I have feed my dog Raw Chicken Backs, bones and all for years and he loves it, plus it's cheaper than commercial Dog Food. Dog instinctivly don't like cereal grains thats why they spray fats on the dry food just to get them to eat it.ABADY sounds good. I know Miller foods in Conn. makes a whole meat product for dogs [no fillers or unknown meat products]I believe the winner of this years [Best in Show] Westminster show uses their product.
Either I am misinformed, or this THREAD is WAY behind the news curve: the toxic dog food has been traced to a gluten additive in many brands of dog food, said additive being made from and provided by Chinese wheat, which had ILLEGALLY (as per Chinese law) been subjected to rat poison, (a rodenticide) which obviously had been applied to large quantities of wheat before harvest in order to squelch a rodent problem. Thanks China, thanks all you free-traders who kiss China's ass at all costs. Michael Savage was ballistic about this tonight. The only good thing to be said about this is that at least the rodenticide was "illegal" in China, but it somehow got past THEM and US/ one of the many BAD things to say about it is that there is NO logical reason we NEED to get anything like this from China, when our own farmers are being paid not to grow.
The reason I like ABADY is because it's the next best thing to the BARF diet ("bones and raw food" - which is what you feed). When I looked into doing BARF, I found out that to do it "right" you're supposed to use supplements and things to make sure they get a balanced diet (balanced for carnivore, not for human). In the wild, as you know, carnivores eat guts, intestines, bone marrow, etc., which give them additional nutrients beyond just "raw meat." I knew that I don't even feed myself a good/balanced diet, so there was no way I would get it right for my dogs. But ABADY is essentially "BARF in a box" - it's a balanced diet made for carnivores without all the additives of commercial foods.
Note: When I bred my bitch, ABADY is such a complete food, that we didn't need to give her any supplements during gestation OR nursing (except I gave her an egg shell or two during nursing, just to boost calcium). I don't know if you know about breeding, but that is HUGE to not require supplements during breeding. Think of all the supplements they put human women on when they are pregnant. Dogs usually get a wad of supplements when they are pregnant and when they are nursing. But with ABADY, it's a COMPLETE food, so no supplements were necessary, and both Mother and Pups were all healthy as could be. (The 5-year old "pup" that I kept from that litter has NEVER required Vet services because she's so healthy... never vomited or had diarrhea in her life, etc.)
Yep, I'm sold on ABADY, obviously. :-)
And a bonus is it's shipped to my doorstep by UPS - don't even have to go to a store to pick it up!