[chickendido]

Could I be "nicer"? Probably! Will I be? Probably not! It's not my style as I would never criticize other people for not having the same style as I do and so I expect the same courtesy given to me, as I feel offended by "pussyfooting" and see great use in straight forward shooting, but that's a choice and again, a question of opinion... An important issue was raised, hard questions were asked, hard opinions were given. Was that bad? I think not, as reality is life and life is hard! I call it as I see it and it does NOT have to coexist with other people as we can see that example in every day situations... read what you like, don't what you don't... I personally do not think that I was rude because my personality is set for life at this point and suggestions to change my person might be a nice time waster but does not contribute to the issues at hand as some people have already said clearly that they felt offended, and it was heard by me, make no mistake, I heard it... others, posted publicly or not, did not feel offended.
I make good use of my preview button and any suggestion otherwise, I might feel offended by. But that would only be my e-offended! lol
Running the risk of repeating, I stand by my posts. I don't see myself as the "messiah" of raw word spreading as food is a personal choice. Do I advocate raw and not advocate cooked? To people who want to know about it, yes! But I would never knock somebody for not feeding raw, as I did not always feed raw myself. There's also a huge difference between BARF and prey model raw! I feed the prey model, with high protein kibble only in travel situations when my dogs are boarded, or when yet other reasons arise which I try to minimize as much as possible! Raw fed dogs will have a bit of a higher BUN level, as "normal" levels are based on regular kibble fed dogs, but that does not mean there's a health problem with the animal, just to throw that tid bit info in here... (study conducted by raw feeder groups) BUT somehow raw got thrown into this topic when this is not what the issue is or was. The issue was and still is low protein! Science points to a clear NO! If anything, yes, I did challenge the view of people who advised newcomers to a low(er) protein source of food, but that advise did not offer where that opinion came from other than "I heard" or "it's well known"... I stated to where I got my info from to a "yah" for high protein, Where's the "nay" info on low protein? Can either be discredited? Can my style of writing (it's just words!) be overcome to address the low protein issue? Somebody mentioned, it may not. For those, I wish them good luck! And for the people who are still interested in discussing THAT (on this thread anyways) instead of ME.... has anybody else come across real concrete info regarding protein? Has anybody fed Low protein to their puppy? Has anybody fed High protein? For the people that asked me, let me just post it here, I am open to PM as I always have been, nothing of course has changed in that regard, lol.