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Originally Posted by Brooklynn  While I agree with you that if they were in the wild they would be eating raw meat but they are domesticated now and the environment is different and domesticated animals have adapted to their environment and they are not wild any longer. In the wild they have no control on what they eat so of course naturally they would have to eat raw meat, grass or leaves ect...just so they wouldn't starve, it's called survival. Now that's not the case  I'm just not a fan of feeding raw and the dangers of contamination (not sure how to spell that).
JMHO
Donna |
I guess my opinion on that would be that even though they are domesticated, even a domestic cat/dog will eat meat from their own kills if they are lost in the wild or allowed to, Sadie the other day ate a cricket. and i know of many yorkies who catch and eat mice before their owners can take it away. it's natural instinct even though WE have made them domestic to eat the meat fresh from a kill. despite adaptations to our lifestyles, dogs and cats are still much closer in body to their canine and feline ancestors than they are to us domestic humans...thus i personally see more benefit from raw foods that try their best to mock their natural feedings than commercial packaged rotten grain and meats that were not good enough for human consumption. (which i've found that a lot of dog foods are made from)
anyways, the whole dog food recall is what started us onto raw home made diets because i don't want to kill my dog on commercial foods and i know that they almost killed my dad's dog Ruger, she was having either kidney or renal failure from commercial foods and almost died and luckily he switched her and saved her life for a few more years....
anyways, like i said i see the benefits outweighing any negative and just because a vet says there is bacteria in meats that make a dog sick doesn't mean i believe it, i still think their systems are very different than human ones and no matter how domestic a dog gets, they still don't know how to make a fire and cook their food so they still should be eating as close to raw natural as can be.