Quote Originally Posted by GreyhoundGirl
I'm trying to get my mother to belive me about the gains of feeding raw. I have tried to get her to belive you countless people out there, but she keeps going on and on and on about how the best thing you can feed a dog is Iams. I found a lot of websites and threads and such, but she just won't belive me. She says things like "all these people say that they are vets and such, but for all you know they are all a bunch of wierd-os" " dogs can't live on chicken and eggs " " chicken has salmonella "
As an ex-Microbiologist I guess I qualify as one of those bonifide wierdos. Why don't you pick your favorite top 3 reasons to feed raw from lot of websites and threads and such and I'll refute em?

I'll tell ya the first thoughts I have when visiting one of the Raw sites:

1. This will be religion not science.

2. Are they selling anything connected with Raw food, or readily have links on the front page to those who do sell (e.g. receive payments for clinks on the links)? In another words do they have economic gain to make?

3. How long will it take for them to attack the medical or commercial dog food establishment, with distortions?

4. How long will it take before they dig up half truths and present it as fact with no scientific journal citations? This is rapidly followed by personal testimonials as though that justifies the claims?

There is no benefit of feeding raw over a high quality commercial dog food. If you wish to feed your dog a balanced raw diet then that is a choice being made by you. It is a human decision based on human perceptions about food. Night after night when my dogs finish their Propet dry dog food in 20-30 secs for one dog, and about 1.5 minutes for the other I do not worry too much about them liking the taste. When I ask them if they want to eat the female lets out a woo woo woo, while the male runs into the kitchen and stands by his bowl. I interpret that as a positive sign that they enjoy their food. When they come upstairs after they are done eating and proceed to come over to me for pets wagging their tails, I do not suffer any guilt for having fed them that nasty commercial dry dog food. I'll side with your mommy-person. Iams or some other high quality dog food will do just fine.