Hello and welcome to this thread! There are NO official long-term studies on diet for dogs, period. K*bble companies have done short term AAFCO and AVMA sponsored studies on k*bble fed dogs. Those studies have only been able to prove that dogs *can* SURVIVE on k*bble. Surviving and thriving are two different things. We all remember the documentary on that guy who ate only McDonald's foods for 30 days and its effects. He didn't die either but his health declined. The sick pets that filling up veterinary clinics all over the country are poof that k*bble promotes an unhealthy state of being in our pets! K*bble has only been in existence for 60 something years. RAW was how dogs ate before the invention of business savvy, greedy people! My grandfather and other relatives in that time (most were butchers by trade) fed their dogs RAW. Other parts of the world, where advertisement is not as rampant as it is in our western world, feed their canines RAW foods. Many prey model feeder have been doing this for many many years and report healthy dogs. RAW is not a new fad, it's been around for thousands and thousands of years. That's the way dogs ate UNTIL k*bble was invented.
There is an independent feline study and it revealed that indeed, raw fed cats fared a lot better in comparisons to the other non raw fed cats. As long as there's money to be made in this commercial pet food business, you won't find any sponsored studies on raw. RAW saved my own dog's life and many other prey model feeders are reporting the same reasons as to why they started to research RAW in the first place. They're dogs were sick on k*bble! There is NO such thing as *top quality* kibble! It's all cooked/ processed proteins with other crazy (kelp, garlic
) ingredients that a dog (carnivore) is not able to tolerate well. Dogs are not rabbits. They are ancestors of the gray wolf with identical biochemical make-ups and digestive systems that was designed by nature to eat prey animals in the raw form. Here's a great website for you, if you care to research further;
Jane Anderson's Raw Learning Site
read the "Boo hiss" section on the far right on the page, highlighted in yellow. Every so called experts's opinions and assumptions on the RAW matter have been addressed!
Thank you for your interest!
Nadia
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Originally Posted by BakersDozen  LOL Good point. I would like a long-term study of companion dogs, comparing the health of those fed a raw diet and those fed a top-quality (no fillers, by-products, etc) commercial diet....for at least 8 years, preferably 10 years. I agree that most commercial food is c**p, and all the reasoning on the benefits of a raw diet make sense to me. However, I am not convinced of the long-term superiority of a raw diet compared to a top-quality dry food. I am open, just not totally convinced. |
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