Dogs - Raw Diet Update

[Tsunami]

Originally Posted by Kaneman

No.

Cool I am going to give Puggy a raw egg now. Can you give them one a day?

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by Tsunami

Cool I am going to give Puggy a raw egg now. Can you give them one a day?

Sure, but if he's not used to it its likely to agitate his stomach the first couple of times. Raw white chicken meat might be a safer bet at first.

[101lifts2]

Originally Posted by Tsunami

Cool I am going to give Puggy a raw egg now. Can you give them one a day?

I've been eating eggs raw for over a year now...never got sick from it. Just make sure the egg doesn't smell or bloody after you crack it open (had 2 of those..almost threw them in the blender too..lol).

[azoomm]

Hey Josh... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwyiIBCwAxc

Thanks man. Really.

I completely forgot I had that old video. Sadie is camera shy, and I'm surprised I even got that many runs out of her on the first video. The second one, I have now figured out if I put the camera at my waist and move my body with the camera she doesn't notice I have one.

[Adeptus_Minor]

Wow, Moira... I don't think Sadie was that energetic even when I first met you guys. That's freaking fantastic!

I've started my girl on a high quality natural kibble for an easy transition from shelter food. But as that bag dwindles, I'm going to get her onto raw food.
She's going to look and feel amazing.

[Kaneman]

Oh my God! That's so awesome!!! She's jumpin like 4 ft in the air. Amazing!

[thirdgenlxi]

Well... I've been doing alot of research on this lately as well, and decided to get Piggy off of the "poison" (as most referred to kibble as, lol), and get her headed in the right direction to a long healthy life. I always knew kibble foods weren't the greatest for dogs, but didn't know just how bad until I started digging a little deeper... YIKES!!

So today (sun), was Piggys first day on her new RAW meaty bones diet! As recommended by everything I've read, I started out very simple: plain chicken quarters. Everyone said don't add variety just yet, just pick one meat and stick with it for a couple weeks and let the dogs body get used to eating and digesting "real" food, then start adding variety, organs, etc.

I got her a 16" pizza pan too to eat off of, so there's room for her to pick stuff apart without getting it all over the kitchen floor.



Small doses to start off with until I know everything is going well. I fasted her yesterday to let everything else work it's way through first



At first she looked a little confused, like "ummm what do I do with this??" LOL. She kept looking up at me, then back down at the chicken, then up at me again, then she just started licking it, hahah



After a few minutes though, she was going to town on it. I watched her the whole time to make sure she didn't try and gulp it (she usually tends to eat pretty fast cuz of the other dogs always coming around her food bowl). But she did great... took her time and chewed everything, crunched all the bones, and all was good. Took her probably 15 mins to finish both pieces. She didn't leave so much as a crumb behind, hahah




She has hip dysplasia and very dry itchy skin in the winter time, and from what I've read, this should help out with both of those. She had a yeast infection in her right ear recently too, but that seemed to be just a one time thing and hasn't happened before that or since. A little maximum strength Vagisil took care of it no prob anyways, lol

So, we'll see how it goes! I'm cutting her feeding down to 1 meal per day and will watch her weight carefully. Hopefully it goes well! Never heard a single bad thing about a raw diet though

[thirdgenlxi]

Well... day one was excellent success! No vomiting, no hershey squirts.... no abnormal effects at all!

Day 2 has also gone very well...

She always gives me the most pathetic, "but dad, it's torture!! Can't you see I'm dying here??", look you've ever seen, lol. Tail wagging at full speed the whole time, heh. But she knows that she's gotta sit there until I say "go eat", and she does very well with that!



Then she had to give it the sniff test


And then the lick test


Bah! F**k it... I'm eating


I gave her a little more tonight (3 quarters) since it seemed to sit well yesterday. So far so good! I'll give it a couple weeks and then start adding other stuff. I'm glad to hear so many great success stories feeding this way!

[azoomm]

Luck man!! Really!

Sadie still has signs of being an older dog - she still drags her back feet after the walk up to the park to catch the ball. But, as you can see, she has her vertical back - the first part of the video wasn't even as bad as it got... I just couldn't video her falling down.

She is completely on the mend though - and the ONLY major change we did was food. She takes no suppliments and doesn't need her teeth cleaned or scaled. The funny part was - the vet didn't believe she was the same dog.

[azoomm]

Still going really well on the Raw diet. Converting more and more people - my daughter brought Sadie to the park by our house for an after school thing, and fed her chicken at the park. She got yelled at by "grown ups" for feed her dog chicken bones. All these adults are now looking for more information from me.

My vet is looking at more information as well. Here's the start of a diet revolution.

Thanks Josh.