You are what you eat - so are your pets! I have applied these words to myself and my family for most of my life so It was only natural that I would want to apply them to my animals also. I have always had an awareness of feeding dogs raw meat. I have memories from way back of my mother going to the butchers and bringing home scraps of raw meat and, most disgustingly to me at my tender age, sheeps heads. I can still picture our Alsatian tucking into them with great gusto. Over the years as I read more widely on the subject, I became increasingly concerned that the dry food (kibble) diet I fed to my dogs was not at all in keeping with their needs as natural carnivores. Two near death experiences with bloat only served to reinforce this growing awareness. I gradually increased the amount of raw food in their diets (one dog at a time) until finally, in 2007, I decided to switch entirely to raw food.