[rawfeeding] Re: Feeding bloat dog

--- In rawfeeding@yahoogroups.com, "Ingrid" <iar2@...> wrote:
>
>
> This is probably getting a little off-topic, but if you are referring
> to the Purdue study, the elevated dishes thing is highly suggestive
as
> 'spurious correlation' - meaning that the majority of the owners
> surveyed were owners of breeds predisposed to bloat and the majority
> of them used raised feeders.

*** Why yes, I was referring to the Purdue study. I have said
previously that it can be argued that those studies are all pretty
much complete bs. However, think about why all those owners were
feeding from elevated dishes. It was because previous studies had
suggested that feeding off the floor was a risk factor and feeding
from elevated dishes would prevent bloat. The study to which you
refer, whether or no it is spurious correlation, at least showed that
feeding from elevated dishes did not lessen the chance of bloat,
whether or not it proved that elevated dishes increased such chances.
Statistically, it did show that elevated dishes increased bloat risk,
though we can argue about the degree of statistical significance.

As Chris has been saying, we cannot do anything about the biggest risk
factors, so instead we do all sorts of other behaviors (best described
as superstitious) in an attempt to appease the Bloat God and turn His
attention away from our dogs. Some of these behaviors are harmless
(limiting exercise for x hours after a meal), others, I think, are to
the detriment of our dogs (feeding multiple small meals a day to big
dogs designed to eat large infrequent meals).

And, for any given behavior, I can find a person who claims her dogs
have never bloated because of that behavior, and I can find another
person who claims her dogs bloated even though she conducted the
ritual behavior religiously. So, rather than focus on minimizing the
risk of bloat, I choose to focus on maximizing the health of my dogs.

--Carrie

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