I see what you are saying Emma, maybe for a domestic dog it is not 'natural' to eat raw. But how 'natural' is dried dog food. Exactly what have they done to chicken etc to produce these dry pellets??? To my mind that is even more unnatural??? Yes it is a complete meal, but I can't help but feel it is too overprocessed......
At the moment I have one foot in either camp, have decided to try raw, but if after a period of say 5 months it does not suit then we will change back...
I think with raw feeding you can take it as far as you want to. In the first instance I am looking at feeding raw minced meats (AMP and Nature's Menu), which are very similar to wet dog food but not cooked ... Apart from remembering to take it out of the freezer, and preparing some whizzed up raw veggies for freezing once in a while, it should not be any more difficult than feeding pre-prepared conventional dog food.
I am certainly not looking to do away with conventional dog food and throw Dill a rabbit, fur and all..... (for Dill that would so not be natural
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If I had found a dog food that Dill was happy with then I would probably still be vehemently anit-raw.....
But, dry food gave him the runs, nature diet gives him a mucus sleeve, and on top of that he has smelly breath and weepy eyes..... After extensive research, and ClaireP4's account of how raw helped Bella, I have decided to give it a go.....
It may not work, Dill may not take to it, or I may not be able to cope with it, but I won't know till I have tried....
I don't like dismissing something without trying. (well, most things, you will never ever get me to bungee jump
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However, I don't like the 'holier than thou' attitude that sometimes comes with raw feeding (some of the websites I browsed seemed to have this attitude) and I agree that we should all do what we feel is best for our dogs....