Why do I think these people were too embarrassed to admit that they tried tasting the pet food?
Listen, lots of people will take out a portion of the kibble, and stick it in their pockets for treats. Give the pup a treat for doing something desirable, ala “Clicker Training”, but then forget to wash their hands, and stick other things in the contaminated pockets, etc. and so forth.
Healthy dogs can handle salmonella just fine, because their intestinal tracts are so different from ours. Theirs are short and relatively straight, unlike our long convoluted ones. They eliminate salmonella and other pathogens before these can multiply in their digestive tracts.
Unfortunately we can’t, so these pathogens build up in our tracts, multiply exponentially, overwhelming our immune systems, and we get very sick.
We have to cook our foods to get rid of these pathogens, but dogs aren’t bothered by them, unless they are in very poor health (probably from kibble) to begin with.
Moral of the story, feed your dogs a raw diet, and carefully wash your hands and all surfaces touched by the raw food. Your dogs will be much healthier, and so will you.
Hopefully this will put to rest all those who warn against raw feeding because it proves we humans are just as vulnerable from kibble as we are from raw. And, for heaven’s sake, don’t feed your dogs raw hamburger. That isn’t a natural food, and we probably shouldn’t be eating it unless we chop up the meat at home ourselves!
Dogs are scavenger carnivores. They thrive on raw meaty bones, road kill, whatever they are lucky enough to snag on the hoof or claw, and the “riper” the better! and they love the innards like stinky old tripe. Over the years however, they get really sick with modern diseases,from all the grains stuck in the kibble to keep the costs of kibble affordable.
They do not have the digestive juices required to digest grains and other carbs, unless these have passed through the digestive tract of their prey. You think our kibble food processors only use pre-digested grains and carbs?
Think again.
Just my two cents, and I don’t want to argue with those who choose to feed kibble, so I will just state my opinion, and post no more on the topic.
Feed your dog a good raw diet, a la Tom Lonsdale, and don’t let food processing companies come between you and your dog’s overall health, not to mention yours.
Most of us who feed raw meat to our dogs have the sense to wash our hands and surfaces after handling the same.
How many have the sense to wash their hands after handling kibble?