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Originally Posted by ladyjane  Oh, I totally agree which is why I don't start threads advising people what or what not to feed....even with a might or maybe in there. If we were to turn the tables here and start a thread about raw feeding and why you should not feed it I can just see the uproar now. I don't feed raw, but I don't tell anyone that they "maybe" should not unless they try to shove it down my throat as the only way to feed. What I will continue to do is to back reputable dog food companies especially those that I use for my pups. Giving reasons why I feed these foods is not the same thing as saying it is what everyone else should feed! Not sure why people are getting that from this thread.
This thread was not, imho, started to get input about different foods; but it has given opinions that were directly against what the OP had posted. That IS telling both sides.  Seems that when we don't agree with an OP and we use valid sources, we are viewed as not being open to other ways of feeding. I personally use a variety of foods/methods so I DO know there are many ways to feed. I home cook, use RX foods, use canned foods and use kibble. And I use Hill's, Purina and Royal Canin. They are companies that have earned my trust. I don't personally care what anyone feeds their pups ... and only get vocal when there is a suggestion that I am poisoning my pups. Such rhetoric is highly offensive to me. |
How many times do we hear people that choose to NOT feed commercial dog food, to instead home cook, or feed raw, start a discussion and in the discussion, usually within the first 5 sentences, are quick to not only push THEIR view that what THEY are doing is the best, the only compassionate, caring, guilt free method of providing for their dog, and that this HAS to be the very best way because a dentist (that has NO vet nutritional education other than what he has picked up along the way) says so and has a "list" for everyone to follow......and if you are feeding a commercial dog food, you are feeding "crap"....and when those of us that clearly "hate" our dogs and feed them 'crap', try to give OUR side of the debate, we are being "hateful, unreasonable, nasty, ill tempered, instigating trouble makers", with "NO CLASS", that deliberately send the proponents of everything but commercial food feeders from a list of "approved" dog food, fleeing, crying, wringing their hands in dispair, complaining of being attacked and emotionally abused, etc....
Once again, "WE" are the unreasonable ones that chase people away from this forum.....so no, there is actually no room for BOTH sides to be told. No opinions can be expressed or debated or explaned if it concerns a commerical dog food that has not been "approved" and is NOT on "The List" by the dentist or even considered by many of the other people that do not feed commercial dog food. People need to stop trying to make others feel they are uncaring because we choose a different way to feed our dogs, and then berrating us for trying to point out inaccurate, one sided, opinionated information that can mislead uninformed people that can not distinguish opinion from proven FACTS.....if ANY information is inaccurate, on EITHER side, and is pushed as fact and truth, THAT is doing harm!