I’m not really sure why I first entertained the idea of feeding Sweety a raw food diet? There’s a store on West Boulevard in Vancouver called True Carnivores that I used to drive past, I may have just stopped in one day out of curiosity? I do know that I started feeding Sweety a raw diet in 2004 when she was about 9 years old, she’s going on 15 years old today!
After researching the raw food diet for dogs, I remember thinking; “why isn’t everyone feeding their pets raw”? It doesn’t take a canine genome scientist to figure out that there’s no way a pet food company in 70ish years, could produce anywhere near adequate nutrition for animals that took nature thousands of years.I mean really!!
An interesting fact; the oldest dog ever recorded, a 29-year-old Australian cattle dog named Bluey, died in 1939, several years before commercial pet food was invented, and that, of the two oldest dogs in recent years, one was fed primarily on kangaroo and emu meat.
Reasons pet owners don’t feed raw:
- Believe it’s too expensive
- Believe it’s too time consuming
- Believe for some reason that vitamin & mineral fortified pet foods are better than a raw diet
- Brainwashed by veterinarians and pet food companies.
When you consider that financial resources of the world’s two biggest pet food players Mars and Nestle, the last point above is pretty easy to digest.
Sweety has a long way to go to break Bluey’s record, but one thing for sure, is that she and Zeus (my recently adopted Pit Bull) will be eating raw until they cross the Rainbow Bridge.
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