The best part of this video is that it reminds all of us that experts don't actually know everything. I commend you for recognizing that you are still learning.

I actually remember the video with Mariah and Dr. Billinghurst and even though he disagreed with her, he also said that he thinks Mariah has probably done more to promote and explain raw feeding than anyone. I agree, she has helped me to understand why raw and species appropriate food is so beneficial for our pets

Love these videos, they are so helpful! My unpopular opinion is that even a moderately imperfect homemade diet is going to be WAY healthier and more nutritious than any processed kibble or canned food. I always tell people to learn the very basics and start feeding that, then continue to learn as they go, and just make improvements as they learn more.

I’ve always been thinking, “How come humans do fine eating poorly balanced meals?” So this answers my question.

So many people are put off feeding raw because raw seems so complicated. This is a great video 🥰

First, I love the humility you expressed in this video. That's so hard to do! I love that you have a hunger to learn more about raw feeding!... I thought it was great to hear about the balance over time. I often think about if dogs were in the wild, would they know what they need? How would they find "balance" in the wild? This helps me understand that dogs will be fine with what they are given "what they find", as they always have been for centuries. Of course, we want them to be as healthy as possible, and just like us, as we grow, that can be achieved. Taking that approach has helped me not stress as I continue to grow in knowledge as a dog owner.

I have a 2 year old dog I have raw fed since he was 6 weeks old (with a lot of help from your channel!). I couldn't balance his meals daily, and I have no access to spleen, green tripe, or mussels. He refused to eat dog food because he saw our older 12 year old dog eating raw meat and he decided he would not eat any more kibble. Since I couldn't balance daily, I was going to leave him on kibble until he grew up enough, but after a day and a half of walking away from his meals without touching them, I switched him over to raw and gave him the same badly balanced meals I was giving my 12 year old (she was 10 at the time, and I was just starting raw feeding, so I wasn't good at balancing which is why I wanted to raise him up on kibble.) Both of my dogs have refused all vegetables, so I've had to do the Prey Model only. My dogs are the most healthy animals I see at the park, or anywhere we go. My 2 year old is the most balanced dog I've ever met, he has incredible energy and has grown up to be almost three times the weight he was supposed to be (Both parents are below 2.5kg and he weighs a whooping 6.2kg). Most of his life I've only been able to source hearts and livers, and the occasional kidney, and I give them yogurt and egg. They also like eating the pet grass I grow for them every now and then, as I'm unable to find really good fiber sources like fur and feathers. Other than that it's mostly just muscle meat and ground bones (from turkey necks or chicken feet and neck). They're both extremely active dogs that go to the park to run every morning, during the hotter months they both go camping with me (I can the meat in jars when we camp (with a little rice and vegetables to make up for the lack of bone), so they eat cooked at those times), and every few weeks we take a whole day trip to hike up the mountains around Santiago, Chile and my dogs love it. The 12 year old has more energy now than she did on kibble when she was 4 years old. Anyway, my point is that my 2 year old is the healthiest dog I've ever seen, and even though his meals have never been 100% balanced, and in some cases not balanced at all, he's still the healthiest dog I've ever seen. So I would definitely recommend a poorly balanced raw diet over any kibble. In my experience Dogs grow up fine with unbalanced meals, and they thrive just by getting real meat.

I've been watching your videos for a couple years now. I really appreciate the fact that you have evolved, started thinking for yourself. You have educated yourself, but you were also using common sense. You are questioning things, and that is very important to do. Keep it up and make more of these videos. You have the guts to say and popular things. But it's only unpopular in certain circles. I think the majority agree with you.

Nice to hear! I often times see that we worry perhaps a little TOO much in the quest for better nutrition. PMR with protein variety rotated and the addition of extra things like omega 3s and manganese seem to work a treat for my cat. Don't overthink it. Just read up and do your best!

