Actually, your dog’s natural diet is probably simply human leftovers and such. Kibble is a very very modern thing for dogs to eat. I’m not sure it’s helpful to say dogs are not wolves. They are the same genus, dogs came from wolves, and it stands to reason their nutritional needs would be quite similar. To say that if dogs should be eating raw meat we should too is nonsensical since humans and dogs are quite different, our systems and dogs are not comparable.
Now, having said this, I’m not a rabid raw food advocate, I think people should feed what they’re comfortable with. But I do agree that vets are often very uninformed in the area of nutrition. I worked for a vet, and I know where they get the majority of their information. Dog food companies.
The vet I had while I was feeding raw was quite against it when I started. But, when she saw the results she was very impressed. My old dog at the time (who lived to be nearly 13) had the cleanest teeth you have ever seen on an older dog, and never had them cleaned. I’m sure it was from eating bones every day.
Again, I”m not trying to change your mind. But there are a lot of good points in the raw food camp, and having done it myself for a number of years I assure you my dogs were quite healthy and my vet approved after her initial hesitation.
The point was not nutritional value to the vets. The point of the RD quote was BLATANT HEALTH RISKS - pets and their people who ended up with food poisoning because of their raw diets. I.e., salmonella, et al - the very thing in this recall. Poor strategy to bring up raw in a salmonella discussion.
Again, if humans have long since been cooking meats instead of raw - it also stands to reason that dogs have long been eating cooked along with them and their systems have likewise adjusted, gotten “soft”. Systems are different (not too much, compared to a horse), but we’re talking thousands of years of breeding and conditioning. Being the same species as the dawn of time doesn’t mean eating raw is still in them or us.