Where are the raw food ingredients?

Can anyone link me to a website that gives ingredients for a 鈥楤ARF鈥? raw food meal? I need a website that is like a cookbook for this. If there are no such websites, can someone recommend me the best book (not books) for this? I have been looking all over the net and I haven鈥檛 found what I am looking for.Where are the raw food ingredients?
http://www.rawfeddogs.net/Recipes

http://raw4dogs.com/calculate.htm

http://www.rawdogranch.com/rawmeatybones鈥?/a>

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawfe鈥?/a>

http://www.rawdogranch.com/rawdietbasics鈥?/a>

http://www.urbancarnivore.com/uc_online/鈥?/a>

http://www.rawlearning.com/books.html

http://www.prey4pets.com/servlet/StoreFr鈥?/a>



Good luck and I hope you join the mail list. You will get a lot of help for free!!!!!!!Where are the raw food ingredients?
go to pillsberry.com!!!
the book RAW MEATY BONES is an excellent resource.

I feed both my dogs raw, and i love this book.

Also, here is a website that has some general info.

Feeding raw is not easy, it involves lots of research.



Nature's variety has a great frozen raw food, and even with that i still feed Nupro Complete for a vitamin suppliment. just to be safe.



Do lots of research, and remember it is about variety and balance over a week not at every meal.Where are the raw food ingredients?
Carol Alt, the former supermodel, has a book and is coming out with a new one this month ( I'm not sure of the titles, but try Amazon.). A salad technically is raw food, so it really is not so "Barf".
I bought my dog, a purebred Basenji from a breeder who does shows (my Dog's sire won best-in-breed this year at Westminster). This person absolutely advocated the BARF diet. When my dog was a puppy her number one treat was chicken wings and necks. I would occasionally give her beef ankles. This breeder swore by the diet and had all of her dogs on the BARF diet. There was also a service (I don't remember which) that would mail BARF patties frozen (combo of raw meat, and veggies). My dog hated those.



After some discussion on the internet, and after seeing my dog's butt explode in a diarhea cascade on multiple occassions I decided to not do the BARF diet. My dog was on the BARF diet for about 9 months. I really couldn't find any scientific evidence either way, so I decided to go with an organic, high-protein dog food which I mix with cooked meat. The butt explosion problem was solved.



Here are some BARF links:



http://www.barfworld.com/

http://www.dogwise.com/ItemDetails.cfm?I鈥?/a>

http://www.dogwise.com/ItemDetails.cfm?I鈥?/a>



Here's a link to the dry dog food brand that I use (but remember I mix this with cooked meat, cottage cheese, other goodies). My Basenji is perfectly healthy at 3 years old.



http://www.naturapet.com/



Innova even has a brand of dry dog food that has no fillers. It's just meat. Either way you look at it you're going to find controversy on the internet between dog owners on this subject. If you haven't done so, please Google for some of the negative effects that dog owners have experienced with BARF (bones puncturing intestines,etc).



I'm not expert, but this has been my personal experience.Where are the raw food ingredients?
Neither the American Veterinary Association nor the British Veterinary Association endorses the health benefits of raw food. Both organizations caution that animals fed raw meat run the risk of contracting food-borne illnesses. The British veterinary group declares that "there is no scientific evidence base to support the feeding of raw meat and bones," and warns humans they risk exposing themselves to bacteria like salmonella."[11]



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http://www.jaaha.org/cgi/content/abstrac鈥?/a>



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http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/article鈥?/a>



Quote from article:

"Since dogs are a potential source for several zoonotic pathogens, feeding raw meats to dogs is also a public health concern (5). Given the current popularity of the BARF diet, concern about environmental contamination with Salmonella spp. from the stools of dogs fed this diet is obvious. There are no published studies examining that aspect of this nutritional trend. The present, preliminary study was conducted to determine if dogs fed a BARF diet shed Salmonella spp. in their stools."



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http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/article鈥?/a>



Quote from article

"There is currently inadequate information regarding the safety of raw diets in terms of both animal and human disease. However, considering the variety of infectious and potentially zoonotic pathogens identified here and in other studies, the potential risks must be taken seriously. Given these safety concerns, the absence of any scientific data indicating beneficial health effects of raw diets, and nutritional deficiencies that have been reported with such diets, it is difficult to recommend their use at this point. Veterinarians should discuss the risks of raw diets to pet owners who have decided to feed these diets. As reports of real and potential problems with raw diets increase, liability issues could arise if veterinarians do not discuss the potential risks, particularly if they are recommending or selling raw diets. Factors that should be discussed include safe handling of raw diets, disin



Dont do it.
Feeding raw is a dangerous fad. Check out the following websites
www.rawmeatybones.com

www.rawfed.com/myths

www.rawlearning.com



And if you join this yahoo group, they will be happy to explain prey model raw diet (80% meat, 10% edible bone, and 10% organ meat- 5% of which should be liver)... It is much simpler than trying to do barf.



http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawfe鈥?/a>





Good luck.