Is there a significant difference in feeding our dogs cooked meat as opposed to raw meat?
According to the “authorities” there is, especially concerning the enzymes in the raw meats which are destroyed by heat. And if I owned a healthy sheep or steer and had a close friend or relative butcher it cleanly, I wouldn’t hesitate for a minute to serve it raw. But today’s slaughterhouses are high volume, and under inspected. E coli is a normal inhabitant of an animal’s intestine. Beef contaminated with E coli has come in contact with fecal matter. In the early 80s I was purchasing meat from a slaughterhouse. It was supposed to be beef and chicken trimmings and organ meats, ground and flash frozen. I lost two of the ten Great Pyrenees in my kennel while feeding this food. Rushed to the vets with bloody diarrhea, and dead by morning. The only findings on these autopsies was an excessive amount of E coli in their intestines. E coli is a normal inhabitant of the canine intestine, only the amounts were out of balance. While I was cooking the meat, I either was not cooking it long enoug
