[RawfedYorkieLuv]

Hi, sorry to hear about about babies!
You can find a raw support/chat group on yahoo. I'm a member with them as well and many people on there also have dogs that have (had) a variety of health issues. They feel that these problems were brought on by feeding the wrong diet for years (kibble) in the first place and have found great success in maintaining a healthy pet with raw. BUN levels and other level ratios have been established using kibble fed test dogs and averages taken from the general pet dog population assuming all of those have been kibble fed which is the type of food we've been told is best, over and over again by professionals who should know better! I always hear from other raw feeders that their dog's BUN levels are always slightly higher than that of kibble eaters which the vets assume is bad. But then, when was the last time they saw a truly healthy dog??? Just to throw this out there real quick as info; salmonella and other bacteria is not something a dog has to worry about. Nature took care of that. Will a cow keel over every time it eats grass? Of course not and a dog can't be harmed by a food it was designed to eat by evolution. Besides, kibble can have bacteria and so can cooked food. Raw is not as high in protein as some assume, it's comparable to common brands of kibble. But the raw and pure form of the protein is what makes this so valuable for the dog as he can use the nutrients 100% vs. cooked protein sources. Canine just wasn't meant to eat fiber. These are all things that I have learned when researching raw. I must note that while I don't have dogs with BUN level issues and such, my oldest boy would've been put down last year due to chronic systemic yeast infection and he was suffering while no vet was helping him. If anything, they made it worse by telling me to feed the wrong foods and to vaccinate him even more. Systemic yeast infection is a immune system disease that my boy no longer has to suffer through these days and I'm sorry to say that I don't trust a vet anymore when it comes to nutrition anyways. IMO, no kibble or other cooked protein can possibly help a sick dog get any better. There's a lot of info out there from both sides and one has to weigh in on what he/she believes is the right way for our beloved pets! 12 years of no results had me backed into a corner and I took the raw plunge because there was nothing else left to do cause we had done it all! I didn't believe it at first either but now I can't endorse any other form of food source any longer.