I’m not a raw proponent and have been in veterinary therapeutic nutrition for 34 years, but I love your attitude of always learning, and yes, even willing to be wrong! Refreshing example, especially for those of us on KZfaq channels. I think we have to accept the idea of investing the time, love and energy into feeding your pet raw is not for everyone.and as even with kibble, finding the right raw folks to trust is hard.

This was an excellent video and helped dispel some of my confusion. I do occasionally add Raw pumpkin seeds to my homemade mix but I don't do it on a regular basis. Also finding out that pasture hens lay eggs with more vitamin d has also been a huge help and so I am only using pasture eggs as well as free roam quail eggs.

Great video! I'd imagine most who go raw already have a dog, so hyperfixating on a puppies nutrition is a moot point. Just get raw food in your dog, with close nutiontion profile and then hammer out kinks and personal needs over time. My service dog who I got at 5yrs was put on raw due to ulcer from dry food. Every blood and lab work he had was fabulous and lived to be 13. He was an Akita mix and they have ridiculously sensitive tummies. Love you Mr. Wolf 😙

Thanks for your videos! I got started with my cats with your videos being a main source of my jumping off for other research. I think that was about 3 years ago, but it may have been 4 when I started to really dive into research. Its great to know that you are a Pet Nutritionist now! I have even got my local butcher, who gets meat from local grassfed farms, making a mostly balanced blend of all the organ, muscle and bones plus pasture raised eggs and sometimes bone broth. Which makes it easy for me to recommend to friends. We used your cheat sheet as a basis and I gave him other details on percentages of egg or bone broth.

This makes me feel so much better. Ty. Continuing education is #1 great job!

Thank you so much! I’ve always met zinc requirements but never zinc ratios but now your making me think it’s all okay thank you!

Thank you for sharing! I have been following your videos and really appreciate how you not only just say "you should do this", but you actually list the reasoning behind it and back it up with science and stats. I've learned a lot from your videos like using oysters and mussels. Those were things that are never talked about in raw feeding. It's always just 80-10-10 and leaving it at that. So I appreciate not only the insight, but the fact that you don't stop there but you keep researching and learning to better the information you give out.

Thank you for sharing! Im learning a lot of great stuff!

I'm actually relieved to hear that growing puppies can balance over time. I stressed so much over my pug, but honestly, this makes me feel better as a whole about what I feed him!

When I calculated cooked home diets for my dogs since 2007 it called for zinc. It’s also important to get the zinc to copper ratio correct

I've been a strong believer of balance over time. I have to question the "Complete and Balanced" concept for every meal as applying the AAFCO nutrient levels... 1. Those levels seem to be based off of synthetic vitamins and minerals as applied by the pet food companies, 2. synthetic vitamins and minerals may be harder to digest than those from natural fresh food, 3. those requirement levels (vitamins and minerals) set forth by AAFCO have not really been tested over time to see if they are in fact the true requirements, 4. like people, each animal is different and thus they're nutritional requirements are different. We can never know what the true requirements are. I rotate feed my dogs nine different kinds of meat (with intermittent feeing of sardines weekly) throughout a two-week/three-week period to help insure they are getting what they need. They get muskrat, beaver, chicken, turkey, sheep, goat, duck, pig, and rabbit. This includes the associated organ meat that is ground with that particular animal I am feeding my dog. I too got too caught up in balancing every meal and it drove me nuts. I am always tweaking and updating what and how I feed my dogs, but it is still based on a "Balance Over Time" concept.

your videos are always so well done, clear, and informative. thank you for being the cause of my cats eating a purely carnivore and raw diet. thank you for taking the time to break down the percentages and grams you use for Tangy personally, it really helped me when I first started.

Definitely agree with these unpopular opinions! I have thought for a while that the "puppies and kittens can't store nutrients" was a bit off. Sure, adults may have a better capacity, but if young animals were really so vulnerable, I would think thar fussy eaters would suffer a lot more from their eating habits. And I definitely didnt have the most balanced meal for my sheltie growing up, and while she does have health issues, they're things that are genetic/breed endemic rather than nutritional in basis. And to piggy back off the zinc discussion, as far as I've heard so far, aren't zinc recommendations based on supplements? We already know that the human body doesn't process supplements as well as it does nutrients from whole foods, so even if the nutrtion databases are accurate, it could just be that dogs and cats handle the natural form of zinc better than the supplement. Excellent video, as always!

I keep coming back to your videos and it's good to see that you're still learning and passing your new found knowledge on to the rest of us, keep it up! I've been adding a miniscule amount of kelp powder and a heaped teaspoon of soaked, chopped sunflower/poppy seeds to my pups food for a year now. Her meal always contains red meat so I've recently cut out the seeds and I'm using up the last of the Kelp powder. I tried a raw egg once and she had terrible diarrhoea so I'm reluctant to try that again. What does the egg bring to the party that the red meat is lacking so that I can find something else to fill the nutrient gaps?

I agree with ur opinions. Especially the last one on nuts and seeds. Nuts and seeds r hard for us to digest and deplete us of minerals that it takes to break them down if already deficient in vitamins and minerals. Nuts, seeds, and legumes should always be soaked first to make them bioavailable so that they don't deplete us of minerals. Fermenting them is even better as it makes them even more bioavailable, where the body can absorb the nutrients from them.

Wow, another not only brilliantly produced/ edited video, but so helpful. I'm always stressing about my dog's raw diet and questioning myself if he's getting enough of the right nutrients. These videos always help. And put my mind a little more at ease.

I agree completely and happy you have changed your opinions. We are all constantly learning and this will likely continue. My dogs are 15 and almost 15. I have never ever given them any supplements in their entire life. One of them is very sensitive to shellfish and green tripe, both very high in histamines. So I don’t feed these. At 15 years of age she still can run like a two year old. Her ligaments seem find even though she was spayed at 6 months. Neither of them have any health issues. They have been raw fed homemade for over 13 years. They also eat zero plant matter. In fact, I am on the carnivore diet myself. Plants have all sorts of antinutrients and their bioavailability for dogs is questionable. More and more I am leaning towards Dr. Billinhurst's simple approach. I know he recommends plant matter, however, and I just don't do plants. They are also a big source of pesticides. And nuts and seeds can go rancid easily. I have learned to do what works best for my dogs. Dog nutrition has gotten way too complicated and is scaring people from doing it.

At first I went with the balance every day method, now I just feed my kitties a variety of species appropriate foods in approximate ratios + whole prey. They are happier and healthier his way actually lol Once you get the basics of balancing the rest is easy and you learn as you go!

I love your honesty and the quality of your video! Thank you for publishing your unpopular opinions on raw feeding. I think that raw feeders have a tendency on overthinking this type of dog food. My unpopular opinion is that it's OK to mix kibble and/or canned with raw. When we travel and my pup Wally comes along for the ride, I will sometimes - gasp - mix canned dog food with raw. It's just so much easier than schlepping along tons of fresh raw meals, and he's just fine eating that for a few weeks.

Well i do worry a bit about my cats getting all the nutrients they need but i saw your opinion changing and it helped me. I belong to FB Raw Fed and Nerdy and while they are great folks, it makes me want to hide my head in the sand. I've spent literally an hour at the nutrient calculator changing ratios and ingredients trying to balance and just gave up, not to mention i can't source spleen, etc.

I just wish more people who take a moment to educate themselves. Everyone claims salmonella and other pathogens and while yes, it is a risk. . .do the majority of these people not cook? Most home cooks handle raw meat every day, or at least every other depending on home life and while yes, those meats are being cooked. . .you're usually handling them raw to prep them. I haven't switched our boys yet, though I've been working to introduce as much variety as I can by way of toppers/treats so that the eventual switch goes smoother. We'll probably start out with a pre-made grind when we're able to have freezer space first and while they're adjust to that I'll start really getting into the gritty part of learning how to balance and looking at what variety I can order to us. . .living in the fairly rural central part of the country means almost everything is going to have to be ordered. There is an asian market about an hour away I'll probably convince my husband to make the occasional run to. . .but we need to get things settled financially first. For now they get high quality single ingrediant treats and tidbits of whatever protein we're cooking.

I love your videos. You help to keep people well informed and reassure them in the process. Do not stop! No matter our opinions, they will always be unpopular with some. *The following is just my personal opinion.* I agree with most of your unpopular opinions. A doctor once told me he did not recommend to his patients taking supplements or vitamins unless a deficiency was diagnosed or unless you had a disease that impacted the absorption of certain nutrients. Why would it be different for animals? Among his arguments were the following: generally, the synthetic molecule of the supplement is not the same as that found naturally in food. Our bodies have not evolved to adapt to the synthetic molecule and it is unclear how this molecule can interact or even interfere with other molecules and processes. In addition, over-the-counter supplements are not governed by as strict rules as prescription drugs and contamination is possible and not as rare as we think. So my unpopular opinion is that adding synthetic supplements to the recipe of my pets only increases my uncertainty of what's actually in it (here, I am just talking about synthetic supplements, natural complements such as oysters, mussels, seeweed, etc are fine to me). In addition, I find that balancing according to the NRC to the nearest nutrient gives the impression that it is too complicated and discourages people from switching to a homemade diet which could be beneficial to their pets (while several studies have shown that even commercial recipes do not respect the NRC when sent to the laboratory). I believe it is important to understand which foods provide which nutrients to your pet and that it is important to be well informed since our animals are not humans and do not have the same needs. Still too many people simplify their pet's diet a little too much, leading to significant deficiencies. In my opinion, variety is important, but we leave chemistry aside! We're not chemists. I trust millions of years of evolution more than a few decades of studies (which are not always impartial). And I also believe that there are several ways to feed your animal well and I have the impression that even among raw feeders, people divide and judge each other instead of helping each other and informing each other, which I find particularly unfortunate, because it only serves the pet food industry. *Sorry if my English is not perfect, I am a French Canadian.

Yay! Welcome to the other side...it just takes time & experience, but most people feeding raw over 20-30 years share these opinions, too. 🤗👏

Green tripe is my favourate raw food ingredient, it's got loads of manganese and other vitamins and minerals, gives them the amino acids of a muscle meat and connective tissue and contains the probiotic and prebiotics required for a complete diet.

Thanks for this video! Sometimes I do rely on zinc supplements mainly because red meats are out of budget very often, but I usually use zinc gluconate, which is less upseting to GI system! Also I share your opinion on seeds and nuts, which sounds pretty logical for carnivorous animals to not use them

Raw bones (never cooked) are important (especiallyfor teeth,) just make sure they are size appropriate, dont give a schitzu a bison femur, lol We feed with mostly beef, some chicken, frequent egg yolks, and occasional raw fish, occasional offal, liver, . We've never had dogs that were so mobile, energetic and clear eyed at 11 years. 2 Jack Russells. Thank you for your channel.

I do balance over time because I feel simpler ingredients might be less burden for human and pets especially a pet with sensitive stomach or food allergy. The only supplement I use is vitamin e, and occasionally organs powder because there are few types of organs(eg: cow thymus, pancreas..) not commonly seen in my area.

Whether your opinion is unpopular or not, i most appreciate the fact you are willing to say you dont know everything. We are human. In my line of work, i never claim to know it all. The ones that do know it all tend to know nothing.

Excellent video!

This video came at a good time, been thinking about getting a zinc supplement for the past couple weeks and now I have my answer.

