Various pet parents toss a chicken leg or raw burger meat to their dog and refer to it as a raw diet. Wrong! This is totally unbalanced and in such case vets would be correct to comment against feeding raw in this way!

However with correct composition of muscle meat, bones and organs, raw diets promise incredible results and drastic changes in pet lives. Though hard to believe, some vets are not educated in nutrition. Many times nutrition classes are lead by large commercial pet food manufacturers hence making them sided to dry food feeding.

How can a dry food diet having minimal nutritional value and full of additives, preservatives, aflatoxina and fillers be better than a pure meat diet? Unfortunately genuine pet parents who want only the best for their fur babies sometimes don't stop to think about this question. 

Three questions to ask a vet who frowns on proper raw feeding:

1. If bacteria is a concern raised, ask what the difference is between handling raw food for human and pet consumption. Most families handle raw meat regularly in their household for their own consumption. Ask for the statistics on people who have gotten sick from feeding raw pet food or is this just an assumption?

2. Ask why kibble are allowed to have ingredients which are not human grade, synthetics and fish oils that begin to go rancid as soon as the bag is opened and how such are better than a clean species appropriate pure diet?

3. Ask why dogs need high carbohydrate diets. Most dry foods contain over 50% in sugars. Raw meals have less than 7% carbohydrates which come from vegetables in the raw mixes. Dogs are not born to eat high carbohydrate diets which are the main cause of obesity, cancer and diabetes. 

4. Ask why a diet which lacks moisture is healthier than a high moisture diet which is important for pet kidney health. Dry food diets are dry, keeping a pet in constant state of dehydration hence taxing the kidneys. Raw diets contain 70% to 80% moisture.