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What your vets won't tell you.
Raw-fed pets.
Replies: 57Last Post Oct. 5 4:20am by BodomChick
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bgarr1ett


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I know my dogs are eating healty thank goodness!

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Cressanttiger84


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the vet we know doesn't try to sell us usless food but we known him for about 18 years, but the bone thing I kinda have to argue about the bones that the dogs chew on can beak and when that happens the small fragments get inside and hurt them or ghet stuck inside their throats

Post edited at 8:43 am on June 11, 2008 by Cressanttiger84


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stewfoo

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Quote: from Cressanttiger84 at 9:05 am on June 11, 2008

the vet we know doesn't try to sell us usless food but we known him for about 18 years, but the bone thing I kinda have to argue about the bones that the dogs chew on can beak and when that happens the small fragments get inside and hurt them or ghet stuck inside their throats

Uncooked bones do not splinter. Wild dogs, and cats, will eat bone all the time.

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Narfle the Garthok

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Why might BARF be fatal to dogs? Let Dr. Churchill count the ways: "Bones, even raw and ground ones, can perforate the [gastrointestinal] tract. This can lead to peritonitis, severe infections, require emergency surgery, and dogs die from this each year...These diets are contaminated with bacteria. This may not be harmful to a healthy dog. However, dogs don't come with a label saying which ones will be fine and which ones will get sick."

You should boil the bones, it softens them. Correction, most uncooked bones do not splinter, but some still do; depending on the bone itself. Better to boil the bones for about 10 minutes to be on the safe side.


THIS ONLY PERTAINS TO DOGS NOT AT 100% HEALTH. Healthy dogs benefit from the small traces bacteria in uncooked bones/meat by building an immunity to it.

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Aliboo


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Thats interesting. I dont eat meat, but I might consider feeding it to a pet.

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baroque


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Do you feed your pets raw meat? Do you own any?

If not, I suggest you refrain from giving out any information to others about theirs.



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Punkrocker 1992


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My mom's a vet and I knew all this. We usually feed our animals "pet food" (Science Diet R/D for my dogs, D/D for my cat), just because raw food is expensive. Nonetheless they get plenty of it. We buy small chickens for Roo weekly, just for her.

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babsbunee13


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I highly, HIGHLY agree with not feeding kibble. it is not natural, and a dogs body cannot digest things like corn, which is what kibble is mostly made of.

That whole Beneful shit, yeah, it makes you think veggies are good for dogs. They're not.

And seriously, if I had the money to raw feed my dog, I would in a heart beat. I do, however, mix his food with either a boiled egg or some kind of meat everyday. Kibble does not have enough protein and nutrition, especially for my show dog.

So, when your walking down the isle at PetsMart wondering which food is better, none of it is.

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I'd like to see you eat some raw meat, since it's so safe.

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Westy


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Those teeth arent meant to chew mashed potatos...I dont know who does that.

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stewfoo

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Quote: from peace love sunshine at 2:13 pm on Aug. 15, 2008

I'd like to see you eat some raw meat, since it's so safe.

Technically, a human could go out and kill a wild animal, eat it's meat raw, and not get sick, if they are healthy.

Don't be stupid.

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BodomChick


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i didn't know a lot of that

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