Ever since I've heard about the raw diet, I have wanted to put our new pup on it fully and be 110% perfect with every meal. Following you has helped me a lot with my raw feeding, and I'm even more glad that you talked about your past videos and things you disagree with now! It makes me feel better about what I'm trying to do, and I'm not hurting her in any way if I miss a bit of iron one day and zinc the next. I would like to ask if you will be redoing the balancing raw meals video? I don't want to tell you what you should do with your channel of course, but I'd like to know your current opinions on raw feeding and balancing :)

Entertaining video. Clever way to word your opinions. I totally agree. Red meat provides all the zinc a cat needs daily. Zinc and proper, even slightly lean body weight help to prevent arthritis in dogs and cats.

This came at the perfect time! We`ve recently added two 4 mo old kittens to the family and I was really stressing about balancing and making sure they get everything they need, but one of them does not want to eat red meats, such as: beef, lamb and deer. She just refuses her entire plate of food when I try. She does love turkey, chicken, duck, quail and some fish. She also loves raw goats yoghurt that I make myself . I just keep looking for foods to add that she will eat, but It`s nice to know there`s no harm done in a short period of time.

I love your videos, they are so well made both visually and filled with information. I have a question about feeding my cat. I currently feed my cat wet food 4x day. I want to be able to replace one meal once in a while with a whole prey, like chicks, mice, and rabbits. How would you recommend I go about that? He's currently 1 yr old and has never had any raw food or a whole animal.

When I started feeding raw, it was to try to get constant GI upset under control. At the time red meat or any kind caused the same GI upset. So all I fed her was chicken and turkey. I gave her liver in every way I could think of (frozen, dried, etc) but she never ate it. I fed berries and veggies that other peoples dogs liked and she wouldn’t eat even one tiny bite. So in addition to chicken and Turkey all I could get her to eat was sardines and eggs. That was her entire diet for… about 2 years until I began slowly introducing red meats and pork, found where to source other secreting organs and a broader variety of muscular organs, and eventually figured out I could mix pureed veggies and fruit, along with finely chopped liver into ground beef. She’s had a balanced diet, every meal, for the last 2.5 years. But I say all of this because even when she wasn’t eating a balanced diet she had great labs, tons of energy, shiny coat, healthy skin, clear eyes, maintained the perfect weight and had consistent firm poop. Most of that couldn’t be said when she was on kibble. She’s 6.5 now, and is perfect and healthy. If she had been on kibble for those 2 years she was only eating chicken, sardines and eggs, I don’t know if that would be the case. Hard to know. I just remember her being miserable with a dull, sparse coat, constant diarrhea and unable to gain weight no matter how much she ate.

Zinc also available in water, dont be scared, variety is the key

Also, an unpopular opinion that i have is that these "EZ complete" or nutrition completion powders are a bit shady imo, and that eggshell powder is not a true replacement for a raw meaty bone since these wet grinds dont offer teeth cleaning!

I do agree about balancing over time. I no longer panic whenever a nutrient is low for a few weeks. However, I still try my best to provide my cat with a balanced meal daily.

Your videos is so helpful 🐾🎯

Green tripe should be easy to source if you have a local home kill butcher that is willing to give or sell you the stomach's fresh from the animals they kill. Although you may have to be willing to dig through their offal bins to get it and be able to stomach the smell of fresh green tripe. As a plus, the spleen is usually attached. Although I would suggest leaving the abomasum behind.

I am starting to dig into making home made dog food, I lost my dog recently and going forward when I get another dog, I want them toe at home made food. I just don't trust companies, no matter who they are, to not mess up our pets diet. For all I know, a life on mostly kibble could have potentially caused problems in my dog. I want ot be better, losing pets is so hard I don't want o be the reason for any health issues. Thank you for the information and the recognition that we always are learning, no matter what position we are in.

Mariah, have you looked into the Bones and Co. raw patties? If so, how do you feel about them? I’ve had a hard time finding reviews that aren’t from within the company, which makes me unsure if I want to try it for my pup.

