A few things here I would like to comment on. I hardly ever hear anyone mention, is the fact that prior to1860, dogs Never ate manufactured food that came from a bag, box or can. The first "dog biscuit " was created in 1860 by an English businessman, James Sprat. Then in 1890 a British company took over Sprats biscuit formula and began dog food production in the USA. Then in 1907 "Milk Bones " was introduced. Then in 1922 the first canned dog food was introduced, "Ken-L-Ration, mainly made from horse meat and cow blood. So, before 1860, Dogs only ate wild game, dead animals they found, and a little table scraps from their owners. The best food for Any living being including dogs is what Nature created for them to eat by the way their bodies were designed to eat. Dogs were designed to tare and shred fur and eat meat and Raw bones from the prey they found, and they ate everything including raw bones on or in the animal including intestines. What they could not eat, they chewed on for days. Burying what they didn't eat and dug it up later to consume with dirt and all that was stuck on the meat or bones. Getting minerals from the dirt also provides for a healthier stronger gut and immune system and minerals from the earth itself. Second thing is that manufacturers add SYNTHETIC vitamins and minerals to their products, because the food is dead, void of any living enzymes or vitamins and minerals that are destroyed from the processing of the food. Many vitamins and minerals are destroyed from heat above 118 degrees from the processing. The body can not properly synthesize or utilize synthetic additives. They also add flavor enhancers sprayed on top or mixed in the foods to get the animals to eat it. Many foods have preservatives in them to keep it on a shelf for a year or more and the most dangerous of preservatives are BHA and BHT! Lastly is that health issues that we never seen before in dogs that seemed to start with the introduction of vaccines and "Convenient" foods found on store shelves with labels. Both are manmade and by the most part is synthetic in the products. Dogs never needed labels on their food or needed any manufactured food assistance prior to 1860. It is all about the money, and selling products food companies can't sell as human grade food and profits over health. The scraps and middling's and other items dogs really would not eat in the wild along with stuff swept up from the floor is collected and sold to dog food manufacturers as part of the ingredients list for dog food as binders, fillers and unhealth sources of fiber. The rest of the ingredients that makes up many dog food products is full of chemicals, artificial colors, {Makes it more sellable to the owners to feed their dog} flavor enhancers, artificial vitamins and minerals along with meats collected from rendering companies that are decayed, or diseased and euthanized pets. How can ANY thing man manufactures be better than what dogs ate from nature and Thrived on since the beginning of time Before man seen a way to market and sell something that is in no way better than what is found in nature. It's all about marketing, money and profits over health. Just because an animal can eat something does not mean it's healthy for them or that they can thrive on and live a long healthy life the way nature intended.
Can you please provide reliable evidence that "before 1860 dogs only ate wild game". Your vaccine garbage has been so resoundingly debunked that I'm not giving it time.
Nature never "intended" anything. Wild dogs die waaay young and more often. Also, vaccines on the whole have waaay more benefits than risks. For humans AND dogs
I agree kibble is bad i feed mine a little kibble but with ollie frozen raw dogfood. Mine are wolfdogs and they cant live on kibble goes right thru them. Plus have meat market by me that sells bison lamb deer and elk meat but i do cook it before i give to them they also get uncooked lamb shank bones
Balance is a selling point from the kibble companies. My dogs and cats eat meat, ground bone, skin, fat, and organs. That is balanced. I am a multi-pet household, an ex groomer, and a cat and dog rescuer of many hundreds of animals. This gives me lots of anecdotal evidence. My pets live into their late teens or longer, with a minimum of vet care. I have been feeding raw over 20 yrs and I have fed kibble fed animals usually easily transition. It has been found that many kibbles are contaminated. People have short memories. Do we not remember the dogs and cats who were getting sick and dying because of kibble? If there are reasons to feed a cooked food to pets, I can buy that, but I would never see kibble as an alternative.
