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Originally Posted by RawfedYorkieLuv  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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Thanks so much for the info! I perused that website for quite a while earlier, and found some great information. I would probably be more inclined to try it if my dogs were having any problems.....but they are healthy. It appeals to me for the same reasons that organic whole food appeal to me for myself, and one of those reasons is that I don't have so many health problems when I eat healthfully. But if I am going to switch them from something that they are already doing extremely well on.....I need a very very compelling reason. So far the only reasons that are compelling for me in my particular circumstance are the long-term effects (of which I can find no evidence for either food), and the thought that it might be of benefit to my little one who is a bit overweight. One other thought, again just in my particular circumstance, is that it is very, very difficult to find organic meat in my area. Therefore, I would be switching from a processed diet to a diet full of growth hormones and other c**p. I'm not sure this is a step up.