Good post. When I switched I went to a diet basically like the one in the Pit Bull Bible, not exactly but pretty much the same.

Looking back the biggest difference I saw was in the dogs who were not all that chain active. The spazzes that ran all day ( and night) were the same. They were high metabolism type dogs that just had energy to burn. I didn't see much change in these dogs. The less active chain dogs pretty much all lost weight and had a different muscle tone. They really looked different, same size yet lower weight within a couple of weeks.

Not being able to perform a double blind study or anything close to that, I attributed it to assimilation. The 'less active' dogs did not burn as many calories during the day and the raw food was better assimilated by the body. The dry food not so much, leaving both fat stores, water retention and waste along the way. The 'faster' dogs just needed calories. They would burn them up, good or bad, high or low quality.

I am not sure how accurate that is scientifically speaking but it was the observation I had on my dogs. I did not see a change in energy levels per dog. The spazzes were still spazzing and the less active dogs were still less active.

The real difference I noticed was going in to my first keep with a dog being fed raw. The 'walk out dump' just threw me. On kibble I could always count on a timely dump to get the work started. That first day or two turned into an hour long walk waiting for a dump that was simply not there. On raw the dog does not appear to carry as much waste from meal to meal.

2nd thing is that the dogs on raw come off of water a lot easier than those fed kibble. The dial in is easier, or at least I think it is easier.

Sorry for the babbling. EWO