![]() She casually mentioned it would be interesting to see what the levels were in wolves. This was bothering me for a while when I mentioned it to my friend (check out her blog about her village dog in Africa). Kibble fed dogs can fall just outside normal ranges too. Despite the findings in the studyĭogs were falling within normal ranges or barely outside them in some cases, which is still ok. So if it's higher in raw fed dogs, is that really ok? I dug around online and found a forum and where owners had been posting the blood Higher hematocrit = thicker blood = harder on the dog's heartĪs it has to work harder to pump thicker blood. Hematocrit basically, from my understanding, measures the volume of red blood cells and thereby the viscosity of There should be a difference, but thought maybe I just didn't know enough about it (which is true as well, I knew nothing at all about blood levels before I started looking into this). ![]() Why would there be aĭifference in these 3 levels? Normal is normal for a reason, right? If the dog has eaten recently then it could cause elevated or reduced levels for a short time I suppose but to have a different normal level didn't make sense to me. The link to the study itself doesn't work anymore and I can't seem toįind it elsewhere. This claim is based on a study of 200 dogs fed a raw diet and points out 3 differences. It may be valuable for your pet to have successive laboratory results from previous years in order to determine what is normal for your dog. These slightly higher blood values are to be expected simply because these indicators are a measure of protein breakdown/metabolism and raw fed dogs receive a higher percentage of readily digestible and balanced animal protein in their diets. It is commonly thought that a different set of “normal” values should be developed for raw fed dogs. It claims there should be different "normal" blood levels for dogs depending on if they are fed raw or a processed food.
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