HOW TO FEED YOUR DOG A RAW DIET

How To Feed Your Dog a Raw Diet

In this article, I'm gonna be discussing raw food is it right for your dog, I'm gonna go over the scientific studies addressing where our food show you how to feed raw to your dog, and lastly addressing the question should you feed only raw or can you just feed it to some of the time.

Here's what you need to know to ensure that the raw food is both healthy and safe.

For thousands of millennia, our dogs companions have subsisted on diets of raw meats and human dinner scraps. Around 60 years ago, commercially prepared pet foods began growing in popularity, supplanting the more natural diets of our dogs.

Definitely the scientific community has differing beliefs on the benefits of raw pet food and this is what some of the veterinary experts have to say.

Only one study has looked at the nutritional adequacy of these diets, and it found significant inadequacies and imbalances. The most important of these is likely altered calcium-phosphorus ratio, which can have devastating effects on bone development.

A large scale review article examined historical reports of bacterial pathogens and they found bacteria such as salmonella Campylobacter E coli 0157:H7 (the cause of “hamburger disease”), Yersinia enterocolitica, Listeria, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium botulinum, Staphylococus aureus, and Bacillus cereus.

All potentially dangerous veterinary and human pathogens were documented to be present in raw dog food.

The risk to benefit ratio of feeding raw foods weighs heavily on the risk side. That is, the risks of feeding raw food diets (given the scientific information presently available) very greatly outweigh any perceived benefits. Yeah you really have to stop and think about this. 

No studies conducted really assessing the benefits of raw food diets for dogs, many veterinarians, and dog owners say the evidence really speaks for itself, and here's some of the perceived benefits what I've observed many other dog owners have seen from feeding raw food.

Health benefits

shinier hair coat eliminated dog odor beti better body muscle to fat ratios cleaner teeth and breath decreased itching, there's a healthy looking pup who has happen to be eating raw.

Normalized energy levels improved urinary tract health, better resistance to infections, increased mobility with a decrease in arthritic pain, decreased allergy symptoms and lower stool volume. There's another healthy-looking dog on raw food.

Concerns

I want to address some of the concerns a number one concern is food-borne illnesses such as Salmonella and E-coli, and the spread of these to humans. Other concerns include choking on bones and perforation of the stomach or intestines from bones. Feeding raw foods to sick or debilitated pets is another concern.

In truth Salmonella and E-coli are not well documented concerns for your dog. The stomach has a very highly acidic, making it very difficult for these organisms to survive. The short digestive tract of dogs also lowers the risk. And this makes me think about cleaning and hygiene.

The best way to protect yourself is simple, use common sense and practicing good hygiene, washing everything well making sure your hands are washed, you're not cutting those vegetables on that contaminated meat surface, and washing your pets bowls after feeding wrong.

An additional concern is choking on bones, intestinal obstruction or perforation, and the big thing. To prevent this, chop up the bones since a much smaller piece is prior to feeding.

Incorporating Raw Food

So how can you incorporate raw food into your dog diet?

You know a home raw diet should be very simple. When you're preparing a raw diet, you want to keep some of the basic food ‘groups’ in mind. Meat, chopped bones, and vegetables should be a large part of what you feed your dog, along with organ meat once or twice a week.

So if you're going to prepare raw food on your own, make sure you feed from the four principle ‘raw food groups’ Meat, Bones, Organ meats, Fruits and vegetables, and there's raw chicken in chicken backs, it's easiest to feed chicken as a meat and bone source if you're preparing the meat fresh chicken backs.

Chicken backs and thighs are an expensive, and a great way to start. After purchasing the chicken, you can wrap each piece individually and freeze it.  Defrost it overnight, and then chop it up in the morning. Defrosting overnight-allows it to become slightly soft, but not rubbery, and therefore easiest to chop.

Some raw advocates claim that if you don't exclusively feed raw, your dog won't get any of the health benefits. Yet in my opinion you can still get substantial benefits of feeding raw once or twice a week.

My older dogs Jesse he's now nearing 16 years old he eats raw once sometimes twice a week, and he's done phenomenally really avoiding the veterinarian period.