Our dogues love it! Eh...at least most of the time :-)

BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food)

About 1½ years ago we changed our way of feeding dogues to BARF. Puppies and young dogues are fed exclusively on BARF for the first year of their life -our older dogues eat 70% BARF and 30% dried food (We use Sceince Hills Pro Plan - Natures best for large breeds).

We began looking into other ways of feeding dogues after sadly loosing Capella at the tender age of 5 months. Although there was a genetic basis for her problems as well, we couldn't help noticing how UN-harmonious she grew. She was fed on Royal Canin Giant puppy food, recommeended by vets, but as we later found out is far too high in both fat and protein for a fast growing puppy. We felt that she grew way too fast and very unsteadily too. All in all this was not good at all. When we got J'adore we decided to try BARF'ing and we were very impressed with how nicely she grew. Although she is a relatively big female she never at any point had any growing related problems (of course this diet was combined with moderate excercise).

Apart from a smoother growing we also find that their fur look better, their teeth are clean, their breath is better, they don't poop as much (which is also a sign that they use their food better) and they just love chewing bones.

There is so much to say about this way of feeding, so I have deecided to add these links below as I have found them to be quite helpful. We hope you will find some inspiration too:-)
 

http://www.rawfed.com/myths/feedraw.html

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

http://www.barfhundemad.dk/

http://www.hundeeksperten.dk/ofte-stillede-sp%C3%B8rgsmal-om-barf.html