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Originally Posted by gontygirl

It's probably WAY cheaper to feed the way you do... My worry is that my boy can't have large pieces of anything (like the bone) cus if I give him even a carrot he wildly eats it so fast he practically swallows it WHOLE and then throws up. I've had to make his food like oatmeal so he doesn't choke. I don't know if you can process bones like that...maybe that little nip thing on a chicken wing...but doesn't he have to have all different kinds of bones? I also heard that if you buy your raw meat at the grocery store...because it's so handled by butchers that salmonella or other toxins can form on the surface..which is why I have been told to boil raw meat for a few seconds (to kill surface bacteria). I don't know what is true and what isn't at this point..so much info going around...

Zeus is a swallower too. He was starved for a while and still tries to find any food he can get. But if you give him a larger piece of bone (like chicken neck or 1/2 a quail body) he sits and chews it. You CANNOT cut up the bones to be small because of the chances of choking.

Salmonella is on everything and is everywhere. It's on the grocery carts you use. You just have to be careful. And, no, you cannot boil the meat otherwise it defeats the purpose. When you boil meat it also kills off the essential nutrients. Animal tummies are meant to digest raw meat. Kibble wasn't invented until 1864. It takes a lot more than 150 years of evolution to change a digestive tract. Now, I am NOT saying that all dogs can digest salmonella...just that they can tolerate more than we can so the danger isn't AS much.

Just make sure you know whom you are buying from.