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Originally Posted by buffy512  I am very familiar as to why Veterinarians all recommend it. They get a huge kickback for making that sell/recommendation. Same as to medical doctors. Its a crazy business in which some medical doctors wont even touch a patient but keep passing over prescriptions. That's the answer. I've never heard personally of a dog doing well on it. I'm not saying that there aren't some that are. Although everyone that is using SD that I know always tells me. My vet recommended it. How convenient.?! 
No debate. Just thought I would give you my experience. Once I was told that. It all made sense to me.! |
I hear where you're coming from and I do respect your opinion.
The kickback they get is actually quite small, just so you know. It's not a big money maker. I think some vets may recommend it for profit (while concurrently believing in the food) and some may recommend it more for prescription diet / specialty issues.
There are many dogs on here who wouldn't be alive if it weren't for some of their prescription diets. They do have some very novel Rx diets that are key to some dogs being able to survive. So, I think for that alone - they do deserve some kudos for researching and developing the more novel diets.
Btw, I should maybe say that I don't feed SD and never have - so I'm not promoting it bc I feed it. I actually feed premade raw. But if my dog had an issue and SD had the only solution, I would def feed it!
