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lara2913 · 11-15-2007, 01:01 AM

Your not alone, I think becoming a poop inspector is part of feeding raw lol.

Lamb is the favorite meat of my furkids, they can't get enough of it.

JCarlson2004 · 11-16-2007, 07:59 AM

Yesterday morning and last night the babies had SEVERE diarrhea. I was shocked!!

Not only was it severe but it was SO MUCH!! It was all over my house. This morning this was a little bit of diarrhea and some solid poop.

Is this normal?

I've never seen diarrhea like that before in my life. So weird.

lara2913 · 11-16-2007, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by JCarlson2004

Yesterday morning and last night the babies had SEVERE diarrhea. I was shocked!!

Not only was it severe but it was SO MUCH!! It was all over my house. This morning this was a little bit of diarrhea and some solid poop.

Is this normal?

I've never seen diarrhea like that before in my life. So weird.

What had they eaten in the 12 hours before the diarrhea?

JCarlson2004 · 11-16-2007, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by lara2913

What had they eaten in the 12 hours before the diarrhea?

Ground beef. I'm only doing beef this week because it's their first week and I wanted to give them a chance to get use to raw. This coming week I plan on mixing in lamb with their beef (like beef for breakfast and lamb for dinner, etc.).

I also noticed that they seem to be regulating themselves and not eating uncontrollably. Like last night they really weren't too hungry but this morning they ate up a storm. They are no longer gorging themselves because they realize that this good food is here to stay.

lara2913 · 11-16-2007, 08:10 AM

Hmmm well I mean its hard to say what could have caused the dirrea then. Bad batch of beef perhaps, your freezing it for at least 48 hours before thawing and feeding right? Have you been adding different supplements? Sometimes over doing sups can unbalance the raw and cause diarrea. Although I would urge you to add bone, plain ground meat just isn't enough as there is no calcium. Also some time this week you want to give some organ meat, just a tiny bit, but they do need it.

Wylie's Mom · 11-16-2007, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by JCarlson2004

Ground beef. I'm only doing beef this week because it's their first week and I wanted to give them a chance to get use to raw. This coming week I plan on mixing in lamb with their beef (like beef for breakfast and lamb for dinner, etc.).

I've heard here and there that starting off on beef can often be a bit much for some dogs. I started w/ venison, and added lamb for Marcel (bc he doesn't like venison or rabbit - little stinker). I haven't seen one bit of bad stools, amazingly.

Maybe try another meat for awhile and give some canned pumpkin too?

Wylie's Mom · 11-16-2007, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by lara2913

your freezing it for at least 48 hours before thawing and feeding right?

Not that it matters for me yet as I'm using NV - but do you freeze first for EVERY type of raw meat/bone or just specific types?

lara2913 · 11-16-2007, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

Not that it matters for me yet as I'm using NV - but do you freeze first for EVERY type of raw meat/bone or just specific types?

Not all raw feeders freeze everything but I do generally yeah, better to be safe than sorry where neospora is concerned. Although any how I have to as I only usually shop for them every 3 months, get all stocked up, they have their own freezer

abbie's mom · 11-16-2007, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by JCarlson2004

Ground beef. I'm only doing beef this week because it's their first week and I wanted to give them a chance to get use to raw.

Was it lean ground? If the fat content was high, that would probably do it. Plus, as lara suggests: they really need bone, as well.

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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom

I've heard here and there that starting off on beef can often be a bit much for some dogs.

True. Mine still can't handle but so much beef.

Tissy · 11-16-2007, 04:05 PM

Tonight mom gave me something she called a gizzard...funny name but man oh man did I like it. It was nice and chewy! Mom even held it for me (I have trained her well) and got really excited cause I was really working my jaw teeth. Then she tried giving me this scary looking thing that was almost as big as me

I think it was a turkey butt! Oh, mom just told me it was the neck....I knew it was one end of the turkey. Anyway, I did not want anything to do with that thing. So then I got to try a heart....I licked it a little but it was no gizzard.

YAY for the good stuff!

lara2913 · 11-17-2007, 01:46 AM

LOL, yummy Delilah those gizzards are tasty, my mummy gives me them too, those turkey necks are pretty hard to chew but once you start to chow down they get really yummy, wub Indy

abbie's mom · 11-17-2007, 04:02 AM

Dewiwah and Indy,

I wub dose gizzards, too. Sometimes mom gives me dis weelly slimy stuff she calls wibber. She says I need it; but <ick!> I don't wike it! Wast nite she came home wiff some gween twipe and chickie feets. mmmm...mmmm..mmm....I was begging before she could even get dem out of the packages! She kept making the "eewwww" and "icky" sounds when cutting de twipe into medallion size pieces. I wonder why? I tink it smells dewine, but Mozart wan fwom de woom. He does not wike it!

lara2913 · 11-17-2007, 08:28 AM

Mmmmm gween tripe, my favorite, sometimes I gwab a mouthful and go and drop it on mummy's lap, den she jumps up and squeals, I don't know why I thought she would weally lub it, it tastes yummy to me! Today mummy was laughing at me becoz I jumped up onto the counter to gwab a whole turkey wing that was thawing for dinner, mummy took it off me, I was so upset I weally wanted to eat it NOW

Wub Malachi

abbie's mom · 11-17-2007, 11:22 AM

Malachi,

You too funny! My oh, myyyyyyy...if I gived my mommy gween twipe, she'd pwobabwy faint dead away! I just can't figure why our humans don't appweshate de "good stuffs". Dey jus' don't know what they is missing.

