Ignore this breeder. Being rude when one believes something works ain't the way to go! Go elsewhere!
Many Vets are 'against' a raw diet as they are tied into commercial dog food as well as drug companies - so there's a conflict of interests.
There are a lot of additives in commercially based foods 2 pad them out. The 1st canned meat in the UK was 'pal' in the middle 1960s. B4 then dogs had been fed extras from the human table, my Aunt cooked extra veg for example with mince. Weekly they would get a raw egg instead. Think about what dogs would eat in the wild?
As tinned dog food became popular companies decided to add other things, i.e. wheat, flour, a little meat ....... reading the ingredients would turn my stomach sometimes, very little actual meat.
Hounds in the UK are fed dead stock .......... usually on the bone or boiled for hours with kibble. OH the smell
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Tripe - fed raw or cooked:
YUK but dogs love it. 'butchers tripe' (a UK tinned meat) the company then added carrots, peas etc. to the tins ...... a bit of a gimmick in my opinion though my lady never turned her nose up.
Have a look at the BARF web-site. Bones and Raw Food. A friend feeds his 3 whippets on bones, raw meat and raw chicken wings plus mixing up fruits/veg in chicken stock (like we have stock to hand
)with minerals twice a week. He also throws in minced beef once a week mixed with veg. . He has a separate freezer for storage and is Very Well Organised
In the wild a dog will not get a 'balanced diet' any more than humans do! In the wild dogs will scavanage. They eat the paunch first [I think] then tear the meat away. Depending on how hungry they might be. This will dig bones into the ground to 'save for later'
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Cooked chicken bones can cause damage due to splinters. Raw young chickens wings, carcase and neck bones will keep the teeth clean. When I was young dog poo was white crumbly chalky deposits, because the dog absorbed all the goodness from the raw diet.
Although my cocker had commercial foods: meat, mixer and Shapes biscuits ......... plus raw veg., particularly carrots. She had to have 2 Shapes biscuits [the recipe goes back to the 1930s] which she ate in the kitchen, plus a carrot which she took upstairs 2 bed. Carrying it like a fag in her gob. She would sit by DH whilst he was preparing our meals and he would drop cabbage, cauliflower, carrot onto the floor 4 her.
I would go raw feeding next time, our butchers will prepare dog packs in small amounts for freezing.
