Extreme cruelty case: Owner feeds garbage to his dog for 15 years!
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Yes… sorry guys… I know you won’t like to read this but if you are feeding commercial food to your animal that person responsible for extreme cruelty is no other than YOU. Here is what some of the best vets in the world have to say:
Dr. Ian Billinhurst B.V.Sc.(Hons), BSc.Agr., Dip.Ed. “The sad truth is that prepared pet foods help provide patients for vets.” “Raw chicken does of course carry bacteria, E.g. Salmonella. These are of absolutely no consequence to a healthy dog.” “As a veterinary student in the early seventies, I found it hard to understand why Aussie vets had fewer and simpler dog and cat diseases to deal with than the Americans. It seemed to make the Aussie vet somehow inferior. We did not need to be trained to the same high degree of complexity and sophistication. There was a simple explanation. At that time, more than seventy percent of Aussie dogs were still fed raw bones and scrapes. They were still pretty healthy. American dogs had been eating processed food and no bones for decades. They had developed a wide range of problems. Their vets had been forced to develop a complex set of diagnostic and therapeutic tools to deal with them. I need not have worried. Our dogs’ disease problems are increasing on a par with their increasing consumption of processed and cooked foods. We Aussie vets now have to be as good as our American counterparts to deal with them. There are many reasons why the commercial pet foods have never been close to a dog’s natural diet. Those reasons include the fact that they are based on grain, and that they are cooked.”
“Although we have come to accept commercial foods as being normal or natural ways to feed animals (and indeed ourselves), in fact they are not. They are simply what we’ve gotten used to in the last few decades. But nothing we can produce commercially ever can rival those mysteriously complex foods manufactured for eons by nature itself.” “All processed pet foods – whether sold in cans, bags, or frozen packages, in either giant supermarket chains or local health food stores – are missing something that seems to me to be one of the most important “nutrients” of all. This key ingredient is something nutritional scientists have practically ignored. But when it’s there, you and I can know it and feel it. It is a quality found only in freshly grown, uncooked whole foods. It’s life energy.” “The best diet is a raw food diet.” “Science Diet & Hill’s dog & cat food products are not good diets. They use chemical preservatives that have been shown to cause problems in some animals & they use by-products, which are words on the ingredient label that need to be avoided at all costs. This generally means food not utilized for human consumption.” And now that you have read what some of the best vets in the world have to say, let me show you how to do it: It is time to stop the abuse. Do you love your animals? Really? So how long will you keep on feeding them garbage for? Please share this article in your profiles Viktor |
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I don’t think this is the best way to get your point across. Education should be the priority, not shaming people. Most people truly do not know the facts about dog food and there’s a big difference in feeding your dog Old Roy all the time and feeding him a high quality food.
Raw Food Rocks! I’ve been feeding raw for over 15 years now. My cat and dogs flourished with eating a species appropriate raw prey diet. Fresh breath, clean teeth, no fleas, no itchies, shiny coat. And LESS POOP!
We regularly post information posts.. but sometimes.. just sometimes… people need to see the consequences of their actions.
Truth is not pretty most of the time. This is one of those cases.
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The guity ones in the first place are the vets. Logically, pet owner do rely on their professional advice.
But when it’s too late, the vets know very well how to keep the animals alive for some more months.
In order not to have to take the cat to the vet every 2 days, the vet even instructed us how to administer the infusion drip at home.
We were offered the medical equipment to take home ….I am not joking, it’s true. Of course I refused to do so.
And if you have some ca$h left, you can also buy sundays stand-by service for putting your animal to sleep before the entire body is going to be intoxicated…..
stop your vet bashing! its the age of technology and INFORMATION! educate yourselves their YOUR dogs NOT the vets!!!!!!!!!! stop blaming others for your own ineptitude!
Aniumals would eat this in the wild if they caught it a forage for food – Dogs are Omniverous and will eat anything if hungry, my dog loves raw meat and fish, bones and wil eat nuts and fruit!
In this age of convenience both humans and their animals pay for a FAST FOOD FIX!
Although I am a strong supporter of MyLetsAdopt, I’m not happy about the tone of this post. As someone who has kept dogs and cats and rescued dogs from the streets for the years I have lived in Turkey, I object to the use of the words “extreme cruelty” being applied to those people who are feeding dogs with commercialised or cooked food.
The dogs I have at the moment, which I rescued from the streets as puppies are now 8 years and 4 years old. They have been fed primarily on cooked chicken livers, leftover cooked food that we are eating, and occasionally commercial complete biscuit meal., and they are both perfectly healthy. I have very limited finances…in fact very little money at all, so I do the best I can for them and for a number of street dogs as well.
Have you seen the price of raw meat in Turkey? We can’t afford to buy much meat for ourselves, let alone the dogs. My dogs are loved, cherished, well cared for and healthy. What’s the alternative? Leave them on the streets to scavenge rubbish from the bins and to die a slow death from starvation and disease?
Your approach in this post does little to encourage people to rescue dogs from the streets. It will in fact deter those people with few resources who would perhaps like to rescue dogs from doing so.
@ Amber Sorry to burst your bubble but ALL commercial pet foods even the ones you pay through the nose for that say they are premium are full of crap and fillers.
@Matt, the age of technology my ass! Vets are on the take when it comes to pet foods and diet recommendations. They get kickbacks from pet food manufacturers for promoting the garbage they sell and recommending it to their clients. They KNOW the food they are pushing is poison but the almighty dollar is more important to them. Vets would rather see you feed our pet garbage so that it causes more vet visits. If they dared to suggest a raw diet it could affect their bottom line and we can’t have that. Why don’t you grow up and realize that just because someone graduates from veterinary school, that doesn’t mean they have all the answers. They may be OUR dogs but we are trained to trust our vet therefore it is their responsibility to give us the proper information on diet for our pets. Besides we are not just talking dogs here, cats too should be raw fed.
I thought you were in the business of rescuing and rehoming dogs, not decrying the way that millions of people feed their pets
I totally agree that raw food (and not only meat, but vegetables as well and maybe a bit of cottege cheese, an egg or two….) is the best food for our animals. Our problem is that it’s next to impossible to buy meat on a bone where we live (north London or the ‘edge of London’, as I call it. …. unless I’m going to spend £50 a day to feed all our 7 dogs!! It’s more than 20 years since I read the Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog and Cat, by a renown herbalist & staunch believer in ‘natural food’ for dogs/cats…. her name is Juliette de Bairacli Levy. One of the most remembered quotes I read in the book was: ‘never give a dog a bone without meat or meat without bone’…… The only butcher for miles around is an organic meat butcher, but when I went there a couple of times and asked him if he had any bones to sell which would have some meat on them he looked at me as if I was asking him for something impossible….. well, the answer was basically ‘no’. So we have to compromise….. Our dogs get fed twice a day….. a part of their food is dry kibble, with half a kilo of raw mince mixed with it and in the afternoon more or less the same, but less kibble as apart from mince they each get one raw chicken wing or a ‘drumstick’ or a fairly meaty spare rib (pork)……….. that is alternated 2-3 times a week with pasta, raw carrots and mince meat. I will browse the internet to see if I can get delivered some frozen meaty bones…. but yes, I have figured it out many years ago that the majority of skin complaints & stomach upsets in dogs is due to the food they are being fed. The 7 rescues we have are all from Greece, but from the time they arrived in our home they were never again been vaccinated. Our vets don’t make much money from us because our dogs are never sick. OK, so 17 year old Tina needed a good dental when we adopted her – she was already about 14 at the time….. our 8 year old Kali has never been at the vets, nor 7 year old Rena…. 13 year old 3-legged Suli one a couple of times for dental extractions & polish…. when he was less than a year old he was put on some antibiotics (in Greece) which damaged the enamel on his teeth….. and 13 year old Bonzo had one dental job and an op to remove a metal plate from his leg…… the 3 and 2 year old girls have a way to go before they’ll need to see the vet. The saying for people : “you are what you eat” goes for animals too and I will definitely put even more effort into balancing our dogs’ diet as well as wpossible.
my animals are NEVER sick! what is with people? It’s hard enough feeding my family our food, and you want me to pay more for even more expensive raw meat on the bone for our pets? i cannot afford it. I’m all for keeping pets and people healthy, and I feed my animals what i can. Same with my family, and none of us, either dogs, cats or humans are ever sick. So keep your propaganda at least a bit in the middle! My animals aren’t even vaccinated. I’d also rather my children not be as well, but the state says we must. ONE dog I had ot put down, she was 17. She looked like puppy, the vet couldn’t even tell her real age> She got sick one day, I took her to the vet that day, and we found out her liver was gone from cancer. The vet was astounded that she looked as good as she did for being 17 and not having a liver!
We are not in any kind of business.. but if you mean what the objectives of our group are yes.. we are a rescue group that tries (in your case I see is not working
to educate owners about responsible ownership. Big part of it is to make sure you guys understand the basics of animal nutrition.
So yes.. that is us.
Well… vets SHOULD be liable for professional responsibility.
Can you imagine a human doctor reccomending you to eat macdonalds every day? What do you think would happen to that doctor if he was caught?
You should be happy someone is there to push the vets to improve their professional performance.
So… you are welcome.
for the one that said do I wonder how she got cancer in the first place, well, A: She was 17! B: she had a broken molar that no one knew about, and we know that teeth are very important and to have a broken one does cause damage. The rest of her body was perfect. As I sad the vet was amazed when I told him she was 17. And that was using commercial dog food for 17 years! My grandmother got breast cancer 7 years ago. Was it because of her diet? no, because she was a vegan. Shit happens, it happens to us all. We deal with it and do the best we can getting over the aftermath.
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i have a question…I tried feeding my dog a bone but he ended up sick instead..cause of the bone he ate he ended up having dyspesia…so till now i keep on feeding him canned pedigree food because im scared he would get sick again from eating a bone..maybe its a case to case basis i mean when it comes to feeding dogs raw food or bones?
matt sorry, your right you have to edjucate yourselve, but their are plenty of websites etc, which all telling differnet things, veggies yes, veggies no, food from cans are good, not good, etc etc.
so who do you trust, who do you believe, of course you ask your vet, he studied the whole shit, he should know. and not everyone has intenet or could use it, go in librarys? but which boo is the right one, which scientist says the truth, there are still some out there who believes veggies are nessecary to wolves (and dogs) because they sometimes eat some froot, i eat chocolate either, that doesn’t mean i need it, does it?!
so ist not always that easy matt. and yes of course you chould educate yourselve, but you should also could trust your vet, so yeah you can blame them too.
thats my opinion.
Personally I think all raw food advocates should practice what they preach,, while they are perfectly happy to feed their carnivore animals the corpses of other animals , then they themselves should be following a vegan diet as humans are certainly NOT carnivore !
I fail to see that any person is a true animal lover whist advocating saving the lives of cats and dogs while exploiting so many other animals.
I doubt any of you would even consider killing another cat or dog to feed your pets , so why do it to cows, chickens etc ?
I agree with the others. We should not fill bad because we are feeding our dogs top quality dog food. I have seven dogs and there is no way to feed them fresh meat. I know it is prob better for them but they get the best of care. Give us credit for taking good care of our dogs!!
How silly. I didn’t read any further than the bit about Science Diet. All experienced pet people know that Science Diet is terrible. But discounting all other bagged food–for instance, Canidae–because it has something in common with Science Diet, is just ridiculous. Just what we need to help people become better pet owners–a little more extremist, black-and-white thinking. Not.
