I agree with you, at least in part.
But, let’s think about it a bit. What percentage of the overall body weight of the squirrel is the corn in the stomach?
Isn’t the corn “unprocessed”, and isn’t it also mixed with the digestive enzymes in the quarrel’s stomach?
Compare that to the crummy denatured overly processed poor quality corn mixed in with dog food, and maybe you will understand my position.
I agree that “exclusively flesh is not a healthy diet. Dogs need organ meats, raw bone with the marrow for all the enzymes, and small amounts of ripe fruits which they might find in nature.
Some folks actually do feed whole kill. I don’t, but try to get an approximation by including the above in his meals.
My reward is clean teeth, sweet breath, no body odor, healthy coats, no itching, far fewer fleas or ticks, if any at all.
Best reward to me is that the poops are quite firm, much less stinky, and crumble away to a white powder after a few days in the sun. Oh, and I don’t have to express their anal glands, because the firmer stool takes care of that.
But, to each his own. I offer my opinion only for consideration of the benefits.
>>Some folks actually do feed whole kill. I don’t, but try to get an approximation by including the above in his meals.<<
I don’t kill my Papillon’s dinner, nor do I spend a whole lot of time and money feeding her.
Iams mixed with live cultured yogurt gives me all the benefits you describe.
And it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.