I'm not sure that prey model alone is an adaquit diet for a domestic dog but I am convinced that for many many centuries dogs had no one to cook for them. They were fed left overs from diets that are much different than the diet we have today. Feral dogs eat raw meat. Domestic dogs were for many, many years fed raw meat. Most of what was prepared for human consumption was used by the humans. Pets were given mostly organ meat and other parts the humans did not consume along with raw bones to chew on.
The meat in a good commercial raw food is no different than the raw meat we buy in the store for ourselves except that it is healthier than most of the meat in the average grocery store. Are they going to start destroying all the pathogens in the meat humans bring home to cook before they buy it? I suppose it is possible with what I have been seeing concerning the regulation of what people eat.
Vets have had very little experience with raw diet and I think that is one of the reasons they are so afraid of it. A very small percentage of dog owners use raw so the experience level does not increase. I'd be willing to bet that most raw feeders have far fewer trips to the vet. |