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When it comes to behavior of dogs, I would start by thinking about puppies. Very, very
quick story. When I got my current dog, she's a little Rottweiler, she wouldn't eat. And
so the very first thing that anybody ever does, usually, when their dog won't eat is
they offer it meat, and very often raw meat, whatever that happens to be, because that
is something that dogs naturally want to eat. So there's a lot of things that are unusual
to them, and yet that isn't. It's quite natural to them.
So when you look at that and then you take it to the other extreme and you think, well,
actually, if you get it into your mindset that a raw meat-based diet is something that
a dog would eat in the wild, undeniably, and what we want to do with our dogs is make them
healthy and behave as they should behave. The very first step that we should take, and
the very first action that we should take, is to say, "If we've got a dog with a behavioral
problem, if we were to get it feeding raw then a lot of things would start to regulate
themselves." So in other words, the dog will eat what it needs to eat. It will get the
nutrition that it needs to get, and a lot of things will balance out that are perhaps
out of kilter.
So I've seen, for example, dogs that if they are fed particular preservatives that are
in some foods, they will do to dogs what they do to people. And so you can have a dog that
has got energy problems, either too much or too little, that can immediately be balanced
out with the right diet which is raw meat. Now, I wouldn't say for a second that if a
dog has got an aggressive behavioral problem that feeding it raw cures the problem, but
it's certainly one of the biggest stepping stones into fixing that problem. Because if
the aggression is coming from a byproduct of the wrong diet, so their dog has got too
much energy or the dog is basically being fed too many calories and not being given
the opportunity to burn them off.
By feeding it a natural diet that it would eat in the wild, you are taking the right
step into putting that dog onto a balanced, level playing field in terms of its nutrition.
So I would go as far as to say that if you've got a dog with behavioral problems look at
the diet first, and have absolutely no fear in trying to feed it raw as a way to try and
start working with the dog at its natural level in terms of its energy levels and health.