How were your pups physically when you transitioned to BARF? I read about "doggie detox" recently. Symptoms include mucus coating your dog’s stool, excess shedding, dry skin, runny eyes, etc. They say the dog’s body is purging itself of the various toxins that have built up over time.

I'm awaiting my first order of Darwin's & curious if this "detox" is typical of dogs transitioning to raw. My Yoshi experienced symptoms like this when he first started eating Acana exclusively. I'm not sure if Orijen & Acana are so much better quality than everything else that a dog would experience "detox". I thought he was allergic to something in the Acana.

The general ideal if detox id philosophical abd clinical.

Okay best I can explain it beside natural ACV and fruit acidic intake you are detoxing in a flushibg was but detoxing in a way of dtopping the "toxic" intaking.

I had obe on model prey taw and it wasn't working so went to adjusted barf.

I gave stella and chewys patties and raw fruits and cegis fir two years in small amounts.

I held back on bones for a long time and also on store geniune uncleansed raw meats, although I am still very careful about the freshness and only get organic nonGMO meats from the grocery which sells only local meats.

Bone feeding scared ne and I'm still very careful the ideal of an obstruction or splinteribg bones is a cobcern I still have.
I have noted the majority of ibfection causibg sickness with raw has had to do with the type storage habdeling and above all else freshness of the meats.

It was a slow transition here literally all in all over a years time.
I still give sone totw kibbke none of the CA factories that distribute here had recalls or in the flavor we feed so it would be dishonest to say my dogs are 100%on raw.

My personal opinion on detoxing is that lessening allergens preservatives and synthetics is the best weather your dog eats kibble wet food eaw or honecooked.

Its like, to me, going from microwace meal to freshmeat preservative organic toxin free, its a whole picture detox

Hello..just thought I'll post an update on Milly and her super sensitive tummy. So, she has been on Hills i/d wet food for the past month or so - and no problems so far. She loves the wet food (although I am worried what long term use of wet food will do to her teeth as she is not too keen on brushing her teeth:confused:), she doesn't get horrible eye goop which she did when she was on Orijen, she poops far less as well...so...we have no choice but to stick with hills!

Glad it's working out for her.