what do u animal ppl think about the BARF diet?

Question

sorry im from yorkshire and forget myself somtimes recon means think

the BARF diet is raw meat and bone diet

hope that helps sorry for the misunderstanding

yes u can do it for cats aswell all mine love it i just wanted to know what everyone else thought of it

Answer 1

hi, i have fed my dogs this diet for two years now and have not had any problems, i dont think its any more expensive than tinned dog food and the dogs like it!

Answer 2

I am actually working for a huge promoter of the BARF diet in Germany.
We have 20 dogs on this farm and they are all fed on the BARF diet and they are all very healthy happy dogs.

I had never really thought about it before I came here, but to me it makes perfect sense.
I cant imagine that the processed foods made by dog food companies with the main objective of making money could possibly be any better for animals than what they have been surviving on for centuries in the wild.

Answer 3

At the hospital I work at, we do not recommend this diet based on what is fed to most livestock in this country. In the U.S., although there are guidelines as to what cows and chickens may be fed, they are loosely enforced and hard to watch. A lot of dogs are allergic to many of the growth hormones that these animals are injected with, and thus show adverse reactions to these meats when they are not cooked first. If you know 100% of what is being fed to these animals, and it is all grain without and by-products or hormones, then usually it is not a problem, but with store-bought meat that is hard to do. As far as the bone part goes, beef and deer meat bones are the easiest for a dog to digest, as they do not splinter. Chicken bones, with the exception of the vertebrae which crunch, splinter easily. Pork is never good for animals and the bones are extremely fatty and give most dogs severe diarrhea. Also, if you choose to feed a raw diet you MUST give a nutritional supplement as well. A very good one to use is Nupro, a powder that can be sprinkled onto the dog's food, or mixed with water to form a type of gravy. A dog needs more then just protein to survive. That supplement can be found online, and it may seem expensive, but it lasts forever.

Answer 4

I feed my dogs on raw meat, bones, tripe, fruit & veg but they do also have biscuit. I'm not a BARF fanatic but the way I look at is that you wouldn't feed your kids on a 100% processed diet would you? So why do it to your dogs? I've been feeding this way for 30+ years my dogs are usually live well into their teens, are rarely at the vets, very rarely have digestion problems & never suffer from allergies or skin problems.

Answer 5

I knew about hormones and other additives in meat, so I'm not keen on feeding raw chicken. Plus its quite expensive to do. And in a world where people go hungry I'm not sure its acceptable to feed dogs on human food.
Theres a canned dog food made from tripe which is good for low allergy diets. You have to add plain wholemeal biscuit and cooked veg to make it a complete dog food.

Answer 6

It's all about the owners oppinion. I have ferrets and I dont feed the raw diet

Answer 7

My dog likes to eat his own barf! But then again he also likes to eat cat turds, bugs, dried leaves, and my girlfriends dirty panties.

Answer 8

I would not try it for myself. If I had a pet I might try it I guess.

Answer 9

the bone is unhealthy it can puncture internal organs and the meat well its what they had in the wild as long as its clean