Success Stories!

[Todd]

Anyone else wanna be famous?

i'll do one, but i haven't been using this diet for that long.

[BGBY]

Our Success Story starts with my girl Casey. Casey is the main reason why I decided to take the time and read up on RAW feeding. I knew she had to have an allergy to kibble. The vet was always saying, FLEA ALLERGY! I didn't buy it, not when she didn't have a flea on her.

This is my girl Casey before reaping the benefits of RAW.


As you can see, she is an abosolute mess. The poor girl dug herself raw every day, all day. It was horrible to watch her suffer as I continually fed her kibble.

Then one day, I got sick of it and thought, there has to be a better way to feed this dog. I found this place and broke google trying to read everything I could. About 3 weeks later, I decided that I would go for it and feed Casey and her sis Ava a whole chicken fryer cut in two. Poor DH was devistated thinking he was going to get a stuffed chicken for dinner and here I am, feeding it to the dogs! lol

I waited, and waited and waited for her skin to heal. It was a long, slow recovery but well worth it! In the last few months, she has finally healed and now she looks healthy. She doesn't stink and her hair is so soft! I love touching her butt now and her energy level is through the roof! I love telling her what a pretty girl she is!

Well, see for yourself!


She loves RAW and is patiently waiting for me to open her swimming pool so she can go swimming!

[Chocx2]

I am just starting raw, I don't have the access that everyone has I'm limited, but I have a store a small one that is working with me.

So far my dogs have eaten sardines, buffallo, beef, lamb, turkey and cow stomach I forgot what they call it but the dogs love it.

I have three, I have adopted dogs my whole life and now I train them, fun stuff. They love the neck bones, teeth are clean and bright.

Its been since January 17th. I hope to continue with the progress. I have one dog in particular with problems and thats how this all started. But all of my dogs get the same food. Stomach bloating is gone, bad smelling gas everynight is gone. The dog was so bloated she wouldn't lay down at the end of the night I would have to burp her to get her stomach down, that issue was gone the first 10 days

All the stories and pics are great I hope in a few months I can post the same progress.

[rawfeederr]

I have been raw feeding since November 2008.
Before I started feeding raw, I was feeding Wellness. My dog, Tiger, was doing okay on that, but he was still shedding heavily, didn't have that much energy, and his coat was kinda dull. He was always like that on commercial foods.
Then, I heard about this thing called a raw diet. I thought it was crazy... your dog would choke on bones and get salmonella, right? But I was wrong. After doing some research, I found that many successful dog people feed this diet and their dogs thrive. So I looked into it some more. After awhile, I bought some raw chicken legs and started feeding!
A few weeks later, my dog's coat was shining, his teeth were MUCH whiter, he was hardly shedding, and he acted like he was only 2 years old! (He was 8, I think, when I switched to raw).
I love this diet, and what it has done for my dog!

[Chocx2]

I would just like to thank everyone for the support when I had questions. I would like to tell everyone that Kelsey is growing back hair. Short but nun the less hair.

I started feeding her raw in January around the 17th. Its been three months I am starting to see improvement. I was crazy with worry about my dog I thought it was hopless.

How does everyone feel about organic v non organic meat?

[rawfeederr]

How does everyone feel about organic v non organic meat?

I don't think it really matters. I mean, organic meat probably is better, but meat is meat. Plus, organic meat = $$.

[RawFedDogs]

Yes to what rawfeederr said.

[Sarayu14]

I had tried raw food once before but was a little concerned when my dogs fur started to fall out (in hind sight it was only his under coat and I had not properly groomed him in months.) Then about 3 years ago he just completely stopped eating entirely, we were feeding him an Rx diet from our vet and then we went to Pedigree. We then started to feed him raw freezer burned chicken, our vet at the time was totally against us feeding raw but he started eating again and his eyes, skin, and coat improved within weeks. He is now 13 and still going pretty good he is slowing down a little due to age. We found another vet who not only agrees with feeding raw but she feeds her dogs (she is a Golden Retriever Breeder) raw and has been doing so for well over 20 years.

[magicre]

I've waited a long time for this and now it's my turn to post success.

First, my thanks to RawFedDogs for taking the time to help me through the second attempt at transitioning to raw.

the first attempt was an absymmal failure, largely due to my ignorance...

i have two dogs.

one. a corgi/lab/heeler/ditch mix who is ten years old and was starting to slow down a little too much. we had just had to put down our last shih tzu and she was alone. i watched her for a month and decided she needed some aggravation in her life to keep her alive. i knew nothing about raw, but i did know i had to get a better kibble than the one she was on. her coat was a dullish black. she had had to have a tooth removed because of a cavity that went into her brain, or so the vet jokingly told us. her geriatric panel was good, but she was showing obvious signs of slowing down and sleeping to her death, in spite of exercise and play.

a month after kimba died, we rescued a pug whom we named bubba. he truly thinks he's a bulldog and we don't have the heart to tell him he's not. it was hate on first sight, but with intervention and time, she has learned to accept him into her pack.

bubba was fed a low brand food, kept cabled to a crate in the garage with his anus bleached, plus he had been abused. needless to say, he was not house trained, people socialised, dog socialised and had no manners at all. fearful and anxious and obnoxious.

we switched both dogs to wellness super five lamb/barley/salmon, added missing link and they looked good.

and then i started reading about behaviour for the pug. he was getting the best of me. i had seattle pug rescue on speed dial and i cried every day and threatened to turn this dog into stew meat.

through the course of my reading about training and behaviour and dogs who peed in their sleep and all the things that made bubba a daunting project, raw kept creeping into thread discussions...

one of the things that struck me was how it changed the energy of the dog....and then my ears perked up...

six months later, the perfect ditch dog, malia got giardia three days before we were getting bubba's eyes operated on so he would not be in pain, nor would he lose further vision. we had already neutered him and fixed his breathing issues.....being a rescue, he came with all the requisite problems rescues have.

this giardia is a nasty little bug....sometimes false negatives and the medicine can be just as debilitating as the parasite.....

every time she got treated, he did. they both went through three rounds before she finally came up negative and so did he....

but now the vet suspected irritable bowel syndrome and colitis. well, duh. after three courses of antibiotics, humans get the runs. why not dogs.

and then i made the mistake of switching them to raw right after they came off the antibiotics, when they had no good bacteria....and before i had enough knowledge under my belt because i didn't know what questions to ask. i just followed some formulas i had read about....not knowing there are some dogs who don't transition like champs, my two amongst them.

we stopped after a week of cannon butt, which could not have done them any good.

and, we put them on home cooked to let their systems calm down.....while i read some more and contacted RawFedDogs, who kindly wrote back....

and said, had it been one dog, he might have thought there was something else going on, but two dogs? nah. it was me and i agreed.

so he made some suggestions. i followed them.

and here we are...

my dogs are leaner. they are black to begin with and they are brilliantly, blindingly shiny.
my ten year old acts like a five year old and my pug is not so hyper anymore. sure, it could coincide with him feeling safer, but his insides are cleaner, so his head is too.....has to be.

their teeth. in six short weeks, their teeth are white. the vet is amazed because bubba, at age three, was getting ready to go in to have his teeth cleaned....

their fur is so soft and so tactile, i can't stop touching them.

while we haven't yet added skin back, we are getting ready to to increase the fat....and we will not clean chicken backs as much as we had been....

but they are eating chicken, turkey, pork, fish...that's four proteins in six weeks...stools are perfect.

and that is my success story....i am a convert.

[DaneMama]

I'm glad that you have been so successful this time around! And I'm glad that you have found not only RFD helpful but all the other people on this board that have helped you through this transition