to go to the vet they ran tests on him and nothing was wrong with him his GI just couldnt handle raw..put him back on kibble he is his normal self.
Saying a dog can't handle raw is saying a cow can't handle grass. Both are built with very specific digestive systems to handle very specific foods.
you are not always right and to be honest you are the reason i rarely check this forum. you are arrogant and you dont know everything about dogs..sorry.
Yes, I pretty much am. I have been wrong a few times but I am pretty quick to correct it when I am. I have been studying, researching, and feeding dogs a raw diet for 7 years. I have sources I can go to for information who have been raw feeding multiple dogs raw for over 30 years. I have helped way over 100 dogs convert to a prey model raw diet.
I have talked to, personally met, and have had in depth in person conversations with the leaders in the raw feeding world. I don't just make this stuff up off the top of my head.
Perhaps you confuse confidence with arrogance. I do know what I'm talking about. When you fed your dog raw, if you had emailed me instead of going to the vet, he would still be eating raw.
On another subject ... I bought a 40# case of chicken quarters today from a new supplier. These were the absolute smallest quarters I have ever seen. Half the size of other quarters I have always fed. These were about 1/2lb each. If rockymtsweetie wants to email me and lets start over with her problem, I'm sure we can have her dogs thriving on a prey model raw diet. It's possible these small quarters may have a bearing on this.