Well, today Mo and I got chickie feets (Yaaaaaay!

), and wibber (gack

). We did not eat it!

wuv,

Abigail

7TimesBlessed · 11-17-2007, 06:25 PM

.............we had gizzards and hearts also today!!!....cut them up and used them as training treats but all the kids got them...........this is a great time of year for that stuff cause w Thanksgiving coming they are a plenty!!!!..........(still haven't been able to get chicky feet tho.......called a farm a few days ago and they do not sell them........the search continues..........hey, you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

11-15-2007, 01:01 AM	#226
lara2913 Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Posts: 1,920	Your not alone, I think becoming a poop inspector is part of feeding raw lol. Lamb is the favorite meat of my furkids, they can't get enough of it. __________________ Indy, Benjamin and Malachi There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face- Ben Williams

11-16-2007, 07:59 AM	#227
JCarlson2004 Mommy To 3 Poochies Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: New York Posts: 8,287	Yesterday morning and last night the babies had SEVERE diarrhea. I was shocked!! Not only was it severe but it was SO MUCH!! It was all over my house. This morning this was a little bit of diarrhea and some solid poop. Is this normal? I've never seen diarrhea like that before in my life. So weird. __________________ Mommy Loves Codie, Tia & Baby Cali RIP My Precious Katie - I Love You

11-16-2007, 08:10 AM	#230
lara2913 Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Posts: 1,920	Hmmm well I mean its hard to say what could have caused the dirrea then. Bad batch of beef perhaps, your freezing it for at least 48 hours before thawing and feeding right? Have you been adding different supplements? Sometimes over doing sups can unbalance the raw and cause diarrea. Although I would urge you to add bone, plain ground meat just isn't enough as there is no calcium. Also some time this week you want to give some organ meat, just a tiny bit, but they do need it. __________________ Indy, Benjamin and Malachi There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face- Ben Williams

11-16-2007, 04:05 PM	#235
Tissy YT Addict Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Starkville, Mississippi Posts: 387	Tonight mom gave me something she called a gizzard...funny name but man oh man did I like it. It was nice and chewy! Mom even held it for me (I have trained her well) and got really excited cause I was really working my jaw teeth. Then she tried giving me this scary looking thing that was almost as big as me I think it was a turkey butt! Oh, mom just told me it was the neck....I knew it was one end of the turkey. Anyway, I did not want anything to do with that thing. So then I got to try a heart....I licked it a little but it was no gizzard. YAY for the good stuff! __________________ Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

11-17-2007, 01:46 AM	#236
lara2913 Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Posts: 1,920	LOL, yummy Delilah those gizzards are tasty, my mummy gives me them too, those turkey necks are pretty hard to chew but once you start to chow down they get really yummy, wub Indy __________________ Indy, Benjamin and Malachi There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face- Ben Williams

11-17-2007, 04:02 AM	#237
abbie's mom Lovin' 2 Girls Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: VA Posts: 3,593 Blog Entries: 4	Dewiwah and Indy, I wub dose gizzards, too. Sometimes mom gives me dis weelly slimy stuff she calls wibber. She says I need it; but <ick!> I don't wike it! Wast nite she came home wiff some gween twipe and chickie feets. mmmm...mmmm..mmm....I was begging before she could even get dem out of the packages! She kept making the "eewwww" and "icky" sounds when cutting de twipe into medallion size pieces. I wonder why? I tink it smells dewine, but Mozart wan fwom de woom. He does not wike it! __________________ Ask Abi

11-17-2007, 08:28 AM	#238
lara2913 Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Posts: 1,920	Mmmmm gween tripe, my favorite, sometimes I gwab a mouthful and go and drop it on mummy's lap, den she jumps up and squeals, I don't know why I thought she would weally lub it, it tastes yummy to me! Today mummy was laughing at me becoz I jumped up onto the counter to gwab a whole turkey wing that was thawing for dinner, mummy took it off me, I was so upset I weally wanted to eat it NOW Wub Malachi __________________ Indy, Benjamin and Malachi There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face- Ben Williams Last edited by lara2913; 11-17-2007 at 08:31 AM.

11-17-2007, 11:22 AM	#239
abbie's mom Lovin' 2 Girls Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: VA Posts: 3,593 Blog Entries: 4	Malachi, You too funny! My oh, myyyyyyy...if I gived my mommy gween twipe, she'd pwobabwy faint dead away! I just can't figure why our humans don't appweshate de "good stuffs". Dey jus' don't know what they is missing. Well, today Mo and I got chickie feets (Yaaaaaay! ), and wibber (gack ). We did not eat it! wuv, Abigail

11-17-2007, 06:25 PM	#240
7TimesBlessed YT Addict Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 311	.............we had gizzards and hearts also today!!!....cut them up and used them as training treats but all the kids got them...........this is a great time of year for that stuff cause w Thanksgiving coming they are a plenty!!!!..........(still haven't been able to get chicky feet tho.......called a farm a few days ago and they do not sell them........the search continues..........hey, you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!