I have yet to find a regular Vet in my area who is amenable to my feelings about my dog's health {ie, vaccinations and diet}.
However, I have a fantastic emergency clinic in the area.
It was the E-Vet who flat out told me, no, raw isn't making her sick. Kibble is. Quit mixing the two. She doesn't need kibble if you're feeding raw correctly.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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I have often thought (with respect) of that vet who diagnosed your dog's kibble-fed-with-raw acute colitis problem. That was a frightening episode, and too commonly it would have been suggested that the raw food was the problem.
Too many other web sites have moved away from the warnings about mixing kibble and raw. One well-known dog-feeding site has recently said "I think we can ignore that old story about mixing kibble and raw."
They are wrong. Many many dogs do fine on kibble with raw, but the risk is not worth it. Not to me. The pathogen-colonization risk is clear, it's easy to understand, and it has happened enough times (IMHO) to have trickled down to anyone who is giving advice on feeding dogs.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Quote: marcia blum
My vet made the "twinkie comment". When he asked about diet, I told him I was trying raw, I think I must have also commented on how she liked it. He replied, "Well, I like Twinkies, but that doesn't mean I should eat them all the time."
What a terrible analogy. That's like saying "I like to eat fresh foods, as unprocessed as possible" and your physician retorting "Well, I like Twinkies, but that doesn't mean I should eat them all the time."
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Ugh. I expect that mindset from the general public, but I can't get over vets like that!
I hear asinine comments at my shop all the time and with some people, nothing can change their mind. My mother's shepherd/pit mix is our shop dog and I bet no less than once a month I hear, "they're sweet dogs, but they can turn on their owners!" I've heard this about shepherds, pits, rotties, dobies, bulldogs, and pretty much any breed that is ever in the news for biting.
As raw goes, the one I deal with the most (next to "the bones will kill them") is some variation of raw meat bringing out their killer instinct! As if the dog can somehow understand that the meat and bones in their bowl came from an animal carcass, yet processed and extruded meats wouldn't. But try to explain that a bowl of food is simply a bowl of food to a dog, and you are somehow ignorant. Sometimes I wonder why I ever went into retail.
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Re: Why vet's don't 'recommend' raw
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