Honestly I don't buy the "no kibble and raw at the same time" thing as an across-the-board rule although I've read it in multiple places. The "digests at different rates" thing makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to me.
I feed them together at the same meal, and that's how many, many mushers feed their dogs, and I haven't personally seen problems or heard about problems from the mushers I know. YMMV. *shrug*
I feed them together at the same meal, and that's how many, many mushers feed their dogs, and I haven't personally seen problems or heard about problems from the mushers I know. YMMV. *shrug*
My dogs are raw fed and have been for I don't know 13 years? Maybe a bit more. I've raised litters on raw and my current dogs were all either started on raw or switched as puppies or as soon as I got them. That said, I usually keep kibble around just in case I forget to thaw food or am running short. They sometimes get raw and kibble together. They even sometimes get raw, oatmeal, veggies and eggs together. And no issues at all. The last litter I had here had some resource guarding tendencies, so I would leave a bowl of kibble out for them all the time and fed several small raw meals a day. They were all fine too. I switch my dogs to kibble when we travel and they do fine going back and forth.
It isn't really normal for dogs to have super sensitive digestive tracts that need careful management and feeding. They are scavengers by nature, animals who are designed to eat what ever they come across that might be edible. It is normal for them to be able to handle all different foods, to be at least somewhat hungry most of the time, to gorge themselves, to eat things which are overripe or even starting to rot and to have fairly flexible dietary requirements. Of course, some dogs have issues that do require careful management and feeding. And some dogs do better one certain things than others. But in general, dogs have far stronger digestive tracts than people and we eat raw food and processed food together all the time.