Feeding Your Dog With A Raw Dog Food

Many dog lovers nowadays get confused regarding the best type of food to give your best pet. As of today, two types of foods are being examined carefully as to which is better to use in feeding dogs. One is the commercial food and the other is a raw dog food. Loving your dogs means giving them the best diet and to do that, you have to be knowledgeable enough to choose the best menu to give your dog. It will be presented in this article both the boon and the bane of giving your best buddies raw foods.

From the word raw, it means uncooked. Uncooked or raw foods are thought to be something nutritious to the carnivores. They are claimed to lessen foul odors of the dogs and leave their teeth cleaner and healthier.

Historically, over a thousand years ago, dog ancestors have fed themselves another carnivores. This act is very similar to raw feeding. It is reasonable enough to feed your carnivorous pets with uncooked foods. However, this natural feeding cannot guarantee safe and better feeding because for one, uncooked foods contain a lot of bacteria which can be a reason of some infections and sickness in your dogs.

Raw foods, as mentioned, are considered more nutritious than the commercial ones. This is because commercial dog foods are prepared in such a way that they are heated at a very high temperature which of course could destroy the proteins, vitamins and minerals present. Although food manufacturers add supplements to this type to replace the lost proteins and vitamins, it still cannot guarantee that the supplement added could suffice the lost nutrients.

Commercial foods contain grains which trigger allergies to your pets. When grains are heated, their primary structure is altered giving off another substance. This substance is found out to cause most of the reported dog allergies. Another thing is that grains are hard for dogs to digest since the digestive organs of carnivores are designed to digest more of meats rather than grains.

Bacterial infection and bacterial poisoning are also possible with commercial foods because there is a great tendency that once they are not properly ingested, they will stay for a long while int the teeth of your carnivorous pets. This will trigger the propagation of bacteria.

One good thing for commercial foods is that there are food regulations and associations which they need to abide that will ensure the quality and safety of your pets. Raw feeding on the other hand does not have this kind of regulatory associations.

Dogs crush their foods, they do not chew them. Usually in raw feeding, the food is prepared whole so that your pet will joyfully crush and eat them. This is considered, however, not a good thing because there is a great possibility of dental fractures and consequently, obstructions in the intestines.

The decision is for you to make. Whether you decide to use a raw dog food in feeding your best friend or not, you have to make a lot of considerations. If possible, go to some veterinary doctors and have them check and evaluate the health of your dogs. You have to know every now and then if what your dogs have eaten are properly ingested and digested. This is a safety practice for your pets to remain healthy.