0:49 what they are referring to is people will find the cheapest cut of meat and or ground meat, slice the package and drop it in the dish, with nothing else.
When I clicked on this video, I mistakenly thought you were a podcast made by the company I purchased my raw dog food from - BJ's Raw. 🤣 I quickly realized. I can purchase complete meals, or a wide variety of ingredients and make up my own meals for my dog. She has a good variety, including bones, fish, organ meat, various meats from rabbit, goat, venison, beef,, chicken, turkey, etc; She has raw goat milk, raw duck feet, dehydrated rabbit feet with the fur still on, as treats. She has been offered the regular dog food treats/biscuits at the day care center she goes to and turns up her nose. She doesn't care for any of the "food" items they offer her, but they don't want to give her the raw treats she gets at home, so she goes without while she is there. She is high energy! If you follow the same practices of cleanliness in your kitchen, when feeding your dog, as you do when handling raw meat you are preparing for yourself, the risk is minimized. I think the risks of a lifetime of highly processed kibble are worse and you are setting yourself and your dog(s) up for a world of hurt later in life. But each to their own!
The argument that dogs aren't wolves and they evolved to eat what we ate is a terrible argument for kibble. With their logic, it would be more natural to feed them random table scraps because they evolved to survive on that.
@@shakeyj4523 people on these forums that are uneducated tend to use that argument. I see it weekly, if not daily. I laugh and move on as my healthy dogs gulp down their raw chicken necks and duck heads.
@shakeyj4523 You've never heard that argument? It's literally the only argument they have for feeding a dog the standard kibble, aka 70% grains and vegetables.
@@SelmaAymara No, it is an argument in favor of dogs being adapted to human food, which they are. Human scraps to be exact. So there is nothing wrong with feeding grains and vegetables. There IS a problem with feeding highly processed food for both dogs and humans. There is also a problem with the random person trying to feed a dog if they don't have a clue what they are doing.
I feed a raw diet to my dogs using grocery store purchased meats with the occasional wild hunted animal meat. My dogs live in the country, and get lots of time outside in the grass and dirt. I respectfully disagree with the notion that we should cook our store bought meat. Even city dogs get outside and have access to grass and dirt.
👍. I discovered mold in my high end kibble bag. I didn’t se/. Smell it until we were 3/4 the way through the bag. My dog had the loose stools for weeks. After that we switched to raw and gently cooked. Poops are now perfect and she loves meal time.
After loosing 2 dogs to stomach problems due to kibble, I fed my American Akita with raw food since she was a puppy. Se grew healthy and after a while she rejected raw food. So I started slightly cooking her food leaving the inner part raw. She lived to be 13 years old. Always healthy. Feeding kibble is a kind of animal abuse
@@enriquerojas9758 And I had a white Boxer who never had anything but kibble, and lived to the ripe old age of 15. How many 15 year old Boxers have you ever heard of? Your diet is even more dangerous than commercial food, because you violated all the food safety protocols. I guess because my Boxer lived to be 15, Kibble is better than what you feed. Game, point and match. Feeding bacteria laden undercooked food is a kind of animal abuse.
The healthier a dog’s gut microbiome is from eating fresh whole foods, the more stronger their digestive systems are. My dog has been on raw for 4 1/2 yrs… complete and balanced diy, Darwin’s, BJs, Rawfeeding Miami, Steve’s Real, Viva raw, Answer’s, Primal, Stella’s, etc. I add whole food supplements if not complete, and rotate every few weeks. She can eat a rotten piece of meat and still be fine. Not that I would purposely feed it to her, but if she happens to eat a spoiled piece of raw meat, I don’t freak out.
Well, fact is, my dogs are healthy and they become no industrial food, no chemicals, ... No vet needed. Ask yourself - who want to make business out of your dog, ... the market for pets is bigger, than for babies!!! Keep them in mind!!! And, who is paying for the ‚research‘👍👍👍 Many greetings from Germany
It absolutely does. Cats can tend to be a bit harder to transition though. They also have a more rigid nutrient requirement that can make balancing their meals a bit more complex (Cats ABSSOLUTELY MUST have a source of Taurine in their diet, as their body does not fabricate it naturally).
