Reply to is it OK to feed just kibble? or should i work in some wet food or some other topper?

Forum Index » Pets

Reply to "is it OK to feed just kibble? or should i work in some wet food or some other topper?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, yeah, when your dog's ancestors lived in the wild they ate raw food, and so did your apelike hominid ancestor.

That doesn't make raw food "like they had in the wild" appropriate for your dog who is the result of hundreds of generations of domestication any more than you'd be healthy living on what proto-humans ate.

Modern dog food is actually designed for the nutritional needs of the domesticated dog.

The "back to nature raw food" thing is a human bias.[/quote]
What is your source for this wisdom? Advertisements from Science Diet, Purina etc?[/quote]

[b]My dog's vet when I asked about the whole "raw food" thing.[/b][/quote]
Many vets know surprisingly little about nutrition. A lot of their information comes from what is pushed by the major pet food manuacturers like you guessed it Hills, Purina etc. I totally trust my vet with my dogs' medical issues. I do not take nutrition advice from her ever since  she wanted to give one of my dogs Hills Science Diet. Most regular vets are also against raw. It takes more effort to feed a balanced raw diet but a lot of people do it successfully and have happy healthy dogs to show for it.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics