not really table scrapes, raw carrot, sweet potato & raw beef

My lab/gsp get all table scraps including all wild game, just don't over do it. His favorite is the dove heads, a reward for the retrieve. I didn't do this until he was older.

Raw meat is one of the best things you can give them. The large bags of chickens thighs are a great deal and good for their teeth. The dog show breeders feed the raw meat diet, I feed both dog food and raw, you will see a difference with raw meat, especially in their teeth. Deer leg bones are also good and they love them.

Though purely anecdotal, I am a believer in giving dogs as much "non dog food" as possible. Growing up in KY we had an accidental litter of puppies and $$$ was beyond tight for my grandparents. Luckily, it was deer season when they weaned and aside from very little cheap dog food, they got mostly deer legs, ribs, spines, organs, etc. I kept one of the puppies and he was one of THE smartest, healthiest dogs you could ever hope for. Coulda been genetic, coulda been environmental, but he was great.

I am of the school of thought that introducing novel protein sources in small amounts at young ages helps to prevent hypersensitive stomachs in dogs. Just don't overdo the fat (pancreatitis possible) and you'll be fine.

Several years ago a family move in next to me. They had a pair of Dobermans and they would piss me off to no end. Every time I would walk by the fence they would start barking like they were going to attack.
I wanted to warn them that if they jumped the fence, I would shoot them, so I walked up to the fence and told them that. She told me they were trained and they would listen to anything she said. I looked at the dogs teeth and it look like a tooth paste bright smile and their coats were shining . Latter we became friends and come to find out she is one of those dog judges on TV. I asked her what she fed them and she told me nothing but raw meat.
That was about 15 years ago and any chance I get, I give them raw meat.

Another thing, I was a Port-A fishing and at night I would walk out to the dock. Their was an older man who lived there with his dog. He would catch a few Croaker feed them to his dog right off the hook. I asked him about it and he said that he has been doing it for years.

Mine get trimmings from game while I'm cleaning it. Just not table scraps. No chips, left over mashed taters, none of that.

Your breeder's an intelligent person. Think about what we feed our dogs. Dried up, ultra-processed dog kibble. Do you think in his wild habitat your dog would EVER eat "animal by-product". No, he'd eat what was on the vine or in his kill. Everyone says dogs are carnivores, but that's wrong. Dog's are omnivores, meaning they east vegetables and fruit. Cats are carnivores. Carnivores cannot survive on just plan food and herbavores cannot servived on just meat product, omnivores can servive on either. You breeder is anintelligent person and I'd bet anything he's got pretty close to a zero record on health problems, his dogs live longer and do better and when they go crap in the yard it's smaller and doesn't stink the same as the rest of our dog's (all the undigestible stuff coming through our dogs leaves an odor for sure).