I have 2 raw fed cats that were rescued as kittens, they are now 12yrs old, in perfect health , shiny, lithe , with abundant energy, perfect teeth and very happy.
@@Lola-wv1cy That's the thing you started them as kittens trying to transition when they're older is like trying to get us to change our ways when we get older. You're lucky I'm putting down a 5-yr-old cat tomorrow that is full of cancer. I do blame the food even though Science Diet, Blue Buffalo, Iams we're supposed to be good. When a vet tells you a 5yr-old cat isn't supposed to be getting cancer something's wrong. They always have had fluoride chemical-free water. I learned that when it killed 3 tarantulas. My cat's used to live until 18-20
mine gets fed a mix of raw meat and bone from the butcher, raw fruits, cooked veggies, high quality kibble, and canned food. heck his dinner right now is a mix of wet food, dry food, egg, egg shell, raw chicken foot, and some strawberries.
They have to PROVE their finding! Dogs are not wolfs and because, of all the breeding changes dogs definitely have changed and many NOT be able to eat raw. They neglect to take into account the crazy breeding changes that have happened to dogs.
I love raw feeding and I know it isn't fit for every dog/cat but some people stayed with us for awhile and she was literally just buying things like ground beef and just raw chicken breasts for her dog, she never did any research really and she would add some things that she thought were healthy but weren't, like corn and rice. I know they can digest this but have many issues digesting things like this. Any suggestion I would ever make (even if I had proof) she would basically just shut me down or shut down any thought that something might be bad for her dog. I honestly do not understand why people are like this but I do understand that I cannot force anyone into believing this or following this diet, I just was really uncomfortable of the fact she was doing certain things everyday that I just don't agree with and that I know could harm the dog.
I fed my dogs whole cow stomachs, chewed grass included. Wolves rip open the stomch and eat the plants the prey ate. Then they ear the meat. Pet dogs eat horse, deer, herbivore droppings to add things not in the meat of the prey, or human grade beef and chicken.
@@SnowySpiritRuby Yeah there's lots of injuries they sustain especially in the busted tooth and bone categories, life's tough for any wildlife, especially apex.
This idea of 'fads' is really irritating to me as I'm from the time when kibble was only just starting to gain traction here in Australia which was in the 1990's, even then it was only used as a supplement at best to top up vitamins and minerals and never as a meal, our home made recipes (note; NOT rice and mince, I can't wait for this to disappear) was what made the meal. Then we skip forward to 2007 and my puppy was suddenly a survivor in the dog food crisis, up until then I was the weird one for not feeding him a bag of kibble which was now the entire meal, vets also gave advice on what to feed during this time though had been hostile to me for home feeding until the crisis but continued afterwards saying I was a nut for home feeding. But how could I trust the same companies that dosed their food with melamine and pretended nothing was wrong? How did people just go back and buy/endorse mindlessly pretending nothing had happened with these companies? Skip forward again to nowadays when I got my newest puppy as the old boy of 2007 passed on, vets are clueless on what to feed beyond a bag of kibble but less hostile to home feeding, meanwhile allergies and tooth decay are rife and a dog's lifespan is half that of when I was a kid. Meanwhile the recipes passed along in the family (pre-1900 era, probably 1860's minimum before it was written down) for the dogs have yet to fail us during anyone else's crisis.
I will always stand behind fed is best, but feed the best you can and do your research. Dont pick the prettiest bag. We live in a technological era, and we have access to information, get what you can afford, and look into food to learn as much as possible. Don't we want the best for our furry friends at the end of the day.
