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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

I honestly do think, with all due respect to EVERYone, that people really get excessively overwrought about "germs, germs, omg, GERMS!".

12,410 = the number of raw meals I've fed over the last 8 years.

0 = the number of issues I've had with these "rampant and dangerous germs" from raw food

Just sayin'.

The fear surrounding raw food does not correlate to the REALITY of actually feeding it.

I don't know a single, solitary other raw feeder who has had problems with germs either. Sometimes what one learns in classes or online is not actually what one experiences in reality. I learned that firsthand after getting my bachelors degree in nursing too, btw. The texts and classes say one thing, reality is another.

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I think sometimes two and two might not be put together. Like you have someone with a low immune system in your home you might think they are getting sick from other things or say Grandma came for a visit and after a few days back home she was sick. We might not always see the connection. Another huge issue is making sure it's balanced. A lot of people think you can just throw a raw chicken to the dog and that's it but not balancing it is a huge problem. You also have people who say well raw fixes anything so my dogs allergies will just go away and never get and medicine to help. I stand firmly by what I learned. I have heard and seen some very rough stories of it going bad and it just seems very risky to me. It also puts a bad taste in my mouth that A LOT of people I have heard and seen feed raw thing vets are unnecessary and don't go to them and bash the crap out of them and that just bothers the heck out of me.