[MyFairLacy]

Originally Posted by hha

But, I've never heard anything much on this raw feeding, I did e-mail a vet out in California, to see what she thought of it..My question is why do you all do this raw feeding? I have been searching online, and myself, I don't think it looks all that great.., just from what I've read, and a lot of work..I had a golden retriever I had to have put to sleep back in 2002, she ate kibbles and chunks all her life, and of course, her little goodies too, now, when we had her put to sleep, she was 18 years old, and the only reason we had her put down was because she had cancer...but, for a big dog to have to be put down at 18, heck, I hardly ever even see tiny dogs live as long as that..so, what I'm really wanting to know, is why do you do this raw feeding?

It's what a dog was designed to eat. Dogs are carnivores and wouldnt eat grains in their natural environment. Dogs and wolves are genetically the same - in fact, they have been recently changed to one species instead of two. Wolves catch prey animals in the wild and eat the muscle meat, bones, and organs. They can also be scavengers and will eat food that humans may have left lying around. With dogs, humans would feed them leftover meat - sometimes cooked, sometimes uncooked. Kibble wasn't invented until around the 1940s because of World War 2. It was a cheap way to feed the dogs and a way to put all the products not fit for humans to use. Over the years pet food has become a major industry and better kibbles have been developed. But a raw diet has been around forever as it was what dogs originally were meant to eat. Kibble was a human invention. Dogs are much healthier on raw