I've been doing a lot of reading up on the bird flu recently, and it seems that in countries where cats and other animals contracted the disease, researchers think they likely got it from eating infected raw poultry of some sort. Big cats in a zoo, for example, got it from eating raw chicken carcasses. And the CDC says that IF dogs were to start contracting the disease, it would probably be similar--from eating infected birds. Though bird flu isn't here yet, they are recommending that people make sure their chicken is cooked thoroughly, etc., just in case an infected bird ends up in production. I got this info from the CDC and WHO web sites, in case anyone wants to look it up.
Does anyone feeding raw worry about this? I know that the bird flu has not hit the United States yet, but I feel it's only a matter of time, and I am starting to really second-guess the feeding of raw chicken.
In fact, I haven't fed any raw chicken to the dogs in weeks because it really concerns me.
Am I the only one?