You are correct, Rebel, that our modern dogs will probably survive whatever crap is put up on the shelf by modern marketing, and will be bought and fed by people who just don’t think beyond the cute and clever commercials.
But, do these pet food manufacturer believers really trust, or want to live on Ensure, Lean Cuisine, NutriSystem, Slim fast, etc, year after year, themselves? Would they (or you) expect perfect health in the long run?
Our dogs will not drop like flies if we feed them crap, and neither will we. But do we really want to pay for all the consequences of eating that crap in the long run, or see them suffer the consequences?
Just because we don’t drop from a crappy fast food diet immediately, (and our dogs don’t either), it doesn’t mean it is a sensible long term strategy for our/their optimum health, and minimal health expenses/bills.
Please don’t get confused - I really don’t care what anyone feeds their dogs, or themselves, but it drives me nuts when people think a bag of over-cooked extruded pink slime, mixed with all sorts of stuff no dog would select out of a trash can, then spray -coated with a few basic vitamins, is equal to a fresh natural diet that includes raw meaty bones, some cheap organ meats, and a few cooked vegetable table scraps.
I just can’t understand why people who consider themselves conservative when it comes to politics can’t figure out how much they are manipulated by modern advertising in any other area but politics.
But, all of you, I don’t care what you feed your pets. I only offer my opinion for those who have ears to hear.
The rest of you would do our country much more good if you vented your spleen at the crappy bunch in DC. Pretty soon they will be telling you how much you can eat, of what, how it can be seasoned, and probably will be demanding that we turn in all our family pets as useless eaters.
Many of the chronic diseases seen today in domestic dogs and cats are a result of over-vaccination and poor (i.e.commercial kibble) diets. I keep hearing/reading about the “dangers of raw” and yet — it’s the commercial stuff that keeps getting recalled for exactly those pathogens warned about in raw!
Anyone who thinks kibble is species-appropriate nutrition hasn’t been paying attention. The reason it came into being 50 years ago or so wasn’t because dogs and cats were malnourished! On the contrary, actually. It was created to give the human food industry a way to profit on the leftovers from the slaughterhouses rather than having to pitch it (as in most cases they should have been made to do!) Owner convenience was a great selling point also — and clearly the years of brainwashing have worked since so many firmly believe that what they call “human food” is actually bad for domestic animals. Unreal!