Is your dog on a raw food diet?

Is your dog on a raw food diet?

Apart from when we went camping (no fridge!) yes, he's on raw. Does very well on it, too!

No....happy with the dry kimble he is on at the moment. He looks great on it. It might be something I look into but at the moment some days I don't stop working till 10pm and I haven't got the time to be messing about feeding him

yeah i give her dry food and raw meat aswell

tryed liver upset his tummy
tripe no chance
meaty bones all the time
fresh pigs feet loves
lamb trimming (his favourite)
t bone steaks (in his dreams lol)

bigwazza wrote:tryed liver upset his tummy

Ought to have at least some offal - have you tried hearts? Mine won't eat liver of any sort.

might dig some out of the ex bodys iv got stuffed in the frezzers lol

but on a more serious note what kind do you use are they all the same grade

bigwazza wrote:might dig some out of the ex bodys iv got stuffed in the frezzers lol

As long as it isn't pork!

I use either ox heart or lambs hearts (more expensive). If I can get them I use chicken hearts as a treat, but you need a lot of them!

why not pigs heart

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bigwazza wrote:why not pigs heart

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No reason, I was just hinting that your ex might've been a pig.................

Some people don't like to feed pork to dogs, doesn't bother me cause it's an old wive's tale that it'll give them worms.

Another old wive's tale is that if you feed raw meat to a dog it'll get maggots in the brain, or will develop a taste for blood & become a killer.

ye some have been pigs lol
and there some stupid old wifes tales

iv tryed pigs feet and he loves them

No. He would rather starve.
We had a head-to-head a while ago, where he got raw every meal for two days. He ate nothing.
On Orijen now, which is excellent for him.

Never considered it as once over though it would make her a bloodthirsty devil dog, then came round a bit into sensible zone and realised it's not so, then saw some of Ella's pics of the boys eating pigs heads and (no offence Ella )

Working dog wrote:No. He would rather starve.
We had a head-to-head a while ago, where he got raw every meal for two days. He ate nothing.
On Orijen now, which is excellent for him.

Not every dog will eat raw, and not every human wants to feed it. I think feeding dogs is a very personal thing & as long as you feed the best you can afford then that's good!

i said now and then cause i give her butcher bones and scraps and shes had a few raw chickens and mice!

I don't feed raw but apart from having a very small freezer, I'm a bit weird about raw meat lol. When I was pregnant the smell of raw meat made me sick and I still can't stand it, I've never been able to eat chicken legs or wings. See, weird

I feed raw and the longer I do the less commercially-produced dog food makes sense to me.

I bag up the raw food I buy from a local wholesale butcher into "meal size" portions and R eats it for the most part frozen. Sometimes I will leave it overnight to thaw out.

I can understand it's not for everyone.

I like the fact that I can tell how he does on different types of food - i.e. chicken makes him a bit itchy if fed too much. Too much pork makes him gassy.

He wasn't into it immediately. It was a question of making it a game - some slightly gross tug-of-war scenarios with frozen chicken wings got him into the swing of things. He doesn't like raw liver so I microwave that or turn it into treats by baking it.

I try to vary the diet as much as possible. Butchers also give me spare bones and he gets left overs from my food. I like the fact there is less waste and he is eating things that would otherwise be chucked out.

I supplement meat bones and offal with raw eggs and a bit of coconut oil. And, as I said, scraps.

He is now EXTREMELY enthusiastic about his food. As it takes a bit longer to eat, he can't wolf it all down in one go. I think it makes it an adventure for him. I also have random notions that I want him to be able to survive in the wild if it ever came to it... back to nature kind of thoughts that only naive people (me) who live in the middle of the city ever entertain seriously

I changed to raw a few months ago and Daisy is so enthusiastic about her food now   

always have fed raw and would never feed anything else!