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08-06-2010, 02:59 PM | #1 |
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| There's nothing more that my two love, well 3 love more then raw meat!! I have been doing it occasionally but honestly it seems they have all lost interest in kibble. I used to leave out a bowl full and it would always be gone. Lately they are not interested AT ALL in kibble. It's like a chore for them to eat. I think we are just going to switch to raw only. It makes them SO happy to get raw that I feel I am being mean not just switching to fully raw. Today I gave them some chicken gizzards and a winglet each and Zach and Lola nearly swallowed it whole if it would of fit. lol When they see me go into the freezer and get meat out they all go wild. Zach starts doing his pretty spines and tail waggin and Lola starts jumping up and barking at me. Before when I did the NV raw, Lola hardly ever itched and was so happy and content. I don't want to do pre made raw because she wasn't as into it as REAL raw. Any tips will be greatly appreciated to get my babies going! |
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08-06-2010, 08:05 PM | #2 |
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| My babies all love raw too!! My 3 lb. chihuahua used to be a picky eater and now she eats like a little lion. My only advice is that you transition it over by feeding more raw each day and less kibble and start with just chicken and then go on to other proteins that have more fat. I just switched cold turkey and all of mine had diarrhea for days, I was told that it was normal and they were detoxing, which might be true but dealing with 5 dogs with diarrhea for days was not fun!! Anyway, good luck.
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08-06-2010, 08:32 PM | #3 |
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| I am curious as I have NO experience with raw nor have I really read up on it at all. Is it safe? Can they get salmonella from it? How are they not getting ill?
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08-07-2010, 06:00 AM | #4 | |
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However, that being said, a dogs anatomy and physiology is uniquely designed for this job of eating raw meats. Their saliva carries a distinctive enzyme called lysozyme whose job as a antibacterial helps in the fight against the bad bacteria contained in raw meat. A canine's GI system, specifically the stomach has an extremely harsh acidic environment. This in itself diminishes the ability of the bad bacteria to colonize, which is what promotes infection. Our pups GI tract is also short which promotes fast excrement of whatever is being digested. Your pup is most likely to excrete Salmonella than to acquire an infection from it. So their feces will be the thing that has the bacteria in it and why it is so important for owners to properly dispose of feces. Andromeda has Lymes, so I am careful in making sure that I do not feed raw chicken to her as raw chicken usually is the culprit in containing significant amounts of Salmonella . She has done fine on raw and rarely eats kibble. Plus the BIG issue for me is that once meat has been cooked, its chemical composition is changed. It is harder for our pups, and for us for that matter, to digest the "knots" of amino acids that cooking facilitates. When proteins like meat are raw, their amino acids are long chains which are easily accessible by our digestive tracts, both humans and dogs. That means that the meats nutrients are easily accessible, and the pup or human can digest more of them than when the amino acids are knotted. Most people do not know that the kibble that they feed their pup has been noted to carry salmonella as well, that is why most feeding labels tell you to wash your hands after feeding; as not to acquire the bacteria. Hope this helps...... | |
08-07-2010, 06:48 AM | #5 | |
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Great info that's so much!! I usually let mine have their raw outside. They don't like to eat "together" they are all protective of their yummies lol | |
08-07-2010, 10:57 AM | #6 | |
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And thanks, very helpful post.
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