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.
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Taurine, diet and heart disease in Golden Retrievers
Golden Retrievers with low taurine and heart disease improved after several treatments changed together. The study cannot isolate a responsible ingredient or individual treatment effect.
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.