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Raw Food Diet > I am concerned about salmonella. Is this a problem for dogs?
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Kolbe
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 | | Barked: Fri Dec 11, '09 1:06pm PST | |  | |  | | Dogs have a few things going for them that make salmonella less of a risk factor for them. They have a lower (more acidic) stomach pH, and they have lysosyme in their saliva, but the other big thing is that they have a very short digestive tract. Humans have a longer digestive tract (to have more time to digest plant matter, etc) so there's much more opportunity for bacteria to hang around in a human's tract and make problems, such as making us ill. With dogs, their strong stomach acid does some of the work and then the short digestive tract pushes everything through more efficiently since it's tailored to process raw meat, therefore things don't sit around in a dog's GI for as long as they do in people. Think about all the other things dogs lick and eat that they don't get sick from -- dead animals, garbage, licking their own or other dogs' butts, etc. While they are not immune to illness (though the chances are very low... for example an immuno-compromised dog may have problems but an average healthy dog won't), they are a lot more equip to deal with such things than we are. Hope that makes sense. |  |  | |  |
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 » There has since been 5 posts. Last posting by K-10 Von Canein, Fri 5:41 pm
Food & Nutrition > Raw Meaty Bones
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Kolbe
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| | Barked: Fri Dec 11, '09 12:55pm PST | | | | | | Saya, I trained my dogs to eat on a towel (well, nowadays it's a plastic mat but, same idea). If their food starts to inch its way off the mat I say, "Towel!" and they pick it up and put it back on there. To teach that I just watched them eat and whenever they'd take it off the towel I'd pick it up and move it back on there again until they got that it needed to stay there the whole time. Some people feed in the dogs' crate also. | | | | |
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» There has since been 3 posts. Last posting by Sedona, Fri 2:24 pmRaw Food Diet > What do you think of chicken and turkey necks?
» There has since been 2 posts. Last posting by Lilith, Fri 10:02 amRaw Food Diet > do you hate kibble?
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Kolbe
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| | Barked: Fri Dec 11, '09 6:41am PST | | | | | | No, I don't really. I don't think it can ever really be compared to fresh whole foods though. I don't really care either way if my family/friends/whoever feeds kibble, it's just not something I would personally feed to my own dogs any longer. The super low moisture levels, processing etc. all personally bother me too much to comfortably feed anymore. | | | | |
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» There has since been 11 posts. Last posting by Brady (CGC), Fri 11:02 pmRaw Food Diet > A non controversial thread... Tell me why you LOVE raw!!
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Kolbe
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| | Barked: Fri Dec 11, '09 6:38am PST | | | | | | Kolbe
Kolbe used to get really, really bad environmental allergies in the spring and summer. Gross, oily skin, beet red paws, beet red stomach -- she was constantly licking, licking, licking her paws. Adding apple cider vinegar to her water helped a little but not as much improvement as I was looking for. I was tired of doping her up with Benadryl. Since the switch to raw I feel that her immune system is better equip, and she no longer gets red paws or belly at ALL during the summer months. While her skin is still not perfect, it is much, much less gross than it used to be. These were results I was never able to achieve on processed foods.
Teeth were also a big improvement, as well as more even-keel energy and satisfaction from laying down and working on a meal instead of simply inhaling it.
Guster
Guster had chronic yeast infections in his ear. They always stunk, he cried whenever you put your hand near his ears, and I cleaned them out approximately every 2 days. I was at the vet very frequently for meds and cleaners. Did I mention the smell? Yeah.. you could smell it from about 5 feet away. After I switched him to raw... poof... all ear problems gone, nada. I can't remember the last time I cleaned them now. Coat quality also improved by a lot, as well as teeth. Mental satisfaction from bone chewing and working jaw muscles also helps his "I can never relax" nature a little.
Their water intake also drastically reduced due to the much more moisture-rich food. | | | | |
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» There has since been 14 posts. Last posting by The Hounds of Bassetville +2, Fri 8:04 pm
Raw Food Diet > My Dog Gulps Her Food. Should I Feed Ground?
