 Barked: Fri Apr 27, '07 11:11am PST |
 | |  | | Hi,
Others may know alot more about feeding raw then i do.
How much when where and why,diet wise.
But i Just want to put in my two cents! Just what i know about what ive read,and my own experiences.
This comes from reading vet medical books and testing some theorys of my own. Not recomending or condeming the raw diet. It was at one time before the advent of fire,what even another versions of humans ate!!
But the domesticating of the dog has made our babys stomach weak lacking the stomach acids and bacterias to digest certain things.
If i was to go raw id start with a meat that had a less dense bone. One that crubles under presure instead of splinters.
To check the denseness of a bone pretend your a dog and a pair of pliers,your teeth. Do the home work. Bones that crack into pieces and can be crushed,are less dense. Bone that crack and splinter. Can get lodged in your babies digestive track.That is painful.
After a dog has been on a raw diet for a while its stomach acids and bacterias replenished it may well digest even splinters of bone as they once did in the wild. I do not know.
I know some bones on a carcuss a wild dog would not eat.
The idea that wild dogs did not eat any vegitation at all is so wrong.
Wolves and other wild dogs ate fruits in season. Not large quanitys but they did as like a snack between meals.
They even ate grubs and roots. They were very intelligent and resourceful at finding a well balanced wild K-9 dinner.
If i were to do a raw diet,i would leave chicken and pork to be the last items to introduce to my dogs diet.Or i might never give it.Just to be on the safe side.
Not sure how long it may take for those acids and bacterias to build up,but id give it some time before giving chicken mainly bones and pork meat or bone.For the reasons i mentioned above i know chicken bones splinter and pork can carry a illness the same one humans can catch from raw pork.
Most wild dogs avoided chicken houses if they could take down a dear or other rodent type creature,or rabbit.
The dogs frequenting peoples chicken coups are not 'wild dogs' they are those domesticated dogs someone dumped or abandoned!!
Wild dogs rarley hunted fowl,they hunted ground dwelling creature.
If your new to raw. And just thinking about it. You may not know these things.And for your babies health you need all the info you can get and several opinions.
Most people here they recomend starting out with chicken?
I do not know why?
Except that it is cheapest meat on the market,most times.
And the meat may be easier to digest. I know cooked chicken is.
Id start my dog out on a good red meat,or a deer or rabbit or other rodent.What they would have ate in the wild.
Also pups new to eating just weened cubs,which i think most of our 'newly weened off dogfood' babys are. Are much like a weened wolf pup stomach wise.
Wolf pups were not allowed the main carcus there mother would tear choice pieces for them or give them inurds. In early days of weaning she would chew it first and regurgitate it for them!!!
If anyone knows anything please post so those in the group that want to consider raw know the other opinions and ideas of other folk also.
I know a good bit about dogs and a few other things health and habit wise.
But not how where,why,and what of raw feeding as an option It can most likely be the best diet if done right.
A definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore#Characteristics_ of_carnivoresEdited by author Sat Apr 5, '08 6:35am PST
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