Feeding raw or BARF

I looked in to feeding raw some time again, I must admit I got caught up in the emotional side of it, i.e Dry food isn't natural, you're not giving your dog the best, and so on. An argument that I think is unfair, raw should stand on it's own benefits, not on the owners short comings.

The basis of the argument that raw is more natural because a dog is essentially a wolf doesn't stand up, current scientific research points to dogs and wolves having a common ancestor, just as we share a common ancestor with other species, no one would say we are essentially a tree living animal, so why a similar connection between dogs and wolves?

If dogs were domesticated wolves, then they would revert to wolf like form after a few generations of none human intervention in breeding, they don't though, they revert back to the form known as Pariah dogs, which is more like the form of other species of canines, coyotes, dingos, singing dogs etc.

This is a link to the theory that dogs are not wolves, I have lots of such links, but this one is probably the easiest to read.

http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2006/10/controversial-origins-of-domestic-dog.html

Those species don't eat solely raw, they, are opportunistic feeders, so I suppose it could be argued that not feeding junk food to our dogs we're not giving them the best.

I did get as far as trying it, one dog did as well on as she did on dry food, one had occasional squits and the one it just ran straight through her.

I also looked at driving the costs down of feeding raw by ordering large amounts of food with two friends, apart from the extra outlay of a freezer to store it in, we just couldn't get the price down to anything like feeding dry food.

There's also the convenience side to it, we like to go away a lot for long weekends with the dogs, that presents a problem with storing their food, especially in the summer with out it going off.

I meet hundreds of dogs each year and get to spend time with them, quite a lot of them are fed raw and to be honest, with out being told, I couldn't tell a raw fed dog from a dry fed dog, although I think raw feeding does have the benefit of keeping a dogs teeth cleaner.

So my conclusion is that feeding raw is good for some people, feeding dry is good for other people, and neither are doing wrong by their dogs for choosing it.