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Originally Posted by culantro  My dog is 19 weeks and he is being eating science diet,2 spoons of can plus a handfull of kibbles 2 times day at 7 am and 7pm. I decide to try giving him one thigh bone I peeled the meat off while cooking chicken. It took him 20 minutes to eat half and then he just left it there. After a while he came back and almost finished.
here are my questions:
1. this morning he threw up a transparent liquid. I don't know if I should continue with the raw diet.
2. if I feed him raw chicken most of the time, do I have to give him a fish or beef every week? how often per week? fish is very expensive in publix (the pervasive supermarket in florida)
3. Can I give him the raw food frozen or should I microwave it?
4. should I feed him twice a day? in the morning before going to work and in the afternoon after I come back?
Although the Jane Anderson websites have a lot of information, I'm having problems creating a recipe that I can mix once, freeze it and then give my dog portions of it regularly.
Thanks in advanced. |
I've been feeding a prey model raw diet for about a year and a half now....
lets see if I can help at all...
on your first question - was it just a bit of bile - liquidy a little yellowish? Just a little? That wouldn't concern me, my dog has done it on kibble and also on raw. Sometimes I think when she didn't eat enough the night before, she will spit up a little bile.
2. I feed mostly chicken with other things thrown in. Sometimes pork, sometimes beef, sometimes turkey, sometimes when I get really lucky they get venison (I've had this donated) My dogs so far in a year and a half have had chicken, turkey, venison, beef, pork, beaver, elk, rabbit and fish. Although I will say that my yorkie hates fish. Will not eat it, no way no how. I do add salmon oil to her food most days so I don't feel it's necessary to worry about the fish if she doesn't like it.
3. Don't microwave it but you could give it slightly frozen. Not frozen solid but not completely thawed either. My Zoe will only eat liver that way. And remember they are supposed to get 10% organs of which about 1/2 of that should be liver. 10% should be bone and the rest should be meat. Heart and gizzards count as meat not organ.
4. I think I would try to come home at lunchtime and give him a bite to eat. I think he's a little young to be only eating twice a day. Can you work out coming home for just a couple months until he is 6 months old?
As for recipes... just think whole food. A chicken wing with maybe a gizzard, a 1/2 chicken breast, sometimes I get a pork roast and cut off larger portions. Remember to add fish or salmon oil and a little thumbnail piece of liver. I try to add some other organ (kidney usually) a few times a week. It really doesn't take a lot of planning. If you are putting a ton of thought into it, you are probably over thinking things. But I was once a beginner myself so I know how that is!
