Friday, February 3, 2012
I'm not feeding raw (Purina's fine for me, thank you very much) but my YA-less friend is. Is this okay?
10 chicken wings
1 pound ground sirloin beef
2 large gizzards,
2 large beef hearts
1 Chicken Liver
1/2 can of pumpkin
1 can of baby carrots in water
Add salmon oil:
Up to 12-1/2 pounds: add one-half pump stroke
12-1/2 to 25 pounds: add one pump stroke
25 to 50 pounds: add two pump strokes
50 to 75 pounds: add three pump strokes
Over 75 pounds: add four pump strokes|||no it isnt a good diet. dogs like people need a balanced diet. they need carbs fibre protein like the rest of us. also dogs do not need a food that is mostly protien, their systems are not meant to handle it.
tell your friend to check with their vet for homemade raw diets and multivitamins for dogs, or better yet ask their vet to reccommend a commercial diet :)
also, if those chicken wings include bones that is just asking for trouble! such as a foriegn body or bowel perforation!|||There are no recipes in true raw feeding. There are only chunks of animal parts and organs. Nothing ground up, and no plant material.
I lost all confidence in the commercial dog food industry since the melamine contamination; I've switched my dog to her species' natural diet: raw meat, organs and bones.
I feed raw/prey model; my 50-pound shar-pei mix gets about 12oz a day, but when I have a gorge meal for her, like a turkey carcass that will take her 4-5 hours to eat, she won't be hungry or interested in food for 2-3 days. In general, a dog is fed 2-3% of the ideal body weight each day. A puppy gets 2-3% of the ideal anticipated adult weight each day, divided into 4 meals.
The ideal diet should consist of approximately 80% raw meat, 10% raw edible bone, 5% raw liver, 5% other raw organs, the occasional egg, shell and all, raw.
NO veggies, NO fruit. Dogs cannot digest vegetables or fruits; they lack the enzyme necessary to break down cellulose. Look at cows: they have the enzyme, and they still need four stomachs and they have to eat the cellulose twice. Dogs have one stomach and a straight-and-simple digestive tract.
They also don't have flat-topped grinding molars: the dog's back teeth are carnassials, designed to scissor through meat and bone, to break up prey animal carcasses into chunks small enough to swallow.
NO grains; again, dogs can't digest cellulose, and the other ingredients are the primary cause of allergies and diabetes in dogs.
NO dairy; dogs are lactose intolerant: another digestive enzyme they don't have.
NO supplements other than an occasional spoonful of deepsea fish body oil for the Omega-3 that corn-finished meat does not contain.
Chewing up raw meat takes work, as does chomping through the incidental bones. The exercise involved in handling Big Complicated Food (several days' worth), and in breaking up bones into swallowable chunks, keeps dogs teeth clean and satisfies a part of their brain that nothing else touches. These dogs are less hyper, friendlier... and a bit more inclined to protect their food: after all, this food is worth protecting!
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