How about the lack of regulation that goes into the vitamin and mineral packs that are added to these kibbles and crappy "fresh" food options. How many thousands of dogs died because they didn't check the levels of a vitamin D? I will never trust a major dog food company that doesn't test the amount of something that can kill my dog
Cats are obligated to carnivores and dogs are facultative carnivores…my vet tried to tell me dogs are omnivores lol I laughed…the thing about the risk factor when your talking raw vs kibble is that there may be a risk to getting sick right away to eating raw however there’s a greater risk of getting sick eating kibble long term
This was so balanced and objective. I've been worried about what to feed mt 8 month mini Schnazzer. Trying raw and gently cooked. The raw have heels loose stools, but I didn't want to keep her on the Kibble so now I think I'll just gently cook her food and try and include everything she needs l, like muscle meant and organ meat but ni raw meaty bones. In fact, no cooked bones at all! But they can have baked n crushed eggshell for calcium, right?
I disagree with your assumptions. Corporate dog food companies all prioritize profit over nutrition, just like the human food corporations. We are slowly being sicken by the food corporations because of greed and the FDA is complicit with that trend. This is no different with the corporate dog food trend.
Humans are not plant eaters either, research what a vestigial cecum means. Our saliva has enzymes that pre digests our food, we don't chew the cud, we are hind gut fermenters. We also cook our food, which is another form of pre-digestion. We evolved a throwing arm to hunt for our good. I will show you a doctor who explains the optimal human diet (we are closer to cats then dogs in our dietary needs) th-cam.com/video/eAhe6BkLTOo/w-d-xo.html Human anatomy debunks the ridiculous notion that we are plant eaters.
Oddly enough kibble wasn't a thing when I was a kid and kicked off around the 1990's for us here in Australia, even then it was used more as a supplement to top up vitamins and minerals, and was cautioned against being used as the entire meal.
Research is as far from "opinion" as you can get. The entire point is to guard against bias, and look for evidence based facts. It is the entire point of the peer review process. To make sure it is NOT opinion, and is well based on well designed studies. Anecdotal evidence gathered by "putting it to the test yourself" is worthless. You really should educate yourself before you write comments like that.
@@thebkpets The idea of clinical "research" is a very washed-up term. "Research/science"" really means who ever funded the "studies" will get the results they want. I would never ever trust any studies put out there. The first thing I look for in a "study" is who funded it and how it was conducted? I have yet to read a "study" that wasn't funded by a coporation selling something. That goes for human "studies" as well. Eating is the most instinctual thing in all life forms. We don't need dudes in white coats, cooped up in a lab telling us what to eat. I trust the knowledge of my ancestors any day before I believe a thing corporations/government tell me.
@@Uilani-g4m Facts! The same thing was done was with lard vs cooking oil and butter vs margarine. Research and 'science' has been pay-to-win for a very long time.
A few things here I would like to comment on. I hardly ever hear anyone mention, is the fact that prior to1860, dogs Never ate manufactured food that came from a bag, box or can. The first "dog biscuit " was created in 1860 by an English businessman, James Sprat. Then in 1890 a British company took over Sprats biscuit formula and began dog food production in the USA.
Then in 1907 "Milk Bones " was introduced. Then in 1922 the first canned dog food was introduced, "Ken-L-Ration, mainly made from horse meat and cow blood.
So, before 1860, Dogs only ate wild game, dead animals they found, and a little table scraps from their owners. The best food for Any living being including dogs is what Nature created for them to eat by the way their bodies were designed to eat. Dogs were designed to tare and shred fur and eat meat and Raw bones from the prey they found, and they ate everything including raw bones on or in the animal including intestines. What they could not eat, they chewed on for days. Burying what they didn't eat and dug it up later to consume with dirt and all that was stuck on the meat or bones. Getting minerals from the dirt also provides for a healthier stronger gut and immune system and minerals from the earth itself.
