Has any body tried their dogs on a raw food diet? I have heard that a lot of health problems can be avoided because dry food is basicall garbage--I know we wouldn be healthy eating the same thing day after day. I am wondering if I should try this with my dogs... Any advice?|||I had all three of my dogs on a raw diet for about four months and they did GREAT on it. I utilized the info I got from: http://www.rawdogranch to prepare and balance their foods. It is time consuming and a lot of work and if you have a dog that has problems chewing or tend to gulp and swallow rather than chew, you may have to grind the raw meaty bones. Mine had no ill effect at all and I took care to pick out fresh meats, eggs etc. People used to drink egg nog which is made with raw egg, and if you go to a Japanese restaurant you can get a soup with a raw egg added and a classic hang-over treatment involves raw egg. Since rarely a person can get salmonella from egg product and handling raw meat and not washing hands properly, and since some have gotten salmonella then people are afraid of raw eggs. Dogs are hardier than people because they lick the grass and all sorts of things on it. It is a lot of work. If you are afraid of a total raw diet you could consider cooking your dog's food. There are lots of recipes on the Internet. You could use the info at rawdogranch to get an idea of content but do not feed any cooked bones. Any time you change a diet, it can disturb a dogs digestion if you do it suddenly. Another thing to consider is foods on the market that are less at risk because they don't contain wheat, corn or soy or wheat or corn gluten. I have been feeding a commercial food that doesn't and haven't had problems with the food. The best track record seems to go to Paul Newman's Organic dog food. They don't outsource anything now, from what I have heard, as far as food production and they use domestic quality and organic foods. What I use is Nature's Recipe.|||In saying that dry dog food is basically garbage, most brands are. My Mom works at a animal feed store and after searching for the perfect food for our breeding dogs and puppies, we found that the best ever dog food that can be fed to all ages of dogs is Canidae. It is the next best thing to raw food diet, because it has no fillers (meaning random grains or scrap meat thrown in just to make up the weight) and is not made from animal by products, and because it is made from all natural products, it can be fed to all life stages. You could go to the canidae web site to learn more if you are interested.|||A raw food diet is time consuming, and you need to know how to prepare and feed the foods to reduce the risk of samonella contamination. You will also need to make up batches of "veggie glop" to add to their diets. I suggest getting and reading the following book: (the library probably carries it) http://www.epinions.com/content_28749676鈥?/a>|||Raw diets are very time consuming. I have looked into them myself, but I can't commit that amount of time. And regarding dry food, if it is the "grocery" store type, ex: Purina, Pedigree, Alpo, Science Diet, etc. you are absolutely correct. You might as well feed them McDonald's everyday. However, if you go with the upper-end foods like Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul, Wellness, etc., then they are very good for them. These foods contain Human Grade ingredients, no filler, and are all natural. Check out the ingredients for yourself, I think you will be impressed. Good Luck.|||I've never had a problem feeding raw. Only one of my dogs won't touch it, so I feed him table scraps, like they did in the days before vets and petfood became the norm

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