I’m sure that as natural a diet as possible is best for anyone, man or beast. But, as stated, sometimes financials play a role in what is served on your table. The fact that this group won’t adopt out any of their animals unless you feed raw and you must have a pet in the family already is rather depressing. There is nothing wrong with having one dog – especially one dog saved.
I echo Karen’s sentiment – I also know vegans who suffer from cancers and people who eat garbage, as you put it, and are in their 80′s with no ill effects….
Be happy, rescue your next pet, and do the very best you can to have a great life!
I’ve left a comment before, but while I agree that raw diet for dogs and cats is best, I explained why some of us have to compromise (I even tried to find on internet a supplier of raw bones with some meat on them, but can’t find a source) and I agree that at least 60-70% of ill-health in dogs and cats is directly due to the food they’re being fed, but the title above…………
Extreme cruelty case: Owner feeds garbage to his dog for 15 years!
….. is over-dramatic and scare-mongering. If the dog has lived to the age of 15, that’s a pretty good age………… if he had truly suffered ‘extreme cruelty’ he would have died years before.
When I was ass’t manager for Petco in the 1990′s, I took a course to be a certified pet nutrition counselor. It really opened my eyes as to what I was recommending for my customers to feed their pets. I’m not sure how they are now, if they caved to the extreme junk food companies, (Purina, Old Roy, etc.) but when I was there, they were selling “premium” pet food only. I learned a lot. One thing (maybe it’s better now?) was that veterinary schools spent very little time teaching pet nutrition, it’s more about dideases, health. So, your vet, not all vets of course, is not the best source of advice in this area, because they weren’t taught much about it. And, yes, lots of them in the US sell & recommend Hill’s in their office. Kick-back?…uh, yep.
The kicker…the course was TAUGHT by Hill’s Science Diet, one of the worst! Their dog food is corn-based ( what isn’t these days…think “Monsanto”; is that spelled right?). Dogs don’t digest corn well at all, or grains for that matter. It’s not part of a good diet for them, they don’t eat it in the wild.
I learned to read the ingredients, and it was very clear how they “trick” you into thinking that chicken, lamb, etc. is the main one. Meat is listed first, making you believe that it is the main ingredient. BUT, keep reading the list. Let’s say it’s lamb & rice. Ingedient list goes something like this… #1-lamb, then rice, rice meal, something, rice glutin, something, brewer’s rice, rice-this, rice-that, etc. So, by the time you add up all the rice in different forms, it’s obvious there’s way more rice than lamb. That’s how they fool most consumers. Also, whatever meat/poultry is used, is so processed, it’s ridiculous.
For some pet parents, feeding raw is difficult due to many things, some real, some just excuses; fixed income/financial, not convenient, ignorance, etc.
Anyway, I suggest research, research, research…and research some more. Then, with some info/education under your belt, just do the best for your pet as you possibly can…
Just my opinion.
from above: “Sorry to burst your bubble but ALL commercial pet foods even the ones you pay through the nose for that say they are premium are full of crap and fillers.”
That statement is full of crap and fillers. We have a pet food store here that sells only holistic dog foods. Yes, it costs more per bag, but per serving the cost works out to about the same as junk dog food. That’s what a lot of people don’t understand. Since there are no fillers or byproducts in it, the dogs eat less of it per serving. We also stay away from treats that contain preservatives.
Go to http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog-food-index-a.html . You can look up any dog food on the market and it lists the ingredients, the pros/cons of each food, states if the food would be recommended, and explains why.
It is NOT ‘extreme cruelty to love, feed and care for your pet in the best way you can, providing they are fit and healthy!
I believe you are very wrong to make the statement, particularly when thousands upon thousands of additional animals would die if every individual and rescue had to stick to your policy. How healthy and ideal is that for the animals concerned?
So many rescues (all over the world), rely on whatever donations they can beg, be it financial, food, medicine, whatever else they need.
How hard do they work to secure the lives of so many and then find homes for them?
Should they just leave them on the streets, in the pounds, or to suffer REAL cruelty because they could only dream of feeding raw?
Oh for an ideal world!
But then Viktor, your bubble (and ego) would be burst because there would be no unwanted animals, or cruelty.
Children and animals wouldn’t suffer and die from hunger and cruelty.
Your statement “Come on, admit it, you love us…”……..well I no longer do, and I can’t support a ‘rescue’ which preaches such rubbish!
In the past I bought very expensive food from the vet, premium as he told me.
But he was just making new patients.
The food has the conservation recources BHT and BHA .
The dogs became hot spots and get bold on the end of their back and were itching.
When I stopped with this crap, the young ones get their hair back, but not the old ones.
The BHA’s and BHT’s are stored in the body fat and do not degrade.
Before I discovered that , the same vet did a lot of testing on my dogs for allergy.
I paid him high bills.
But even raw meat can be a problem, they are stucked with hormones and anti-biotics.
My point is, by the time the dog is 6 he is not fit and certainly he is not healthy…
No… you shouldn’t live them on the pounds.. but you should do your best for the animal and that includes wasting your time educating people, like I’m doing now.
Info all pet owners; another expert opinion on the pet food industry:
Dr. Elizabeth Hodgkins.
She testified at the 2007 Supplemental Hearings after many cats and dogs where harmed or killed because of bad pet food. See http://landofpuregold.com/petfood-hodgkins.htm
Having asked a question recently re: the rationale behind your adoption conditions I have looked at quite a few past and present posts from your organisation. I think it is of particular shame that you continue to “preach” at people who read your posts and stoop to name calling in order to as you say “waste your time educating them” . There are many ways in which people rescue and look after animals, with lasting results, YOURS is NOT the ONLY WAY! (Bold here being good to make MY point as opposed to you recently applauding a supporter for re-iterating yours!) This stance is counter-productive, alienates many people who could in fact be valuable supporters or adopters and is tantamount to biting the hand that feeds you – a very foolish thing to do. (please note I have called your action foolish and not levelled an accusation of being imbecilic at you) If you must comment abrasively Vikctor then kindly do so on your own wall so as not to undo the heroic work carried out by others within your organisation. I agree the truth is not pretty, but neither is sarcasm., nor is sarcasm clever or helpful when people make a genuine enquiry. If you do not want to “spend money on rescuing and treating” the animals you have or “waste your time” educating us mere mortals then please don’t do it. I have even begun to wonder if your branch of what should be a very worthwhile charitable group is not in fact a cover for something else.
OMG! First of all,, I totally agree w/the statement educate, don’t humiliate & furthermore 15 years is pretty darn long, next in a polly anna world-yes we would MAYBE feed raw. If you would like to supply food to my animals fine-I have four now.
I think I’ll continue worrying about how to get all the dogs rescued first, before using that $ for raw food.”
Oh & by the way, they eat better than me already. I’ll be waiting for that food, rather than my “commercial/garbage food.:
And DON”T ATTEMPT TO MAKE YOUR DOG A VEGITARIAN DOGS ARE CARIVORES & YOU HAVE A CHOICE TO DO THAT-THE DOG DOESN’T-SO MAKING HIM A VEGAN WILL MALNOURISH/KILL HIM BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE!
yes, viktor you are a real hero! you RESCUE and tell people WHAT to do. you are self-rightous, overbearing and simply too rude to be called blunt. lots of people have animals they love and feed them according to what they know is best or simply according to what they can afford. you know what? instead of telling people what to do, do everthing yourself and then you will be the hero of the century, cos YOU know best! as an educator you suck! and sorry to tell you this, but you must have other, maybe personal, issues than animals. get yourself a life man!
Sorry you take it that way… give time to time, when the moment comes you will be remembering this post.