Allow me to paint you a picture:
Three dogs, 35, 75 and 90lbs respectively and 3 cats are all patiently, well impatiently for the cats, waiting for dinner to be prepared and served. I have weighed out the meaty portion of the dogs diet and added the appropriate supplements for each pup, I now simply have to add the vegetables. I had thawed them earlier, a lovely mix of lettuce, zucchini, broccoli, kale, bananas etc all pureed to a fine pulp, 6 cups in all, ready to dish out. As I reach with the spoon to begin adding to the first doggy dish, Bonze (all 12 impatient feline pounds) jumps up to the serving area startling me and causing the spoon to push the veggie container off the edge of the counter.
Begin slow motion video capture now:
The container falls, open end up, hits the tile floor wherein 6 cups of pureed vegetables and fruit go flying into the air all over the room. The floor is coated, the wall is smeared, even the ceiling is now spackled with veggies. The cats have vegetables in their fur only the dogs were spared due to their patient waiting outside the room. Myself, I am coated, having been the closest victim aside from Bonze. There is puree in my hair, all down my side, all over my face and across my glasses and somehow even in my eyes. I tell you, veggies bits in your eyes are painful, especially three hours later when they still aren't gone! At this point the cats have fled and the dogs break and come flying into the room to check out the commotion, now veggies are being tracked everywhere! It was quite the debacle.
Sigh.
So there you have it, the true, previously hushed dangers of raw feeding.
NB - while this episode seems truly frightening and horrifying the animals are now recovered and both paws and fur are veggie free once more. we now take extra precautions to prevent future recurrences of such horrors.
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