Fair enough, just trying to help. Decent wet has no maize or floors weeping either, it also had twice he meat content.

Veg and rice don't make a complete raw meal. Bones, offal and meat do. A complete raw diet is made up of 80% ish meat, not 33%.

Yes tripe is offal. But where's the offal in the lamb or beef one? Where's the bone? Offal? Liver?

But hey ho, up to you what to feed.

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Oscar's teeth are very clean as it happens, but I appreciate your point and have, when I have managed to be organised, thrown the odd raw bone into the diet as well.

For someone like myself (disorganised and quite time-pressured basically) this seems a good way to feed an essentially raw diet. If it fits the nutrient profile and the ingredients are all basically raw meat and veg and a bit of brown rice then I don't see how it could possibly be a bad diet.

I don't imagine they spend time getting the best cuts of meat for this kind of food so I imagine the "meat" content has a reasonable amount of "offal" in it anyway.

Anyway I really don't think there's much point discussing it. My original worry was that I was feeding my dog too high a protein content which was leading to a skin issue - I kneejerked a thread about a kibble I had been reccommended and then actually had a proper look at what I'm feeding and the protein content is much lower than I thought it might be so I don't actually have the problem I thought I had. It's a complete food that to me is better than kibble or a cooked meat diet which give Oscar the squits more often than not. SO as far as I'm concerned there is no problem anymore. If people want to continue to discuss what makes a "proper" raw diet though... feel free.

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