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Why do people feed raw?

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#1 ·
Dogs ancestors ate raw meat but for centuries dogs have become domesticated and evolved to this way of living, so their digestive system won't be able to digest this RAW food properly.

So I would like to know why you think this way of feeding is better than commercial foods?
 
#2 ·
You make ignorant statements as though they are fact, the hallmark of a troll.

Do your research.

"Domestication" is a social state, not a physiological one. Just because dogs (not all dogs BTW) have been domesticated doesn't mean their physiology suddenly evolved or changed, something that would take thousands of years. A domesticated dog's digestive tract is pretty much the same as a wolf, which is pretty much the same as it has been in canines for tens of thousands of years.

Commercial pet food has been around for less than a hundred years and was developed for two reasons. Convenience to the user and profit for the manufacturer. Its existence has nothing to do with any evolutionary change in a dog's digestive system.

Now please go troll somewhere else.
 
#3 ·
Humans have been cooking food for a long time but we are still able to digest food in its raw state. In fact, we are encouraged to eat foods that are minimally process as being healthier for us, providing us with more nutrients, etc that contribute to our well being. Dogs have been eating a processed diet for a lot less than we have. Dogs were originally fed the "left over" discards which included raw chunks of (often spoiled) meat or trimmed meaty bones. Human diets were once quite meat heavy before agriculture was developed. So a raw diet makes just as much if not more sense than a processed one.
 
#4 ·
I was asking why people feed their dogs on raw food answer the question or don't bother answering, they aren't completely the same as they use to be hundreds of years ago! this information was from a QUALIFIED vet!
Its just a simple question.
 
#10 ·
The beauty of feeding dogs is, they actually can thrive on MANY different things. Heck, dogs can even live quite well on a vegetarian diet (not that I recommend it!).

Feed what you like to feed and what your dog DOES WELL ON (please, listen to what your dog tells you!) and who cares what anyone else thinks, seriously. Unless a dog is truly suffering or the species as a whole is dying out from malnutrition, perhaps we don't really need to worry about it so much?

;)