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Originally Posted by chickendido  I appreciate your comment! People looking into research is what I truly wanted to accomplish here today if anything at all! If people only heard the person and not the message, that's something I have to live with as I am, as I am! Constructive responses are awesome! Any insight into my personality and why I feel so passionate about this, is pointless now and so I won't bore with it, not that it ever mattered here or today. Let's just say I have thick skin and always hope that people have the same! I chose to grab this the way I did because I am blunt, no excuses on my part! Not everybody's style, I get that, but to make an example, what offends one person, wakes up the other one, two or three, and that's another thing that happened today! I already offered apologies to people who felt offended, so with that said, I ain't no Mel Gibson, lol. |
I am interested in some of those "raw food" websites. I have only checked out natures variety...the booklet info I picked up at the pet supplies plus. i have a bag of raw that was given to me from the worker at the pet store. My vet told me that she sees a lot of pancreatic problems feeding the raw food. i have 2 yorkies- one currently showing calcium oxalate crystals in her urine. I "heard" that the quality of protein is what actually mattered in a dog food. My dog was on Purina Pres NF diet since last Feb when we first discovered crystals. This food seriously messed up my little dog. My old vet pretty much left it up to me to do follow up and urinalysis.
So...we finally switched vets-(for many reasons) but once we got our little 7 lb yorkie to the NEW vet we discovered that Samie had an ear infection in both ears, a yeast infection (I believe since last Aug 2006) AND she was also suffering an allergic reaction in her digestive tract from the pres diet she had been on since Feb.
I recently switched her to Canidae- I had not done enough research on the raw yet to feed that. And I couldn't NOT feed my dogs... they have been doing well on the Canidae. I heard on this site that high protein could be bad for a dog with kidney problems/stones. so i have not switched to anything else yet. The vet wanted to put her back on a pres diet- this time Hills W/D formula with adding 1 teas potassium citrate granules to her food once a day. I was to scared to put her back on a food that contained "corn"
Just like i read on the Natures Variety booklet I have. You wouldn't feed a dog "fish" why would you feed a dog "kibble or grains" makes sense to me...
appreciate any sites you have researched on the raw diet. :-)