Hi -- I second Shirley H's comment. I am sometimes disappointed to come to the end of an interestiing post and then to see the person has asked to have responses sent privately. Similarly, though I know some of the subjects hae been done to death, I was sort of sorry to see the raw/kibble discussion wont go on. Of course someimes enough is enough, especially when people start to focus mostly on asserting or defending themselves. But whe nit is just an old subject -- like Why do they poop outside their boxes and what can I do? , well then people who aren't interested can skim and those new to the idea can get ideas, and the rest of us can be entertained and probably pick up one more hint. I guess with the raw-kibble thing, it made me remember that iI had never come to a decision about what I thought (other than that i know I am pretty squeamish...) and I started thinking about the issue again. I even looked at those links for pinkies, but couldn't quite get my finger to click that line.... As a partway measure er investigating Raw, I have some bags of Wysong's Archetype 1 in my freezer, but lazy me, I never feel like going to the trouble that dehydrating takes and then balancing that vs the care needed to be sure it doesn't spoil. Plus most of my ferts didn't like it the one time I tried it -- like, um, a year ago, was it? Guess I'd better use it before it gets too old! [Posted in FML 5398]