I've been reading this thread for awhile now and have turned to the prey diet. I've been feeding our Germ. Shep. mix, Germ. Short. mix, and Silky/Yorkie raw food for ove the last week. I first started to do this cause our Short. has extremely bad allergies. He will scratch and eat his paws and break out if he has anything wheat. He also smells so bad that he can not be in the house. He has had chronic ear problems (yeast) and is on Zymox permanently to keep them at bay, but still will get them. I'm tired of the vet bills and I'm sure he's extremely miserable. For awhile I caught myself thinking he'd be better off, or at least more comfortable, dead! To tell you the truth, since the big dogs are always outside I'm not going to have the advantage of seeing all the benefits this diet has to offer. But I'm really paying attention to Dozer to see if his allergies clear up. Since he's 6 and the allergies are really bad i'm wondering how long it will take to see these benefits. And while he's detoxing, what things am I supposed to be looking for?
Of course all the dogs love the food and will eat everything I've served them so there aren't any issues there. My husband is a hunter and for the first time I actually want him to go our and shoot something!
I'm mad cause he got an elk and 2 deer this past fall and he cleans them in the field leaving all the bones, legs, etc there while it could have all been free food!!!!
I was telling my mom about this new diet and she freaked out! I told her I wasn't concerned about bacteria and such, but she brought up parasites from the meat. I hadn't noticed this talked about in this thread; maybe it has been but I don't want to go through 20+ pages to find it!
So, does anyone have info on the parasite stuff? Sorry if it's being redundant!
This thread is awesome!!!