Originally Posted by FlyingNimbus  Bison??? The hell do you even get that from? xD A regular supermarket does not carry bison from what I can tell... Bison is essentially beef isn't it? Bison to my understanding are essentially cow... Not same species and all but yeah...
Chicken, turkey is easy to do. Some fish-- would have to be freshwater-- strictly freshwater. Salt water fish or anything from the sea to be blunt carries large trace amount of mercury... pollution, plethora of chemicals, and heavy metals.. it may not be affecting the fish because they got used to it but if it certainly affects us- more so a smaller animal.
Btw, the bigger/older the fish the more trace metals. pollution, etc is concentrated in it...
It's why there's warning of only eating sea food once a week if anything.
I guess farm raised tilapia would be good. When I had turtles I used to feed them that, as it was clean, and I ended up doing research on them. Tilapia is a really healthy fish full of nutrients and is very lean unlike say a catfish, and certain other fish...
Salmon would be good, but if I am correct salmon are born in freshwater and travel through estuaries(probably) right into the sea where they live most of their lives in. That being said, from their time in the sea they would have considerable amounts of junk in them...
Lamb, I am not sure I've seen that in the grocery store but to be honest I don't eat lamb(if ever) so I probably missed that.
For now all I can think of is Chicken, turkey, pork, farm raised tilapia, carrots, vegetables like peas(peas are really really good for digestion), maybe berries(antioxidants), kale is a good dark leafy green. not sure if they can eat it but idk rabbits, reptiles, fish, people can eat it mostlikely dogs have no issue with that?
Boiled liver would be good once a week I would assume. The liver is where a lot of the fats, proteins, vitamin and minerals is supposed to be stored which is good for the body and mind.
Not sure what additives you add to your dogs' meals but all I can think about is adding small doses of vitamin and mineral supplements to the diet, but really small doses. So it doesn't become too much and only every other day if anything... If I can figure out the proper dosage that would help a lot. Because when you cook foods- boiled or otherwise nutrients are -always- lost. So adding some back would help improve it's quality of life I would think.
It's more of the messiness of the food I have to figure out how to deal with.
The food if boiled would have to be drained out and dried up enough so the stool doesn't become soo runny... Dont like the idea of runny stool...
If you feed fruits, what kinds do you feed? whenever we get bananas I'd eat most of it and leave the tips to them (like 2-3 inches of banana). I hate strawberries and apples so I don't bother buying them to share... Plus their seeds are toxic(apples)
I think I heard avocado is toxic to them(sad really I love avocado). Not sure if garlic too or something like that. Although Im pretty sure ive seen my dog eating something with garlic and it being fine. Or eating something its not supposed to and it being fine(in small quantities) like a piece of cheese that fell to the floor(she has a habit of jumping at us when we're eating so if we're eating something with loose or chopped cheese a bit of it could fall to the floor..
Anyways asides from this, not really sure what else would be needed. |