Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2012 14:06:00 GMT -5
(Sorry if this sounds rude, the best way I can explain it is to be a bit blunt... I'm sure you'll want to think of a prettier way to say it, lol....) When I first got my own ferrets, I was pretty stubborn on understanding w/o a scientific study but eventually I realized that study or no study it's as simple as this:
Ferrets are carnivores and carnivores eat raw meat. What proof is really needed beyond looking around in nature and seeing the facts?
Carnivores happily thrive in the wild on raw meat, you don't see a pole cat running around w/ a hot plate, lol. Nor do you see them trying to make their own kibble. When carnivores are kept in Zoos they are still fed raw meat... why shouldn't our beloved pets receive the same luxury?
I think it's also easier to grasp when you see the difference between a raw fed ferret and a kibble fed ferret first hand. In pictures you can see physical differences but in real life, one on one encounters, there is a bigger impact.
Everyone here made it possible for me to understand how to feed a well balanced raw meat diet, they made it possible for me to understand that I could do it w/ my schedule but it was my fiancees simple little statements (much like what I said) that made me realize that scientific studies can't tell you anything more than what nature shows you day in and day out, things it has shown for centuries and centuries.
Beyond that, if meat isn't the ideal diet, why would more and more kibble companies be trying to make meat more of a staple in their ingredients? The only reason they cook it is because there is no other plausible way for them to really package it.
As others said, raw feeding isn't pushed by corporations so there isn't much money to fund the research but IMO mother nature has more than provided that to us.
Ferrets are carnivores and carnivores eat raw meat. What proof is really needed beyond looking around in nature and seeing the facts?
Carnivores happily thrive in the wild on raw meat, you don't see a pole cat running around w/ a hot plate, lol. Nor do you see them trying to make their own kibble. When carnivores are kept in Zoos they are still fed raw meat... why shouldn't our beloved pets receive the same luxury?
I think it's also easier to grasp when you see the difference between a raw fed ferret and a kibble fed ferret first hand. In pictures you can see physical differences but in real life, one on one encounters, there is a bigger impact.
Everyone here made it possible for me to understand how to feed a well balanced raw meat diet, they made it possible for me to understand that I could do it w/ my schedule but it was my fiancees simple little statements (much like what I said) that made me realize that scientific studies can't tell you anything more than what nature shows you day in and day out, things it has shown for centuries and centuries.
Beyond that, if meat isn't the ideal diet, why would more and more kibble companies be trying to make meat more of a staple in their ingredients? The only reason they cook it is because there is no other plausible way for them to really package it.
As others said, raw feeding isn't pushed by corporations so there isn't much money to fund the research but IMO mother nature has more than provided that to us.
