Raw feeders: gross-out question

[ruthcatrin]

I'm not Ruth but I do feel obliged to answer your post. I'm sure Ruth will too.

I get that you feel you are being attacked. However, your post was poorly written and at first glance most of us took from it that you could feed a diet of nothing but chicken quarters. Sorry, that just is not true. Just like your statement that pork is a white meat. When things are posted that are wrong, it needs to be corrected.

You say that no one is looking at this thread anymore. Wrong again! There have been over 500 views and someone was viewing it when I popped in. People come here for help and we should strive to give out correct information. I have been corrected on here before and I'm sure I will be again.

I have no response that would be tolerated by the mod's. His apparent inability to read his own posts or recall what he actually said simply confirms my opinion, the decent to personal attacks is just icing.....

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I have a 5 month old ddb, so far he shows very little interest in his kibble, he doesn't over eat or under eat, but I feel like he really doesn't enjoy his kibble (we use Premium Edge, lamb and rice). I'm considering the raw food diet, but would like some feed back from other owners who have been doing this for a while. When you made the transition, was there a significant change? Did it help your dogs overall health, or just improve their appetite? If you had health issues before the change, did switching to raw help those health issues?

I appreciate any and all feed back, I just want to give Kujo the healthiest shot at life.

I'd suggest starting a new thread as this one has been rather firmly tainted. However there are several of us here who feed raw and would be willing to help you put together a raw diet for your dog. We'll need his estimated, expected, adult weight, or the weights of his parents if thats easier, so we can help you figure amounts.

 

[ruthcatrin]

I have a 5 month old ddb, so far he shows very little interest in his kibble, he doesn't over eat or under eat, but I feel like he really doesn't enjoy his kibble (we use Premium Edge, lamb and rice). I'm considering the raw food diet, but would like some feed back from other owners who have been doing this for a while. When you made the transition, was there a significant change? Did it help your dogs overall health, or just improve their appetite? If you had health issues before the change, did switching to raw help those health issues?

I appreciate any and all feed back, I just want to give Kujo the healthiest shot at life.

I'd suggest starting a new thread as this one has been rather firmly tainted. However there are several of us here who feed raw and would be willing to help you put together a raw diet for your dog. We'll need his estimated, expected, adult weight, or the weights of his parents if thats easier, so we can help you figure amounts.

 

[DMikeM]

For Kujo
When I started just adding meats to my dogs daily meals I got so many compliments about coat and form of the dog. Also the gas and dog smell went away. My vets do comment on the teeth and ask what I use to clean I just tell them nature cleans the teeth for me. Allowing the dogs to chew and grind away on meaty bones and beef ribs is just plain healthier than rubbing the teeth with some commercial paste. Now the dogs eat mostly meats all RAW with very little kibble to suppliment them.

 

[DennasMom]

I'm going to move my raw feeding response for Kujo to the other post... but I have to add something to this one - cause I'm laughing so hard!!!

It could be that Bas was mis-understood, and does actually feed a balanced raw diet - based on chicken, but adding in what he called "bits"... i.e. organ meat.

Many rawfeeders aim for a "whole prey" model, such as Bas referred to... what a canine would survive on in the wild. Whole chickens (all innards, or "bits", included as well as feathers, heads and feet) would be whole prey... but a pretty lame, domesticated, prey. Not that feedlot cows are much better. But, that would be why we aim for variety on the grocery store rawfeeding menu, to cover some of the lack due to farming methods.

I'm reading waaaay inbetween the lines - 'cause that's not what Bas wrote... but I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt (simce I'm always full of doubts myself).

And... as I learned on another rawfeeding list... pigs and cows are mammals, which is defined as red meat. Poultry is considered white meat.
But if you google it, you get all sorts of different definitions for red vs white.

 

[ruthcatrin]

No he feeds kibble for the rest of the diet, which he didn't even imply in his original posts, apparently we were supposed to read his mind or something.

I have a HUGE problem with someone portraying a "balanced raw diet" as "chicken thighs, an occasional egg, and whatever scraps I get" cause there are people out there seriously lacking in common sense who'll take that as gospel and then not understand why their puppy is sick somewhere down the road.....

And they're only calling pork white meat cause people think white meat = healthy....