» There has since been 0 posts. Last posting by Kolbe, Fri 6:30 amRaw Food Diet > Dogs = Carnivore...Humans = Herbivore
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Kolbe
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| | Barked: Fri Dec 11, '09 6:25am PST | | | | | | I don't understand why this thread was even posted here... this site is DOGSTER not Humanster and we are in the RAW FOOD DIET forum, for DOGS. This is completely off-topic and was made just to stir replies, which it did. I'm tired of these random people joining just to post nonsense and then make a big mess of the forum. As you'll notice they haven't posted anywhere else in the entire Dogster forums. Obviously I know I didn't help by replying and therefore bumping this to the top but I think it best to just ignore these type of posts... once you stop replying they get bored and go away and the thread sinks into oblivion where it belongs. | | | | |
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» There has since been 14 posts. Last posting by Dogster HQ, Fri 11:57 amRaw Food Diet > What is "trim"?
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Kolbe
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| | Barked: Thu Dec 10, '09 12:15pm PST | | | | | | I am not sure... I ordered a 60lb box of pork trim once, it was very lean and VERY good looking meat (I thought about eating some but didn't, hehe) and to me it looked like it all came from the same area of the pig. I don't know if the definition varies depending on the source you get it from or what. | | | | |
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» There has since been 3 posts. Last posting by Tucker, CGC, TDI, Thu 1:06 pmBehavior & Training > how do you train without getting fat
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Kolbe
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| | Barked: Thu Dec 10, '09 12:07pm PST | | | | | | I clicker train so there are a lot of treats going on when first shaping a behavior, less so when I'm working on refining something and upping the ante a little. Even so.... it doesn't end up being that much at all. The sizes of the treats are so miniscule. Sometimes I use "junk" treats such as Beggin Strips when I'm teaching something that I think they'll get frustrated with/won't "get" right away, and Beggin Strips are REALLY high value to my dogs, even though they are so junky. What can I say, I eat potato chips now and then but my overall diet is really healthy, the dogs eat raw so occasionally I'll give em some junk if it's motivating.  I take 2 Beggin Strips, they are about 4 inches long? and break them up into itty, bitty, bitty pieces -- those 2 strips end up lasting an entire 20 minute session. I usually don't need to decrease their dinner portion. When we were in classes and sessions were longer, like 1 hour, then I would sometimes decrease their dinner a little bit, but still not that much. Both of my dogs are very fit and lean. When doing clicker training, especially when learning something brand new and the dog is still in the "figuring it out" stages, rate of reinforcement is more important to the dog than the size of the treat. I basically want them to be able to just swallow it and have that be it, not get distracted consuming a treat, so the more tiny and soft the better. So I tend not to use things like veggies because they get obsessive about chewing and chewing and chewing them even if they don't need to. | | | | |
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» There has since been 27 posts. Last posting by Maggie & Porter, Fri 11:29 pm
Behavior & Training > Is there Hope for Ruby?
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Kolbe
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| | Barked: Thu Dec 10, '09 11:49am PST | | | | | | You need to build handler focus... some of that will come with time as you build a bond, and some will come with active training.
For loose leash walking, need some work on that... here's a few links.
click
and another
For the cat thing... it's prey drive. Rolling up a newspaper and yelling might lower the behavior for that moment (maybe) but doubtful that this is a technique that's going to have any type of effect long term. If you are afraid she'll scale the fence, be preventative and only take her out on a long lead right now and work on distracting her before she gets overly fixated... if she does scale the fence and manages to kill a cat, no one is going to be happy and it will be blamed on her breed and not the natural prey drive, not to mention a kitty will lose its life. Never underestimate a dog's abilities, that usually ends in tears.
There's always hope... I think people too often feel that "it's just how they are" and that training won't work... not true. All training, especially the prey drive stuff, takes a lot of practice and work, but that doesn't mean you can't do it. Good luck. | | | | |
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» There has since been 16 posts. Last posting by Chingu, Fri 9:11 pmPLEASE NOTE: Due to the rapid nature of forum postings, it's quite possible our calculation of the number of ensuing forum posts may be off by one or two or more at any given moment. |
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