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This is a dedicated place for all of your questions and answers about Raw Diets. There are also some really cool groups like "Raw Fed" on the topic you can join. This forum is for people who already know they like the raw diet or sincerely want to learn more. Please remember that you are receiving advice from peers and not professionals. If you have specific health-related questions about your dog's diet, please contact your vet!

  
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Sophie

Miss Bossy Fluff		 
 
Barked: Sun Feb 12, '12 10:08pm PST 
Check the sodium content of the chicken and make sure it isn't enhanced with sodium broth. Three of our dogs tolerate enhanced meat (although I never go out of my way to feed it) but the fourth, a senior with a sensitive stomach, gets diarrhea from it.

Also make sure to remove any attached organs (kidneys are often attached to quarters and people new to raw often miss this) and try trimming off the fat. Some dogs can't tolerate fat very well in the beginning.

I'd also weigh the food to make sure you're not over-feeding and consider cutting back a bit just to see what happens smile. Good luck!
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Moose

Moose is a- monster		 
 
Barked: Mon Feb 13, '12 5:46pm PST 
I think it depends on the dog(constipation before diarrhea) because Moose sometimes just gets a couple of hard ones before it turns into soup on the tail end. Other times he gets so constipated it crumbles (mostly when I give him buffalo bones to chew) Chicken in my experince is the worst culprit for rock hard and then soup all in the same poo. Just a suggestion since it sounded like you were only feeding him boney things like backs and legs.
I didn't think to give suggestion of digestive enzyme before reading other responses but Moose is on them too, because he has food bloated a couple times. Totally worth a try, I notice a difference when I don't give them.
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Phineas

go and go and go- and go and go- and... 		 
 
Barked: Sat Feb 18, '12 9:58am PST 
Phineas and I wanted to say a big "THANKS!" to everyone who replied to us last week.

I went ahead and ordered the Nutrigest probiotic (I liked that Dogaware recommended it, I really respect her opinion), and literally overnight his poops got better. His first meal on the probiotic was Tuesday and we've been on the up-and-up ever since. No "splarts" in over 10 days and now he's processing things like he should--he had a "bone dust poop" this AM so now I know I can back off on the bone and add more meat since things seem to be working normally.

Thank you guys!!! hailhamster dance
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Conker

OBEY ME!		 
 
Barked: Sat Feb 18, '12 4:08pm PST 
That's good to hear! I wish I'd found out sooner about the probiotic when I was switching Conker over. Now that I know, I try to tell other people to try one if they decide to switch over just in case their dog has trouble.
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