Argh p*** off!

[vieshot]

My bfs mum is driving me up the wall well and truely.

When I first put the puppy onto the BARF diet she told me that he wouldn't get all the nutrients he needs because he's not on a complete food like the cheap tesco own dry food he was on when we got him *sigh*

Now he has a bit of skin irritation, been flead etc but skin is a bit flakey and he's a bit itchy. Need to get him to a vet next week to see what he's allergic to or whatever. She told me the reason he's got bad skin is because of what I'm feeding him because it doesn't have all the goodness in from the complete dry food.

Yesterday I got him a kong. That's cruel apparently because he has to work to get the treats out.

I hate peoples ignorance. Do some research!!!

Argh, sorry. Rant over.

 

[cremedemonthe]

Ignore her, I had that when I changed to barf 5 or 6 years ago, I also found one of the dogs got dandruff and itchy skin when I first changed their diet.After doing some reading up on this it seems it could be just all the shite coming out of the dog's system , all the bad food it had before the better barf diet, it's eliminating the toxins from it's body. It has to get worse before it gets better.If it really worries you then take the dog to the vet but I believe some vets don't always have indepth training about diets and nutrition and the negativity regarding barf diets from my vets further suports this belief, some of them appear to really not like you feeding barf and will advise you against it.
I put coconut oil on my dogs itchy skin (pure raw organic NOT refined) and the irritation cleared up quite quickly. Oz

 

[CorvusCorax]

Gawd, she'd hate me, my dog works for every bit of food he eats and he doesn't even get to eat out of a bowl *sob* as you can tell, he is clearly traumatised :

Tell her to read the ingredients on the back of the Tesco bag and ask her to explain what they are any why they are so good for dogs?

 

[blackcob]

The way I've successfully explained it to doubters is to point out that on pretty much any dry complete diet, the dog eats only chicken. Or beef, or lamb, or whatever (plus a whole heap of grain ).

In any given week my dogs can eat:

Beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey, salmon, mackerel, whitebait, pheasant, rabbit, hearts, livers, kidneys, tripe, trotters, ears, heads(!), ribs, marrow, fish oils, live yoghurt, vegetables etc.

Which is more likely to provide a broad spectrum of nutrients?