Having switched Bella to BARF when she was 10 months old, I really wanted to raise Zorro on the same diet. I had a few cases of nerves at the start but thanks to some good old COL encouragement (thanks Penel
) I bit the bullet and he's been fed nothing but raw since the age of about 12 weeks.
Anyway Zorro is now coming up to 8 months - he's had two visits to the vet in the last week to be neutered and then to have his post-op check yesterday. We saw our normal vet the first time and a locum yesterday so I thought I'd just post their comments on him:
First vet (doing the pre-op health check): "He is looking absolutely GREAT, reallly lovely condition and really nice and lean, absolutely brilliant."
Second vet (post-op check to see how the wounds were healing): "Wow, they've healed really quickly, that's brilliant [both scars have already all but disappeared]. He looks absolutely great, lovely condition!"
Neither of the vets knew what he was fed on and neither of them were asked to comment on his condition so I think it's a credit to the raw diet that both of them were so impressed with his general health.
I thought I'd post this just to give encouragement to anyone who is thinking of raising a pup on the raw diet - it's slightly scary at the start and a bit more of a faff than dry food but we can really see the results in Zorro, the leanest, bounciest boy in town!