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Current knowledge about the risks and benefits of raw meat–based diets for dogs and cats
Authors Lisa M. Freeman, Marjorie L. Chandler, Beth A. Hamper, and Lisa P. Weeth

The feeding of RMBDs to dogs and cats has received increasing attention in recent years. The American Animal Hospital Association,1 AVMA,2 and Canadian Veterinary Medical Association3 have adopted statements discouraging the inclusion of raw or undercooked animal-source protein in dog and cat diets. The Delta Society's Pet Partners Program expressed concern that pets in a therapy animal program could be shedding pathogens in the presence of immunocompromised humans and other at-risk human populations. Therefore, they adopted in 2010 a policy that precludes animals that eat RMBDs from participating in their therapy animal program.4
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in Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
Page(s):
1549–1558
Online Publication Date:
01 Dec 2013
Diet-associated dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs: what do we know?
Authors Lisa M. Freeman, Joshua A. Stern, Ryan Fries, Darcy B. Adin, and John E. Rush

Diet-associated DCM first came to light in cats in the late 1980s 1 and in dogs in the mid-1990s. 2 The association between diet and DCM in dogs has generally not been much in the news since the early 2000s, but over the past few years, an increasing number of DCM cases involving dogs appear to have been related to diet. The extent of this issue is not clear, not all cases have been confirmed to be linked to diet, and a true association has not been proven to exist. However, when one of the authors (RF) recently
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in Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
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1390–1394
Online Publication Date:
01 Dec 2018