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Originally Posted by _Chrissy_  Even if the food is free...
There dogs must be doing well on it or "free" isn't free.
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"Well" is such a vague term though. One person can think that a dog that is overweight, has horrible teeth and breath, bad gas, eye boogers, and bad hips is doing "well". While others would think that is terrible.
I'm not saying that dogs that eat these foods are necessarily "unhealthy". A person can also do seemingly "well" eating junk and soda and smoking cigarettes every day ... doesn't necessarily mean they are healthy. My step-sister can pound a dozen or more beers every other night, eats nothing but fast food, smokes cigarettes every day and is skinny as a rail, seemingly looking healthy on the outside, but is she healthy? It will probably catch up to her when she's older. But then again, you meet some old people who have smoked their whole lives, etc, and are very healthy. Then you can have the health food nut who works out every single day and dies at the age of 50 from a heart attack. But which way would you rather live? A dog can live "fine" on these so called "lower quality foods"... sure they can. But it may catch up to them later in life.... it may not.
Either way, not enough research has been done to prove one way or the other. But to me, it just simply makes sense for a dog to eat more meat than anything else? I don't see how it would make any sense for dogs to eat byproducts, grains and veggies over meat. Dog food itself has only been around for about 50 years, it's a fairly new "invention". I'd actually be curious to see the average lifespan of a dog 50yrs ago. I mean, all kibble is over processed and I think if I had the time to balance it all out, I'd love to homecook for Jackson, but I don't have time and so kibble and dog food just has to work for us right now.