why barf diet?

[大敦寵物醫院]

Nocturne : 戴醫師您好…

對不起… i just want to ask about why there’re even ppl considering barf diet… cuz according to my understanding which is just from common knowledg, (so plz correct me if i’m wrong), there’s really nothing good about BARF diet…

1. it’s true that dogs’ ancestors–wolves–live on raw meat and wild vegetation, but aren’t we humans used to eat raw stuff too? why don’t we question on whether we should go eat raw meat and wild vegetables?
2. raw meat has parasites which can only be killed by processing the meat(this is why i dare not eat sashimi…) so isn’t cooked meat better than raw meat?
3. it is true that wild dogs, wolves, whatever, live on raw meat, but it’s also true that they has a shorter life span than domestic animals cuz their diet is more disease-prone or do not contain enough nutrients. so even though commerical dog food has preservatives, why not try cooking ur own dog food(of course with a cookbook for dogs la…); WHY, among all other choices, barf diet?

p.s. sorry about the colloquial english style i used…and…is it oki to post this kind of question? i am so surprised to see ppl even thing about using barf diet…so my tone is kind of harsh… for me… i don’t even give my dog a raw bone since i don’t want the fractured pieces to poke a hole in his digestive system…

大敦寵物醫療中心院長戴更基醫生 : 我完全理解您的想法, 這也是目前我們的態度,但是全世界還是有很多人堅持要使用這樣的食物,即使我們說破嘴也沒有用,
對於英文比較差的朋友,我可以順便用中文幫您表達一下(我不全面翻譯)
1.狗的祖先是狼,這是不變的事實,但是不能因為如此就要狗狗吃生肉及骨頭,因為人類的阻先也是吃生肉及骨頭的.
ans:在營養上吃生肉是可以的,但是要考慮到必須每日準備,還要考慮衛生的問題,還有就是您不能帶著牠旅行,因為不是隨時隨地都有這樣的安全衛生的生肉.還要考慮腐敗的問題
2.生肉有很多種寄生虫是在烹調後才會死亡的,所以吃生肉會有寄生虫的問題
ANS:這是正確的,以前的年代,動物的遷移較少,問題比較局限化,但是現在可以坐飛機,整個地球的各種病都可以傳來傳去的,所以問題更多
3.雖然野生動物如野狼….等等都是生吃,但是壽命卻比較短,還有如果您覺得飼料有防腐劑的問題,您也可以看著動物的食譜自己烹調,為何要選用生食呢?
Ans:您說的也沒錯,雖然飼料有防腐劑,但是狗狗卻從未因為這樣而有壽命減少的問題,這是有安全使用的範圍,再者如果您堅持不要防腐劑,您也可以選用天然的防腐成份vitamin C及E.市面上早就有這樣的飼料了最少超過五年以上!!!動物因為飼料而延長了壽命,雖然還不是很完美,但是已可以讓狗狗活到約人類的100歲了,我想我寧願相信這樣的結果也不願意去讓我的狗吃生肉及蔬菜,因為我不想牠早死!!

還有,想用英文問就用英文問,不用客氣

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