Ferret raw feeders have been feeding ferrets both adults and kits a diet that is balanced by the week for many many years and have had no issues with it. Also, carnivores in the wild, ESPECIALLY those that live in groups don't get to eat every part of the prey every meal, so that means that their diet isn't always balanced.

I agree with all of this. And I think it would do people some good to go back and read the old books by Tom Lonsdale and Ian Billinghurst. Those two doctors have decades upon decades of experience with literally thousands of animals. I would not dismiss what they say. Just because they're not new. New does not always mean better. I've been feeding Raw for 20 years, and I've seen a lot of trends. Come and go. But I think the current trend of trying to get a daily balanced diet is really hurting the community and not helping the animals nearly as much as some people may think. Often the people that push this idea the hardest have a financial interest.

Love the channel. Have you read Tom Lonsdale’s book “raw meaty bones”?

I took this approach too.

What do you think about adding chia seeds? Thank you!

excellent!

Haven't started mine yet! We pick up our puppy in 3 days!! :DDDD my first dog. We will be going to raw but will be doing so via a transition. No idea what to expect but it will be interesting.

Hi so im looking into getting ferrets do you know if Raw paws ferret food is a good food? I want to homeade raw feed but its confusing and stressful and im trying ti see if they make good Raw food since it would be easier

Ive only watched 2 of your videos and I think youre brilliant. oI'm old...our cats from the 1960's ate kit e kat ( tinned cat food) and what we ate. they alll lived well over 15 years. Now people feed their cats biscuits WTF. or cats caught raw meat if they needed it or ran off with a piece of meat mum dropped on the floor when cooking.

Question!! I have 6 cats all currently eating friskies cat food and we’re considering a raw diet. But 1 cat lost his teeth in an accident outside! How do we feed bones? Do we grind them? Please send feedback soon.😢

I agree 100 percent

Keep in mind that the daily "requirements" are based on dogs eating a crappy kibble diet. Kibble that contains anti nutrients from plant materials and processed ingredients. Without those anti nutrients blocking the absorption of nutrients, the daily requirements are very different. Often much lower. And there are no wild wolves or dogs out there eating oysters and zinc pills.

I've seen tons of raw feeders meal prepping for the next few weeks, usually using one container for one meal. Is it really safe to mix different raw meats together in one container without bacterial growth or cross contamination? Is there a study that can back this up?

I agree with all of them, especially the Zinc one. I have fed my little guy zinc supplements and every time I do he gets horrible diarrhea. I figured that was his body telling me it doesn't like them and they aren't needed,

I've been raw feeding my dogs for over 15 years and I love your channel. It is the only source of level headed, well researched information on raw feeding out there. However I must admit I always doubted the need to balance every day 😅 it just doesn't seem like something evolution would come up with. And even though our dogs might not be wolves anymore, I doubt they would have survived and thrived for so long if they had needed a perfectly balanced diet. My grandpa was a forester and bred German short-hair pointers for decades. Their food from puppy to old age consisted exclusively of green tripe and raw meaty bones he got for free from the local butcher, oatmeal and any hunted game "leftovers" ie fur, antlers, organs, heads, feet etc. He did this because he couldn't afford expensive kibble and had the healthiest, best looking, most sought after working dogs in the region 😂

About zinc, in my pet nutrition study I learned that grains have a negative affect on zinc. The NRC and other guidelines are based on commercial foods that sometimes do contain grains. So I think that maybe those numbers are higher than what we actually need in raw diets. What do you think?

Hoping you have advice for the main issue i face. When i feed my cats things like raw chicken feet they latch onto it with their hands while the rip it apart. How do i deal with the potential bacteria spread from their little hands all covered in raw chicken walking on the furniture etc

If only people paid half as much attention to their own diets as we seem to do to dog food, we'd all be a lot healthier. Most human children eat diets that aren't remotely close to balanced every day. I'm certain it's true and you are right that there is room for imperfection.