Second thing is that manufacturers add SYNTHETIC vitamins and minerals to their products, because the food is dead, void of any living enzymes or vitamins and minerals that are destroyed from the processing of the food. Many vitamins and minerals are destroyed from heat above 118 degrees from the processing. The body can not properly synthesize or utilize synthetic additives. They also add flavor enhancers sprayed on top or mixed in the foods to get the animals to eat it. Many foods have preservatives in them to keep it on a shelf for a year or more and the most dangerous of preservatives are BHA and BHT!
Lastly is that health issues that we never seen before in dogs that seemed to start with the introduction of vaccines and "Convenient" foods found on store shelves with labels. Both are manmade and by the most part is synthetic in the products. Dogs never needed labels on their food or needed any manufactured food assistance prior to 1860. It is all about the money, and selling products food companies can't sell as human grade food and profits over health.
The scraps and middling's and other items dogs really would not eat in the wild along with stuff swept up from the floor is collected and sold to dog food manufacturers as part of the ingredients list for dog food as binders, fillers and unhealth sources of fiber. The rest of the ingredients that makes up many dog food products is full of chemicals, artificial colors, {Makes it more sellable to the owners to feed their dog} flavor enhancers, artificial vitamins and minerals along with meats collected from rendering companies that are decayed, or diseased and euthanized pets. How can ANY thing man manufactures be better than what dogs ate from nature and Thrived on since the beginning of time Before man seen a way to market and sell something that is in no way better than what is found in nature.
It's all about marketing, money and profits over health. Just because an animal can eat something does not mean it's healthy for them or that they can thrive on and live a long healthy life the way nature intended.
Can you please provide reliable evidence that "before 1860 dogs only ate wild game". Your vaccine garbage has been so resoundingly debunked that I'm not giving it time.
Omg bless you this is the greatest truth ever
That's because your information about what dogs ate before commercial food is false.
Nature never "intended" anything. Wild dogs die waaay young and more often. Also, vaccines on the whole have waaay more benefits than risks. For humans AND dogs
I agree kibble is bad i feed mine a little kibble but with ollie frozen raw dogfood. Mine are wolfdogs and they cant live on kibble goes right thru them. Plus have meat market by me that sells bison lamb deer and elk meat but i do cook it before i give to them they also get uncooked lamb shank bones
Balance is a selling point from the kibble companies. My dogs and cats eat meat, ground bone, skin, fat, and organs. That is balanced. I am a multi-pet household, an ex groomer, and a cat and dog rescuer of many hundreds of animals. This gives me lots of anecdotal evidence. My pets live into their late teens or longer, with a minimum of vet care. I have been feeding raw over 20 yrs and I have fed kibble fed animals usually easily transition. It has been found that many kibbles are contaminated. People have short memories. Do we not remember the dogs and cats who were getting sick and dying because of kibble? If there are reasons to feed a cooked food to pets, I can buy that, but I would never see kibble as an alternative.
Because they lose business if you’re dog is on raw
0:49 what they are referring to is people will find the cheapest cut of meat and or ground meat, slice the package and drop it in the dish, with nothing else.
So dry food (kibbles) for dogs is bad, and now it's raw food?? So what do dogs eat!??
When I clicked on this video, I mistakenly thought you were a podcast made by the company I purchased my raw dog food from - BJ's Raw. 🤣
I quickly realized.
I can purchase complete meals, or a wide variety of ingredients and make up my own meals for my dog. She has a good variety, including bones, fish, organ meat, various meats from rabbit, goat, venison, beef,, chicken, turkey, etc; She has raw goat milk, raw duck feet, dehydrated rabbit feet with the fur still on, as treats. She has been offered the regular dog food treats/biscuits at the day care center she goes to and turns up her nose. She doesn't care for any of the "food" items they offer her, but they don't want to give her the raw treats she gets at home, so she goes without while she is there. She is high energy! If you follow the same practices of cleanliness in your kitchen, when feeding your dog, as you do when handling raw meat you are preparing for yourself, the risk is minimized. I think the risks of a lifetime of highly processed kibble are worse and you are setting yourself and your dog(s) up for a world of hurt later in life.
