The Most Common Myths About Raw Food For Dogs

Raw food is not a balanced meal
This is certainly true if you feed your dog only juicy pieces of meat. But if you choose the raw ingredients you use and combine them in the right proportions, you will get a complete meal. It is necessary to combine muscle meat, offal, bones, cartilage and a small amount of fruits and vegetables. Such a meal is then rich in high-quality proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals.

Feeding a dog raw food is complicated
It can hardly be simpler if your feed the dog Von BARF raw food. It is only necessary to take the portion out of the freezer, thaw and serve. The biggest problem is getting the portion out of the freezer on time. Our advice is that when you serve the thawed portion to your dog, immediately take out a new portion from the freezer. It's a bit more complicated if you prepare the meals yourself because you need to get different offal, meat, bones and cartilage, and then grind it all, mix it in the right proportions and portion it out. But with a little experience it's not that complicated either, because when you don't have time to prepare a meal, you can have Von BARF products as a backup.

Raw meat makes dogs aggressive
This myth has absolutely no basis! The instinct to hunt and kill is determined by genetics and behavior learned at an early age from the mother or other animals. Most often, it is the upbringing by the owner that is responsible for aggressiveness. Dogs don't associate BARF in the bowl with poultry running around the yard or a cow grazing grass in a meadow. The instinct to hunt and kill is not related to the food the dog eats.

Raw meat contains dangerous bacteria
To be sure that raw food is microbiological correct, it is important that you buy food from legal raw food producers. Legally produced raw food is strictly controlled by the veterinary inspection in the plant itself, in the warehouse and in stores. The pH of stomach acid in dogs that eat raw food is extremely low, acidic. Such acidic media is the first line of defense against pathogenic bacteria. So if there were some pathogenic bacteria in the raw food, they would already be destroyed in the stomach.

Petra Galetić, dr.vet.med