Is EZ complete okay to feed with meats?

So i wonder if using pumpkin seeds for deworming is the best to do or only use it when you need it? A raw diet keeps the immune system healthy in order to fight off parasites . So us feeding our pets. A raw diet should essentially be enough ? 🧐

Any advice on a picky eater? I am trying to switch my dog to raw but he isn't taking to it as well as I'd hoped! He didn't know what to do with a chicken foot haha. And sometimes he will eat raw grind and other times he doesn't!

I disagree with the 3rd one for dogs since we made them omnivores but for cats and ferrets I do agree with

I loved this video! Please do another! I really would like to feed my dog raw but she has tons of protein allergies, so i cant rotate proteins accept between pork muscle meat only, rabbit and chicken. Thats all my dog could eat, do u have any recommendations? Is that enough rotating meats???? Please help!

I mostly watched your cat videos. I have a problem with adding a Vitamin E supplement every day, especially if it's not given with Vitamin C. Also, I don't suggest giving seafood regularly to cats. Certain seafoods, like raw sardines, mussels, and oysters, contain thiaminase which is an enzyme that destroys Thiamine (B1). Eating these seafoods every day can cause neurological problems. Cooking does destroy thiaminase, and it's OK to feed a cooked sardine once in awhile, but I would never feed fish regularly to a cat. Fish, amongst other things, is also linked to hyperthyroidism in cats.

So can we add nuts/seeds on occasion just like tripe, eggs and red meat?

Nutrition is science, and science is NOT set in stone. Science evolves as new information is learned. Our understanding must evolve with new information.

Are you ever worried about salmonella being spread around your floor when they eat? My bf and I got into it because our dog ate the raw chicken feet on the carpet 😢 I just want them to be healthy and he read a bunch of articles saying raw can harm them

My unpopular opinion is that feeding bone is unnecessary and can be dangerous if not properly digested EVEN when it's ground finely. I know someone whose dog had a severely irritated throat and esophagus from repeatedly puking up food with fine bits on bone. It was so bad the dog needed steroids to bring the inflammation down. It's also easy for them to consume too much calcium... I think ground eggshells are safer all around and bones should just be a treat for chewing if anything.

how did you conclude zinc supplements are not necessary when they could be not bioavailable as a supplement? also wouldn't pureed nuts and seeds be in the digestive tracts of their prey?

Gender & neutering affect zinc levels in doggos

My unpopular opinion is that the 80 10 10 or 70 10 10 concept is nonsense. My thinking on this is that wild canids would not always eat entire prey items, but would instead scavenge remains and when they captured prey focus on the most nutritious parts first. Then, when dogs starting living around humans ~40kya they were eating a lot of our leftovers, which we know dramatically increased the amount of bone in their diet. I think 80 10 10 is fine, but not "natural" necessary or even optimal. No idea what the optimal diet would be though! I think dogs are actually pretty flexible.

How did you become a Canine Nutritionist?

Stop. Many humans can eat JUST beef, nothing else, for 10+ years and they're fine. I eat 80/20 ground beef with rice for 90% of my meals, and I'm an athlete. Nutrient balance is not a thing, as long as they get sufficient red meat. Red meat is a COMPLETE food. It contains all nutrients for both humans and dogs.

If your dog has kidney disease, raw meaty bones will not help. Use eggshells instead. Also, feed lots of green tripe. I don’t agree with Dr. Ian Billinghurst’s advice to feed 60% of your dog’s diet with raw meaty bones. Horrible advice! Listen to him with a grain of salt.

To comment on the nuts and seeds thing. I would assume that nuts and seeds can be a good supplement if steps are taken to try and aid the absorption of the nutrition - like soaking and blending... Also would wild carnivores not eat some of the stomach and intestinal content of the pray animal, which might indeed be seeds and nuts whyfore we can assume with some degree of certainty that nutrient from nuts and seeds are absorbed?