More on HD/Diet...

[Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>]

At 11:05 PM 12/11/00 -0900, you wrote:
>Thanks to you all, you are a big help.
>I saved this link, this is a great and helpful information, and I'm going to
>forward it
>to a friend of mine who's golden ( just one year old) was diagnosed with hip
>and
>elbow dysplasia.
On this topic:

I am getting more and more concerned for the canine as a whole,,, species. 
With my new found knowledge base on immune related as well as orto 
problems, I don't think I could ever go back to feeding kibble.

I do think that some problems are heritable but also I strongly (even 
stronger after being on Dog Read this month) feel that diet is the root to 
many of the ills and the canine as a whole species is in poor condition, 
approaching critical.  At this point in time I don't have the means to 
convey to each of you the overwhelming evidence but to say, please consider 
making changes in your feeding programs for your dogs.  At least do the 
research...

  For some getting past the bone scare and or bacteria issues of  cross 
contamination is a major issue.  All I can offer there is we have yet to 
have a problem with either of these topics.  The dogs have been well and we 
have not gotten sick...  Come to think of it barring the bizarre I have yet 
to hear a report of a dog or human for that matter having serious enough 
problems with the diet to scare me off.  But of course I am not out there 
looking for a reason to not feed a biologically correct diet either...

Gina :-)