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Originally Posted by MarKalAm
As with all comercial foods, dry is not good for dogs, actually its the worse type. You'd think wet food is, but no, its still bad, but not as bad.
A natural raw diet is the only way to guarentee a healthy, fit and happy dog. And it's not as expensive.
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I have two of my dogs on a raw diet and I couldn't be happier with how they are thriving on it.
However I get quite annoyed by comments like the above - that feeding raw is the ONLY way to have a healthy happy dog. What a load of bullocks! My dogs ate super premium dried food for years and they did well on it, just not as well as they now do on a raw diet.
Not every dog can eat a raw diet. I have an elderly dog here who I did change over to BARF but she has a lot of allergies and can't stomach red meat and a variety of other raw foods. She did worse on a raw diet than she did on dried food. So I feed her a combination of raw chicken and Artemis dried food and she is now back to being a healthy happy dog, as her allergies are being managed.
There are also a variety of medical conditions that create intolerance to raw foods, while I always recommend a raw diet, it is not suitable to every dog.
Sometimes I think raw feeders are doing themselves a disservice by being so gung ho about their diet, I LOVE feeding raw but there are many dogs out there who thrive on good quality dried food too.
Now to the thread at hand - we can't get Orijen in my country as it was pulled from the shelves due to the irridation issue, so I feed Artemis to one of my dogs which I am very happy with. I recommend Eagle Pack Holistic too.