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!
You are correct.
With the exception of several human foods, such as broccoli in excess, onions, macadamia nuts, grapes, raisins, etc, a ‘home made’ pet food is superior to processed ‘fast food’ in every way.
My dogs have eaten raw beef [including hamburger] and beef organs for years and never gotten sick from it.
At least one, however, got very sick from ‘premium dog food’.
I feed a combination of high rated kibbles and raw.
As a caveat, you should *not* mix raw meat with kibbles.
The digestion rates for each are different.
Over-vaccination is a plague upon our pets.
It is also a very high profit margin ‘service’ for those who provide it.
The standard yearly DHLPP shot costs about $30, not including office visit charges but you can go to any farm store and buy it yourself for $6.
[be warned that the Leptospirosis vax provided is not even the correct serovar and is associated with severe side effects in many dogs]
Yearly titer tests are a far superior way to make sure your dog stays healthy.
See this also:
http://www.rabieschallengefund.org/education
I went through the rabies series myself last fall and I can tell you it was extremely unpleasant and I’m still not quite ‘over it’.
Imagine having to get a condensed version of that every 1-3 years but you can’t speak up and tell ayone how sick it makes you.
How many of you have had your vet tell you “it’s normal” for your dog to be ‘off’ for a few days after it had its shots?
I don’t think it’s “normal” at all.
Even my own vet, who still believes in the discredited mandatory ‘annual vax protocol” has my dogs stay at the clinic for 20 minutes, post-vax, in case they have a “reaction”.
‘so many firmly believe that what they call “human food” is actually bad for domestic animals.’
No, you misrepresent. It’s RAW that I object to. People want to spoil their animals with real regular food, fine, but raw is foolhardy. Why not cook it for the animals? Is that so terrible?