Switching to taste of the wild - Page 3

 Jacko, your post doesn't make sense. The raw is gone before the kibble gets there, and from the day before, that kibble is so far along it hardly matters in most cases. The actual danger (not how your "tummy likes it") with raw and kibble is that if you feed them in the same meal, the raw may sit in the digestive tract longer than it should, waiting for the kibble to go through, thus allowing bacteria and pathogens that may otherwise prove harmless a chance to "take hold." A dog's digestive tract is short enough that food moves through it too quickly to affect the dog when fed biologically appropriate food. 

Digestion is different, I agree. But, there is one thing, people became so "anal" and overcousious about things, but sometimes, credit needs to be given to the body.

I mix raw and kibble in one seating. I add chicken, fish and beef bones. It is 30/70.
I travel a lot and sometimes I cant haul 40 pounds of raw with me. I take kibble.

Stomach is not sensitive unles we make it, or there is a problem with a dog. In europe, kibble was not an option. We had old bread, rice, noodles... "garbage" meat from the butcher and, hopefully a bargain with the butcher for some bones. My dogs ate the same meal twice in a row. Veggies were the once available in the season and so vere fruits. We had an orchard and my dogs helped themselves to the apples.Then I prepped something else and they never had any problems. Never. I could change it on them instantly and they were just fine.
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I was hesitant to post but this is just an experience and an opinion.
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Forgot to add that the kibble I feed is TOTW salmon. The bison did some serious damage to my dogs well being, too rich!

i mix raw with kibble. I feed Orijen 6 fish with raw (beef, chicken, quail, duck). along with vertex when i'm working him really hard.

    Mark

 Of course you can mix raw and kibble. You will be fine 99.9% of the time. For the worriers, we have to acknowledge that there definitely is a risk, and some dogs have become very ill. I have done it. I will do it again. But again, I know the risks and sometimes choose to ignore them. People need to know that those are the risks and decide for their particular dog. 

As far as TOTW goes I would try either the new lamb one or the Pacific Stream (fish) one. The protein level in these are 25%. I have tried the other 2, but the high protein gave my dogs the diarrhea.

Since TOTW now has a lamb based food that has no fish or chicken in it, I am going back to TOTW for my male.