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Originally Posted by gzarr  I have to update you on a couple things.
1. Dozer's ear infection is completely gone from giving him probiotics for 2 weeks. A $13 bottle has resolved what hundreds of $ from the vet couldn't for years. Awesome! I'm just going to keep him on permanently.
2. I started playing softball the other day on a new team and one of the ladies works at a local vet office. She said to have her on speed dial in case of any questions. So, of couse, I asked, "So what's your opinion on the raw food diet?" It was probably a loaded question, but I hadn't talked to any vets about their thoughts yet. She responds, "Do your dogs eat it? I suppose so. Well, WOULD YOU EAT IT?" I had to laugh! That's not even comparing apples to apples! You are talking about two different species with two different needs and systems! Would we eat what what a snake, fly or lion eat? It doesn't even make sense! She then asks if our dogs have diahrreaha and I said no that they have small black poop that turns white and turns to dust in a couple days. She made a snide remark like that WAS diahrreaha or a parasite or something and laughed.
Anyways, I just was blown away by how off people can be and I had to vent. I know that vets aren't taught nutrition in school and they are sponsered by kibble companies, but why can't they just see the logic of it? If you think about raw, it totally makes sense! I wanted to ask her what in the heck did dogs eat before humans came in and 'saved them' with kibble? How on earth could they even survive??? (That's sarcasm). |
On the first part - YAY!!! So, are you using the Dogzymes Dig. Enhancer - did you end up getting that one? I love that stuff.
On the second part...sigh...I know. It used to get super-duper confrontational here (at YT) and nasty here in threads about raw, and now it's mostly supportive (whether people agree or not) which is so nice.
Kibble has been around for, what, 69 years now or so? And let's see, wolves have roamed the earth for 1 million years, and North America for 750,000 years? And there is virtually no evolution in the dogs' systems other than some dentition crowding - which makes sense given all the cross breeding. So......while kibble isn't "bad"...I certainly do think we have valid reasons to believe feeding raw can be beneficial to a canine.
