Homemade diets for dogs and cats: what laboratory testing found
Laboratory testing found nutrient gaps in 100 homemade dog and cat recipes. The study measured food composition, not illness or long-term health outcomes.
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Do homemade dog-food recipes meet nutrient requirements?
Most sampled recipes fell short of at least one nutrient benchmark. This was an analysis of recipes, not a trial measuring illness in dogs.
Raw, lightly cooked and dry dog food: digestibility compared
Selected foods differed in digestion and stool measurements. This short experiment does not establish which format produces better lifelong health.
Weight-loss diets and feeding strategies in cats
Three supervised feeding approaches produced similar weight loss. Owner-reported hunger and satisfaction differed.
Raw, pasteurised and heat-treated dog food: what changed?
An 18-dog trial compared raw, pasteurised and heat-treated foods. Digestibility and other measurements differed, but the results do not establish lifelong health superiority.
Raw feeding and the canine gut microbiome
What an eight-dog feeding trial found about raw beef, gut bacteria and stool quality, with a closer look at the methods, results and limits of the evidence.