Several comments to the last blog brought up the issue of Delta's new policy of banning pets fed with "raw protein food" from being Delta Society Pet Partners. I'm guessing that although they were aware that an increasing number of people feed raw food to their pets, (Delta itself cites the "increasing use of raw protein diets" as a reason for their policy), they were not expecting the firestorm that blazed across the dog world once their policy was announced. Delta, as you probably know, cites studies that animals fed raw diets have increased amounts of pathogenic bacteria compared to dogs fed cooked food. Indeed a study out in 2008 found that dogs fed raw diets had increased levels of salmonella and E. Coli in their stool. However, as the excellent review of this issue published in Read More
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