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Quote: Originally posted by janey47 on 10/2/2013

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I know that in the wild dogs would be eating raw meats, but our dogs are now domesticated.
It bothers me that they would just not be used to dealing the new bacteria etc they would have to cope with if its raw, , as cooking kills off a lot of bad stuff.

I have heard some good reports about feeding raw, but I have never been quite brave enough to do it
Should it be introduced slowly? And what about fibre? Eating 100% meat where is the roughage/fibre?

Sorry for all the questions Wendy, but having had one dog really poorly, £1,200 vet bill!! I am keen to learn as much as I can.. Thanks

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Our cats are much healthier since we changed to raw diets.

They used to have a mixture of kibble and pouches. We first got rid of kibble and only bought as "natural" as we could by way of posh tins. Then we did a trial on Honeys raw cat food (husband thought I was mad) and have not looked back. They took to it quickly and the one cat with health problems is lively and as she was 5-6 years ago, a much better weight, with all 3 having really glossy coats. I am vegetarian but the food comes in frozen packages rather like pate and is manageable to serve. There is less waste and I have not noticed any real cost difference in food (they have the odd bit of fish as a change) but a lowering in vet bills.

Given health problems of previous animals and the difference we have noticed, we wish we had changed years ago.

I would expect dog meat to have anything usable in it. Knacker yards use to sell into the petfood trade and for all I know still do. They remove all fallen and casualty stock from Farms and Equestrian places so the likelyhood of bits of everything being in petfood is high and there's nothing wrong with that. In my day, anything which wasn't suitable for use was put into rendering and not into any type of food products.

I'd rather know a proper piece of meat was in my dogs food than think there was bits and pieces of poultry rubbish in it. At the end of the day these companies aren't going to put first quality meat products into pet food and they need an outlet to get rid of the unusable byproducts.

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Quote: Originally posted by robnchar on 12/2/2013

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Im still trying to see a problem ! Apart from fraud theres no health issue and id quite happly eat horse and have in Romania . Some years ago I worked on a farm that use to back in 1900's have a horse slaughter house .
When it comes down to the problem of horse meat in processed foods its pretty obvios some where like Romania will not even see an issue . The real issue is food miles ! We are told to use our cars less and our food has had the equivalent trip a gap year student would make . Thats the scandel not that Romanias have put horse meat in our burgers .Its the fact its come from Romania in the first place .

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