Hissyfluff is past due for a check up, and I will be taking her in as soon as income taxes come back and I have a little money to spare. Her vet knows she is on a grain free wet diet. He may or may not know that I prepare it myself, I don't remember, but he certainly doesn't know that her food is not fully cooked. I had brought up raw feeding at one point without specifically telling him that she ate raw, but then the issues with her immune system came up and I started thoroughly cooking her food for a while. Her energy level went down; her normally soft coat started to become coarse and dry. This frightened me so I started using Dr. Pierson's method of cooking the outside of the food to kill bacteria while leaving 50-75% still raw. No problems so far.
I am going to have him run CBC and Wellness panels to make sure everything is copacetic, but I wonder if, because of her condition, I should tell him exactly what it is that Amber eats. I do not think he will yell or be unreasonable, as a certain vet in our past was, but I don't know if he will like it; I don't want to go in there looking for a fight (I am already stressing about how he may to react to my "no vaccines" stance), and I like this guy so much that I don't want to have something that blemishes my opinion of him (stupid, I know).
Besides, I have heard horror stories of vets refusing to treat raw-fed patients, quarantining them, and worse, blaming the food for everything without finding the real cause of her patients issues (Nevermind the baseball sized hairball, she eats bones, thats the problem; Don't bother checking for parvo, that puppy eats raw chicken, so its Salmonella poisoning). In fact, her first vet blamed Amber's staph infections on the food (which is ridiculous), and it wasn't until I swapped to my current vet that we found out her immune system may not be working properly.
What do you guys do? Does your vet know about what you feed? How involved does he/she get with the diet? Do you think I should leave it at "grain free wet diet" (which is technically not a lie)?