She's concerned about the diseases that can be transmitted through raw meat and bones, or through spoilage or poor sanitation.
Be very careful in selecting, storing, and preparing anything raw. Food grade - no butcher discards. And remember to clean your work surfaces thoroughly after the raw meat sits on them.
.. . iow, you'll have to use better-than-human food prep protocol, because cooking kills a lot of germs. So no pork, no bear meat.
Remember that back in the days of dogs running wild and eating raw food, a LOT of them died. They were just wild animals, not family pets, and if one - or a dozen - died, nobody missed them.
Most vets aren't up on nutrition but what you say is right.
Poodles are a little different than most dogs as they have very sensitive stomachs and are succeptible to bloat and other problems. One of the top breeders of show dogs in England has always kept her dogs on a raw diet with only great results for many years. The same thing goes for my breeder and many others who breed top of the line poodles.
You are right, there will be no butcher scraps, there actually is a place 5 minutes from me where my breeder used to get the meats for the dog when she lived by me many years ago.
I'll be doing the prepping, so no issues there. The recipe is roughly-Green Beans, cauliflower, kale, etc. put in a cuisinart, you add raw meat to it, changing meats all the time and freeze it into sealed portions in the freezer. So the freshness shouldn't be an issue. The meats they can eat are chicken, lamb, beef, venison, maybe another, I forget.
I will ask her about your questions here and if I can cook the meats to be on the ultra-safe side.
Remember that back in the days of dogs running wild and eating raw food, a LOT of them died. They were just wild animals, not family pets, and if one - or a dozen - died, nobody missed them
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They were likely must more succeptible to eating tainted or diseased meat as well I would imagine. If they get hungry enough they would eat a carcass that was dead for a while.