Raw food is all the rage for pets, but is it really better than commercial kibble or homemade? What you need to know:
Nearly two-thirds of dogs and about half of cats were given homemade meals at least some of the time. And more than two-thirds of pooches and more than half of kitties sometimes got raw meals.
"Commercial pet diets have only been around for a few decades, and one of the reasons these products were developed was an increased interest in animals' well-being. Pets have evolved to become part of the family and people wanted to provide a more balanced diet with better nutrition," Dodd explained.
"If you feed an animal a raw product, it gets on the whiskers and face. When the animal defecates, it leaves traces. Even if you can't see it, the contamination is potentially there. Sometimes animals get sick from raw food, but even if they're not sick, it doesn't mean that they can't be transmitting infections to people," Dodd said.
"A vegan diet is very challenging. It really comes down to the bioavailability of nutrients. Vegetarian is more practical, because foods like cottageand eggs can provide necessary nutrients," Torres said. And she added that cats really can't do a vegan diet and get all the protein and nutrients they need. Torres noted that there is at least one commercially available vegetarian pet food.
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