Finn's food doesn't ever touch the ground. I hold the container out for him and he gets his chicken, and that's all she wrote. He chews it and swallows it and rarely ever does it fall onto the ground. No issues so far with feeding raw indoors or outdoors. Except for maybe eggs, because Finn and Freckles pick out the eggshells. They end up on the floor, but not for long... Dudley ends up eating them all.