A dog's immune system is designed to handle bacteria such as Samolella, E.Coli and Campylobacter jejuni. It is much more adept at this than the human body. If they are fed nothing but heat sterilized food, you are depriving them of the opportunity to develop an immune response to these and many other organisms. When your dog starts eating healthy foods he may after a short while, 'go off' his feed. It's probably that for the first time in his life, he is truly satisfied in a nutritonal sense.
Some owners just go 'cold turkey' and never look back.
Lots of people watch their dog deteriorate on commercial foods simply because they either don't know what else to feed, how to feed it or that they do need to feed something better in order to obtain or maintain optimal health. When dogs are switched to bones and raw food health problems either improve or disappear. The BARF diet is an easy, common sense approach to feeding your dog what he has evolved to eat. There are many ways to feed the diet. It is highly recommended that you read Give Your Dog a Bone and Grow Your Pups With Bones for more detailed information on BARF J oin the BARFcanada e-mail list to learn more about BARF, share stories and ask questions.