# Dog food thread. What should we be feeding them? BARF? Iams? Snacks? Rawhides? Et al **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-food-thread-what-should-we-be-feeding-them-barf-iams-snacks-rawhides-et-al/598805 "2011-10-06T17:36:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-food-thread-what-should-we-be-feeding-them-barf-iams-snacks-rawhides-et-al/598805/81 "2011-10-11T11:45:49Z")
I was going to start answering your post about the immune system, but gave up before **FrillyNettle** responded. Suffice to say, it is a hijack from a thread about nutrition, re-state that you’re not really informed about how the immune system works, and point out that the targets, mechanisms, and pathways used in vaccines are different from the natural bacterial infections such as E. coli and Salmonella that **FrillyNettles** mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![thelabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@thelabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelabdude)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-food-thread-what-should-we-be-feeding-them-barf-iams-snacks-rawhides-et-al/598805/82 "2011-10-11T13:16:59Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > Since you are spending an awful lot of time dodging and weaving on this subject, which affects you not at all, I think it’s just as well that we decide not to correspond. Those who want to feed kibble get no grief from me - it’s too bad that you all cannot extend that courtesy to raw feeders. If you want to endanger your dog and your self for no good reason, fine. I haven’t said anything about that. What I have have done is protest the hogwash about kibbles you are using to sucker the unwary in. ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-food-thread-what-should-we-be-feeding-them-barf-iams-snacks-rawhides-et-al/598805/83 "2011-10-11T22:09:32Z")
> [@KarlGrenze](#): > > I was going to start answering your post about the immune system, but gave up before **FrillyNettle** responded. Suffice to say, it is a hijack from a thread about nutrition, re-state that you’re not really informed about how the immune system works, and point out that the targets, mechanisms, and pathways used in vaccines are different from the natural bacterial infections such as E. coli and Salmonella that **FrillyNettles** mentioned. I am well aware of how the immune system works - I’m an allergic, I know first hand what happens when it is working overtime or is overloaded. As for the rest of what you say, since you have zero proof that what I’ve said is wrong, I really don’t know why you continue to try to nit pick this to death. But, you are right, that whole thing was a hijack on her part. My point was and still is that a raw diet is a healthy way feed dogs, and people who haven’t done it or at the very least done any research on it shouldn’t be insisting that it is dangerous or unhealthy or whatever their personal problem is. It really isn’t anyone’s business what anyone else feeds their pets, just like I don’t know and don’t care what you feed yours. > [@thelabdude](#): > > If you want to endanger your dog and your self for no good reason, fine. I haven’t said anything about that. What I have have done is protest the hogwash about kibbles you are using to sucker the unwary in. Endanger myself and my dogs? Hardly. I spend most of my time trying to make sure that they aren’t being exposed to potential risks. And what hogwash about kibble is that? Are you still on about the joke about sawdust - did you really think I was serious, or are you just flailing about for something you can “prove” I’m wrong about? Don’t think I haven’t noticed that every time I shoot down some point of yours, you just ignore it and try something new. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-food-thread-what-should-we-be-feeding-them-barf-iams-snacks-rawhides-et-al/598805.md?page=4)