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Originally Posted by JennyLeroux  I have really been wanting to try the raw diet. I currently feed my dogs Wellness but I like to go as natural as possible for my dogs so I gave it a try. I was a little leery of giving the dogs bones. I just didn't want to take any chances. I gave them some ground beef the first night. They loved it and I couldn't believe how quick their stool slowed down. They process the Wellness so quick I feel like all I do is pick up their stool. So I went back to the store and got some more ground beef the second day. My Biewer is more sensitive to food and food changes but she did fine. However, my Yorkie on the second day immediatly got extremely bloated and it gave her diarrhea really bad which even turned bloody. I am not sure what I did wrong and although I would love to continue it there is no way that I can take a chance on it. |
I'm not at all surprised at your Yorkie's reaction. But this is not a problem with the raw diet itself but a case of "operator error". You should not have started with beef to begin with and certainly not ground beef. It has a ton of fat mixed in there and absolutely no bone. If your poor yorkie had not had that reaction, I would have been surprised. The best way to start is with a piece of bone in chicken breast and remove the skin or visible fat. Use a fork to score it. You might want to cut the breast in 1/2 - at least that's what I do. Feed the chicken breast for a good 10 days to give their bodies a chance to adjust and then add small amounts of other meats bit by bit. I'm surprised your biewer didn't have problems as well but I will say I used to have a collie who had extreme sensitivity and that went away for the most part when I switched to raw - unless I over did liver or a new meat.