If you choose to feed your dog raw meat, then a good option is choosing frozen raw dog food. Keeping raw meat frozen is simply the best way to store it until you’re ready to serve it to your dog. The BARF dog food (Bones and Raw Food) diet consists of various types of raw red meat including bones.
In the wild, dogs hunt and capture their prey and eat the meat raw. They don't go and cook it, add chemical additives, artificial colors and then stick it inside a can. That’s just not natural!
Dog nutrition experts extol the virtues of providing your dog frozen food consisting of a raw meat diet. Ian Buffet, an alternative veterinarian, promotes a frozen raw dog food diet versus a commercial pet food alternative: "I believe you just can't get the same quality out of a bag of commercial pet food as you can by doing it yourself; picking your own ingredients, making it yourself and serving it fresh.” “The biggest benefit of commercial pet food offers is convenience."
To paraphrase Dr. Buffet, people tend to choose commercial pet food over a raw meat and bones diet due to the fact it is widely available and relatively inexpensive. People forget about the increased veterinarian bills they may be incurring when choosing to feed their dog commercial pet foods. The added veterinarian bills can quickly surpass the added cost of a frozen raw dog food diet.
Ian Buffet is skeptical when the pet food industry says, "They have to do the processing, and they have to add chemical additives while the food has been sitting on the store shelf for months.” “There is no way they can derive the same food quality to benefit your pet."
Is Dr. Buffet right? Can commercial pet food really be harmful to our dogs and cause them to get diseases that used to be confined only to humans?
If inclined, try experimenting by giving your pet a frozen raw dog food diet. Try it out for a few months and see how your dog’s behavior, appearance and overall health changes.Only then, and only then, will you know if you’ve made the right decision.