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Dog eats raw...do YOU?

   
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Luna

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Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 3:05pm PST 
All of you raw feeders, who have spent tons of time researching, analyzing, and perfecting your dogs' diet big laugh...

Do YOU, too eat raw? OR, do you consider yourself a very healthy eater? Maybe it's vegetarian?, organic?, etc.

I've always wondered if there was a correlation... ie healthy dogs have extra healthy masters thinking

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Reyna

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Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 3:07pm PST 
I'm a cheeseburger-aholic, I confess. I'm a terrible eater!!! I've tried to be more healthy, and stick to organic stuff as of lately because the more I learn about the effects of dog food on a dog's body, I realize the effects of what I'm eating on my body, but it's hard sometimes, you know! I do not eat raw, but like I said, I'm working towards a healthier lifestyle.
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Holly

I'm sweeter than- sugar!		 
 
Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 3:08pm PST 
oh god I wish lol

I'm going to try to try to eat better though.

Promise.

I did research a raw diet for humans at one point (not raw meat lol).

But that failed. It was all raw veggies and like no meat.

I need meat. confused

Still not an excuse for going take out so often...
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Opie CGC

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Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 3:09pm PST 
I do try to avoid highly processed stuff but I'm not very good at it. It's so much easier to have will power for the dogs. I can't count the number of times my dogs have gotten pork chops or ribs and I was eating instant mac and cheese or a drive thru burger.
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Luna

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Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 3:21pm PST 
Plus, I'm sure dogs get "cravings" our would love to dig into a hamburger, but their diet is controlled and perfectly portioned.... they have someone telling them how to eat. Sometimes I wish I was like that! It's so easy to make bad choices when you have a craving.
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Chip

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Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 3:23pm PST 
I've always said I wish my dogs could feed me.
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Jessica CGC

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Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 3:52pm PST 
For many of the reasons I chose raw for my dog, I will eat as little processed food as I can. I won't eat frozen dinners. Most of when I was growing up I was a picky eater and just wanted to eat frozen dinners for meals and I ate snacks and drinks with artificial sweeteners. By late teens I was tired all the time. I couldn't figure out why because I wasn't overweight. Soon after I put my dogs on a raw food diet I stopped eating frozen dinners and fake sugar products, I make sure I eat enough protein for muscle, fresh veggies and fruit, and I take a multivitamin made from real food. What a huge difference! I feel so much better than I used to. Whenever I think about this, I think how dogs on just kibble must feel pretty much the same way I did when I ate just frozen dinners. I ate high quality frozen dinners- kashi, weight watchers, lean cuisine. What a difference fresh food with no chemicals makes.
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Daddy

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Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 3:59pm PST 
I'll admit, I'm not a total health food fanatic, although we're working on it, my dogs still eat better than we do, especially when they eat prey model raw. Feeding my dogs the best diets I can find actually got me into becoming more conscious about the things I was eating, and I've cut way back on sugar foods, eating less takeout, and going for leaner meats.
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Lilith

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Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 4:09pm PST 
I'm pretty much a health freak here. I haven't had fast food probably since I was maybe 8? Been pretty much a vegetarian since I was 13, never even buy stuff like chips, etc. I eat meat from time to time, when I can source it free range and organic.. and the meat I do eat usually tends to be raw, whether its fish, beef or chicken. I even prefer the eggs to be pretty much raw.. it's so darn good. Not that odd, if you're from where we're from. wink

And I exercise pretty obsessively too. I guess the only point where I fail being totally healthy is that I have a soft spot for microbrewery beer, vodka, and whiskey. red face
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Tucker, CGC,- TDI

Meat ... it's- what's for- dinner!
 
 
Barked: Sun Nov 8, '09 5:27pm PST 
Mmm .... I wish, but no. I was severely hypoglycemic as a child, and was therefore on a strict diet, but I had largely grown out of it by the time I was seventeen or eighteen. When I went off to college, of course, regular meals and the four food groups went out the window. All anyone I knew ate was processed or fast food, although every once in awhile my roommate and I would start craving salad and vegetables and would go out for a nice dinner. Since I never had a weight problem, I always felt free to eat whateverI wanted, and that worked out ok until I entered my early thirties and it caught up with me. In an effort to lose some of that weight and inspired by a friend who has had some success, I am recently on a low glycemic index diet plan (which ironically mirrors in large part the diet I ate out of necessity for my hypoglycemia as a kid), and in the last three weeks have lost eight pounds. So the short answer is - no, my diet does not normally get nearly the thoughtful attention as I give to my animals' nutrition, but I'm working to change that!
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