But each to their own!
The argument that dogs aren't wolves and they evolved to eat what we ate is a terrible argument for kibble. With their logic, it would be more natural to feed them random table scraps because they evolved to survive on that.
Totally agree
It's a terrible argument for raw too. Plus, I have never heard that used as an argument for kibble.
@@shakeyj4523 people on these forums that are uneducated tend to use that argument. I see it weekly, if not daily. I laugh and move on as my healthy dogs gulp down their raw chicken necks and duck heads.
@shakeyj4523 You've never heard that argument? It's literally the only argument they have for feeding a dog the standard kibble, aka 70% grains and vegetables.
@@SelmaAymara No, it is an argument in favor of dogs being adapted to human food, which they are. Human scraps to be exact. So there is nothing wrong with feeding grains and vegetables. There IS a problem with feeding highly processed food for both dogs and humans. There is also a problem with the random person trying to feed a dog if they don't have a clue what they are doing.
I feed a raw diet to my dogs using grocery store purchased meats with the occasional wild hunted animal meat. My dogs live in the country, and get lots of time outside in the grass and dirt. I respectfully disagree with the notion that we should cook our store bought meat. Even city dogs get outside and have access to grass and dirt.
I 💯 agree with you!
I luv your content i find it very informational i used to me trying to pick out dog food
Thank you! ❤️
👍. I discovered mold in my high end kibble bag. I didn’t se/. Smell it until we were 3/4 the way through the bag. My dog had the loose stools for weeks. After that we switched to raw and gently cooked. Poops are now perfect and she loves meal time.
Love to hear that!
So do you test your raw and undercooked food for bacteria and other pathogens?
After loosing 2 dogs to stomach problems due to kibble, I fed my American Akita with raw food since she was a puppy.
Se grew healthy and after a while she rejected raw food. So I started slightly cooking her food leaving the inner part raw. She lived to be 13 years old. Always healthy.
Feeding kibble is a kind of animal abuse
@@enriquerojas9758 And I had a white Boxer who never had anything but kibble, and lived to the ripe old age of 15. How many 15 year old Boxers have you ever heard of? Your diet is even more dangerous than commercial food, because you violated all the food safety protocols. I guess because my Boxer lived to be 15, Kibble is better than what you feed. Game, point and match. Feeding bacteria laden undercooked food is a kind of animal abuse.
The healthier a dog’s gut microbiome is from eating fresh whole foods, the more stronger their digestive systems are. My dog has been on raw for 4 1/2 yrs… complete and balanced diy, Darwin’s, BJs, Rawfeeding Miami, Steve’s Real, Viva raw, Answer’s, Primal, Stella’s, etc. I add whole food supplements if not complete, and rotate every few weeks. She can eat a rotten piece of meat and still be fine. Not that I would purposely feed it to her, but if she happens to eat a spoiled piece of raw meat, I don’t freak out.
Well, fact is, my dogs are healthy and they become no industrial food, no chemicals, ... No vet needed. Ask yourself - who want to make business out of your dog, ... the market for pets is bigger, than for babies!!! Keep them in mind!!! And, who is paying for the ‚research‘👍👍👍 Many greetings from Germany
Could this argument work with cats as well??
Why wouldn't it. You need to meet nutritional needs no matter the animal.
Works even more for cats!
It absolutely does. Cats can tend to be a bit harder to transition though. They also have a more rigid nutrient requirement that can make balancing their meals a bit more complex (Cats ABSSOLUTELY MUST have a source of Taurine in their diet, as their body does not fabricate it naturally).
I have 2 raw fed cats that were rescued as kittens, they are now 12yrs old, in perfect health , shiny, lithe , with abundant energy, perfect teeth and very happy.
