GSD Scratching. Why do they do it? - Page 4

Wow if it's a better diet than you eat I suggest you make some fast changes, because your diet must be REALLY bad!

Ingredients:

60% Beef, Beef Hearts, Beef Livers, Ground Beef Bones,

40% Organic Kale, Organic Carrots, Organic Yams, Organic Broccoli, Organic Apples, Cranberries,

less then 1% Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, Organic Parsley, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Kelp, Alfalfa, Salmon Oil, Mixed Tocopherols (source of vitamin E).

There is so little coconut oil it the feed that this whole issue is moot.

You are right.  My primary issue with premade mixes is the high % of veg, and low % of organ meat as well as all the additives.  So funny, first the dog food manufacturers tried to scare the crap out of people about feeding a RAW diet.  People saw for themselves how their dogs thrived.  So the dog food manufactures are jumping on board the RAW gravy train themselves just so they don't miss out on that piece of the pie, but for them to make optimum profits it's still imperative  they convince people that  they couldn't possibly be  smart enough to figure out a healthy diet for a dog on their own, which is just more company line bullshit. 

All the dire doom and gloom predictions of most RAW fed dogs developing maladies caused by poor nutrition or bacteria or people being stricken with bacterial infections  related to RAW feeding never happened. 

What did happen was mass quantities of dogs were poisioned and died thanks to the commercial dog food manufacturers using tainted gluten in their products.  No thanks, I think my animals are safer being fed a RAW diet I control. 

Hey, my dog eats raw, but she ate kibble for her first 6 months and I often let her have human treats, such as the end of my burrito or whatever (and the 20 tortillas she stole off the counter last week. Sigh). All that stuff is like a slow poison. But I started her on the Nzymes kit (five different mixtures at once) on Saturday, and NO MORE ITCHY FEET. Looking forward to seeing fewer ear issues.

Problem is, you have to commit to only feeding biologically appropriate foods, like raw or some of the non-grain dog foods. But wow, it's made a heck of a difference, which to me proves that all the allergy treatments my girl got were a major waste of time, and they probably threw off her system enough to actually make her feel worse.

I hope I'm not jinxing it by being thrilled too early. Hell, you could feed me sugar pills and cure anything, even if I KNEW they were sugar pills.