Pork is red meat, sales slogans don't count as research sorry
If your stated meal plan is how you feed your dog you are NOT feeding your dog anywhere near enough of a very wide selection of nutrients, DO SOME RESEARCH into what you're feeding your dog.
If you'd actually READ the posts you'd see that I was posting about getting EXTRAS, such as RABBIT HEADS. NOT prepackaged raw.
If you'd bothered to read the forum you'd find that we regularly help raw feeders find all sorts of alternatives to help keep the costs down, but what you're doing is bad for your dog, low cost or not. A PROPERLY BALANCED raw diet (not your randomly made up "cheap" one) is not the cheapest diet you can feed your dog, that is HONESTY.
I find your complete lack of concern over balancing your dog's raw diet worrisome, and the fact that you apparently are so lacking in concern that you'll attempt to sell this diet to others HIGHLY offensive. Seriously, thats the sort of raw diet that has resulted in scores of vets and vet nutritionists turned against raw.
I'm the troll... You're rediculous lady. You never even read my original post before blasting me. Chicken is the base of his diet and he gets all sorts of odds and ends that my butcher can provide my very inexpensively. He also can free graze on as much kibble as he wants (TOTW - bison).
You know what's highly offensive... Your pompous know-it-all attitude. You sound more like you should own a couple dozen cats instead of a dog. I haven't seen any posts regarding inexpensive raw feeding, but then again if you look at how many posts I've made, I've only just started to come to this forum. While you might have taken offense to my first post, it was not intended to be offensive (as I explained my motivs in another reply). While you might be an experienced user of this site, that makes you more of an expert on computers than Mastiffs. I Don't see how your dog's getting proper exercise with you sitting in front of that computer all day... 2800 posts in less than a year! Do you have a job or is this it?
Dogs are like kids. You and I can differ greatly in our opinion of how to raise them, but we're entitled to our opinion. No one can tell you how to raise your kids, right? I simply made the suggestion of getting meat from your butcher and not getting sucked into buying expensive, more exotic meats. It was a well intentioned piece of advice. In return you've been vicious toward me for no reason. Just because some dogs have allergies to chicken, doesn't mean they all do. As a matter of fact, most dogs tolerate chicken quite well when fed it from a young age and raw. Some dogs, like mine, can actually thrive off of this diet. Chicken is great protein for dogs because it is so lean. Red meats and darker white meats are higher in fat and being that large breed dogs are notorious for having hip/joint problems as they get older, I've decided that a lean diet is best for my dog. He does get the occasional piece fish/fish skin to supplement proper fatty acids. My dog gets a diet based on his needs and activity level that keep him lean, healthy, and happy.
If you have any further opinion please resist that overwhelming urge you have to reply and have the last word. I don't care. No one else is reading this thread and we obviously have differing opinions. The difference is that I can acknowledge that while unnecessary, your diet has its merits, but you just blindly slam me for mine.