@@Lola-wv1cy That's the thing you started them as kittens trying to transition when they're older is like trying to get us to change our ways when we get older. You're lucky I'm putting down a 5-yr-old cat tomorrow that is full of cancer. I do blame the food even though Science Diet, Blue Buffalo, Iams we're supposed to be good. When a vet tells you a 5yr-old cat isn't supposed to be getting cancer something's wrong. They always have had fluoride chemical-free water. I learned that when it killed 3 tarantulas. My cat's used to live until 18-20
Your website is down 😢 Was hoping to sign up to your email list 😊
We’re actually switching it up! Stay tuned ☺️
mine gets fed a mix of raw meat and bone from the butcher, raw fruits, cooked veggies, high quality kibble, and canned food. heck his dinner right now is a mix of wet food, dry food, egg, egg shell, raw chicken foot, and some strawberries.
They have to PROVE their finding! Dogs are not wolfs and because, of all the breeding changes dogs definitely have changed and many NOT be able to eat raw. They neglect to take into account the crazy breeding changes that have happened to dogs.
Please consider reviewing Smack dog food, would love to know your thoughts on it!
I love raw feeding and I know it isn't fit for every dog/cat but some people stayed with us for awhile and she was literally just buying things like ground beef and just raw chicken breasts for her dog, she never did any research really and she would add some things that she thought were healthy but weren't, like corn and rice. I know they can digest this but have many issues digesting things like this. Any suggestion I would ever make (even if I had proof) she would basically just shut me down or shut down any thought that something might be bad for her dog. I honestly do not understand why people are like this but I do understand that I cannot force anyone into believing this or following this diet, I just was really uncomfortable of the fact she was doing certain things everyday that I just don't agree with and that I know could harm the dog.
I fed my dogs whole cow stomachs, chewed grass included. Wolves rip open the stomch and eat the plants the prey ate. Then they ear the meat. Pet dogs eat horse, deer, herbivore droppings to add things not in the meat of the prey, or human grade beef and chicken.
Wolves also live shorter lives than domesticated dogs
They die younger mainly due to wolf-on-wolf violence - more often than even from encounters with grizzlies.
@@SnowySpiritRuby Yeah there's lots of injuries they sustain especially in the busted tooth and bone categories, life's tough for any wildlife, especially apex.
This idea of 'fads' is really irritating to me as I'm from the time when kibble was only just starting to gain traction here in Australia which was in the 1990's, even then it was only used as a supplement at best to top up vitamins and minerals and never as a meal, our home made recipes (note; NOT rice and mince, I can't wait for this to disappear) was what made the meal.
Then we skip forward to 2007 and my puppy was suddenly a survivor in the dog food crisis, up until then I was the weird one for not feeding him a bag of kibble which was now the entire meal, vets also gave advice on what to feed during this time though had been hostile to me for home feeding until the crisis but continued afterwards saying I was a nut for home feeding.
But how could I trust the same companies that dosed their food with melamine and pretended nothing was wrong?
How did people just go back and buy/endorse mindlessly pretending nothing had happened with these companies?
Skip forward again to nowadays when I got my newest puppy as the old boy of 2007 passed on, vets are clueless on what to feed beyond a bag of kibble but less hostile to home feeding, meanwhile allergies and tooth decay are rife and a dog's lifespan is half that of when I was a kid.
Meanwhile the recipes passed along in the family (pre-1900 era, probably 1860's minimum before it was written down) for the dogs have yet to fail us during anyone else's crisis.
Excellent, logical video. One of your best! I still feed my cats raw ground beef several times a week. Happy Purrsday!
I will always stand behind fed is best, but feed the best you can and do your research. Dont pick the prettiest bag. We live in a technological era, and we have access to information, get what you can afford, and look into food to learn as much as possible. Don't we want the best for our furry friends at the end of the day.
