Doraemon, i saw this pack too at fluff last few days. Who is goin to try it? bebe or snowy? try liao tell me the results wo...i would really like to go back to Addiction coz Natural Balance is making my milo fatter. What are the first few ingredients in this salmon pack?

jarjar, Addiction has lamb too?

Yeah..i got a sample pack from a pet shop...Milo oso took some time to chew...at first he just smelled then threw it on the floor..maybe coz of the fishy smell...1st time eating fish. Jakun!!

Step ah? Ewwww...so that got his smell izzit?

:O:O u gotta video tape it and show us!!! LION DANCE wo...

this is another piece of info on BARF...not trying to create a fight here btw opponents & proponents of BARF..Just that there's more info for all of us.

This article is taken from a forumer (Clangan)

WHEN BARF GOES WRONG
BARF (Bone and Raw Food Diet) or more specifically, biologically appropriate raw food or sometimes also known as bones and raw food, has been steadily gaining in popularity in this recent years. Reason is that as more people are turning towards a more natural and organic in their own lifestyle, they felt it’s only right that the exact living should also be given to their dogs.
Undeniably, feeding a dog as how he had eaten thousands of years ago before human intervention sounds like the most correct thing to do. After all, it’s how nature intended them to be, chewing on raw meat, gnawing on bones, eating all things raw and bloody. What could go wrong, you may ask. But BARFing a dog takes more than just throwing them a few raw meaty bones as meal. Anyone who knows anything about nutrition knows never to meddle if you know nothing about it. Without balancing the correct ratio and amount of every nutrients needed by the body, deficiency or excess that leads to toxicity, can occur.
Many assume feeding a dog how their closest wild cousins are eating would be the right thing to do but unfortunately, most don’t even understand the most basic dietary habits of wolves that differ so much from the domestic dogs. For one, wolves eat raw meat but they also fast a few days after a meal, giving chance for all vital organs to rest. They also travel up till hundreds of miles a day in search of prey which uses up lots of the energy compared to domesticated dogs. Secondly, after gorging down a good meal of bloody chunky meat, wolves drinks a large amount of water to prevent uremic poisoning (that is when too high a protein intake that causes renal (kidney) failure; even some commercial dry diet today are going way beyond the normal level of protein exceeding 30%). A wolf’s stomach can hold up to 7.5 litres of water.
Bacteria in raw food should also be taken into consideration. Though it is known that dogs has a stomach acid of ph 1, which enables them to eat any sort of bacteria infested rubbish and not get sick, most bacteria like salmonella and e coli goes through the digestive system and comes out again really quickly, therefore a large amount of those bacteria turns up in the feces of dogs. This poses a huge risk to the people around as humans are not capable of defending themselves against these harmful bacteria, especially little children and also other dogs that may not have as strong immune system.
In conclusion, most people BARF their dogs without knowing the consequences of when doing it wrongly. Their decision is mostly more of an emotional one. Determining the diet of a species highly unlike with us should only be done with utmost care and consideration to ensure long term effects caused by deficiency or excesses would not occur. Nutrition is one thing no one should take lightly of because most of the effects, such as diabetes, arthritis, renal failure, liver failure, cataracts and such, diseases caused by nutritional defects, are almost irreversible.
Personally at the moment, i still cannot accept BARF but i can see the good things it does on dogs - at least one thing for sure, Ice' fur is much better now that she is on BARF. However, thorough research shud be done before we embark on something so different from kibbles.

This post has been edited by huey80: Nov 22 2008, 02:11 AM