Obviously there are many people who will feed whatever they're feeding for whatever reasons......
Even if the animal wasn't sick *yet* from k*bble, that does not mean its eating a
species appropriate diet which
k*bble is not. Artificial, cooked, man-made. I rather take my "chances" with supermarket meat vs an *organic* pellet.
But you are right to ask yourself these questions, as I debated this with myself. I concluded that my dogs are better off with prey model. My puppies never even had any health problems to begin with but why not let them eat the good food as well?! I got my concrete answer and proof when one of my female dogs came to me at 12 weeks old at 1 1/2 pounds, k*bble fed of course but non the less NOT skinny. She was never even expected to reach 4 pounds as an adult! She's now almost 14 months old and weighs almost 6 pounds! She looks and acts so different than my senior dog did when he was her age and I had him since he was 5 weeks old! I can feel her ribs, but not see them = perfect weight. It's a known fact around prey model feeders that puppies experience natural growth vs. unnatural growth spurts on k*bble. I'm 100% confident of similar results with my other puppy female. I went the grain free route. I also went the home cooking and the pre made BARF route. NOTHING compares to the results that I have with prey model. Nothing. And I'm not alone in those observations. One does not know the difference in a dog if one never fed his dog prey model. What appears to be a normal/healthy k*bble fed dog will be a spectacular dog on prey model! What I'm saying is; you don't know how much better your dog can and will be until you see for yourself!
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Originally Posted by BakersDozen  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. |
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