How about the lack of regulation that goes into the vitamin and mineral packs that are added to these kibbles and crappy "fresh" food options. How many thousands of dogs died because they didn't check the levels of a vitamin D? I will never trust a major dog food company that doesn't test the amount of something that can kill my dog
Facts!
My grand das beagle, never went to a vet and only are t able scraps (whole. Food lots of fish)He was 18 when some a%-$hole ran him over inacar.
prob this dudes grandfather to this channel!
The difference between 1 data point/ anecdotal evidence / lived experience and good ( as in QUALITY) research / meta analysis.
Not sure what you’re saying here
Cats are obligated to carnivores and dogs are facultative carnivores…my vet tried to tell me dogs are omnivores lol I laughed…the thing about the risk factor when your talking raw vs kibble is that there may be a risk to getting sick right away to eating raw however there’s a greater risk of getting sick eating kibble long term
This was so balanced and objective. I've been worried about what to feed mt 8 month mini Schnazzer. Trying raw and gently cooked. The raw have heels loose stools, but I didn't want to keep her on the Kibble so now I think I'll just gently cook her food and try and include everything she needs l, like muscle meant and organ meat but ni raw meaty bones. In fact, no cooked bones at all! But they can have baked n crushed eggshell for calcium, right?
Thank you so much! Try bone meal for a good calcium source ❤️
Does this apply to cats too at all 😭😭
Absolutely!
I disagree with your assumptions. Corporate dog food companies all prioritize profit over nutrition, just like the human food corporations. We are slowly being sicken by the food corporations because of greed and the FDA is complicit with that trend. This is no different with the corporate dog food trend.
I think there is validity to why you feel this why but I don’t think it’s as much of a conspiracy theory as this comment implies.
@@thebkpetsMars has quite the business model. Produce pet food and be the health care provider. But you can trust them.
@@thebkpetsMars has a very profitable business model, make the food and be the vet
i think raw food should be in diverse
Because they don’t make money on healthy dogs.
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Humans are not plant eaters either, research what a vestigial cecum means. Our saliva has enzymes that pre digests our food, we don't chew the cud, we are hind gut fermenters. We also cook our food, which is another form of pre-digestion. We evolved a throwing arm to hunt for our good. I will show you a doctor who explains the optimal human diet (we are closer to cats then dogs in our dietary needs) th-cam.com/video/eAhe6BkLTOo/w-d-xo.html Human anatomy debunks the ridiculous notion that we are plant eaters.
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Kibble is emergency diet, not daily
Oddly enough kibble wasn't a thing when I was a kid and kicked off around the 1990's for us here in Australia, even then it was used more as a supplement to top up vitamins and minerals, and was cautioned against being used as the entire meal.
I poach my dog's food, if the raw thing makes ya nerv
This is what’s wrong with the world now you all rely on research aka another person opinion aka massa instead of putting it to test yourself,
You think a person testing something themselves on their own dogs is the same as clinical research studies on dogs?
Research is as far from "opinion" as you can get. The entire point is to guard against bias, and look for evidence based facts. It is the entire point of the peer review process. To make sure it is NOT opinion, and is well based on well designed studies. Anecdotal evidence gathered by "putting it to the test yourself" is worthless. You really should educate yourself before you write comments like that.
@@thebkpets The idea of clinical "research" is a very washed-up term. "Research/science"" really means who ever funded the "studies" will get the results they want. I would never ever trust any studies put out there. The first thing I look for in a "study" is who funded it and how it was conducted? I have yet to read a "study" that wasn't funded by a coporation selling something. That goes for human "studies" as well.
Eating is the most instinctual thing in all life forms. We don't need dudes in white coats, cooped up in a lab telling us what to eat. I trust the knowledge of my ancestors any day before I believe a thing corporations/government tell me.
@@Uilani-g4m Facts! The same thing was done was with lard vs cooking oil and butter vs margarine.
Research and 'science' has been pay-to-win for a very long time.