RAW DIET HELP PLEASE...…
I have decided to feed my dog RAW, so she will hold a healthier lifestyle. I have done the research, but there is a problem. My parents will completely not let me feed my dog raw chicken or turkey or any bird for that situation. They do not want her to get sick from the salmonella or bacteria. Since there is other alternative meats, this is not a problem. But since the dog should eat some bones, a problem arises. I have with the sole purpose ever heard of chicken necks, backs and turkey neck used as the bone. Is there any other bone I could feed my dog as a subsitiute for the chicken neck? How various would I feed her? She is a 14 pound dog. Thanks.
P.S. What do you think of the RAW diet? Have your dogs done well on it? Any tips for a first time starter? Please share your personal stories and your beliefs.
Thanks everyone.
You can feed a dog pretty much any type of raw meat and they will be fine (except fish in several cases due to mercury). You don't want to feed it meat that obviously has problems, but we nurture our dogs meat that hasn't been used in time for us to eat and they are fine. Their immune systems can touch a lot more than ours. They are actually healthiest on a raw meat diet because to be exact more natural for them so doing this will be great for your dog. When our dog got mange I did some research and one thing that help tremendously was putting her on a raw meat diet because it gave her immune system a huge boost. You will be impressively pleased with the benefits. And something I would like to suggest is that you can return with very inexpensive meat if you go to a butcher and ask him to buy the meat he can't supply. He will be glad to be making a little money off it and it will be a lot smaller number expensive than buying meat that is sold to people. And it will be just fine for your dog.
Feeding a dog a raw diet would be biologically appropriate for their species. Dogs, opposite for popular belief, are carnivores, and therefore need to eat meat to thrive (they can SURVIVE lacking meat, but would certainly not be thriving) and feeding raw meat would be unquestionably wonderful.
Dogs immune systems are made different than ours; they can handle A LOT more than we would ever be able to. Plus, dogs digest their food much faster than us humans too (Their digestive systems are made to only digest meat, not plant matter) so microbes really does not have that much time to settle in.
Here is a wonderful article about germs in raw meat:
http://rawfed.com/myths/bacteria.html
Answers: There is no risk of germs from raw chicken.
http://rawfed.com/myths/bacteria.html
But you can also feed, pork, beef and lamb neck bones, ribs, tail, ribs, pig, or duck feet, I don't know about where you live, but here I am competent to find whole pig heads, which are also good.
Dogs are not empire. They do not absorb nutrition and bacteria the same approach people do, so unless your dog has some immune problem, you dog will NOT get sick from crude poultry.
Even if you still do not want to feed chicken, duck is a good instrument to go. People eat duck medium infrequent, because ducks don't have salmonella like other birds.
I have both of my Fox Terriers on a raw diet. I buy the food pre-made from my Pet Store. I donate my dogs raw beef marrow bones that I buy at the grocery store.
the raw diet is great. i have my pit, my chihuahua and my bichpoo on it but it just became toooo much money so i had to turn bak to dog food. i get the best i could find tho. o n u could also give ur dog beef bones just never contribute em pork, cooked or raw. NEVER DO PORK!
I can honestly say that goat and chicken are the staple meat I feed to all of my dogs. I've been coarse feeding for 10 years, no problems with salmonella or e. coli. Do you know why? Because no dog on Earth has ever have a salmonella or e. coli infection! Dogs eat dead animals either freshly kill or carrion...they have plenty of salmonella. Dog food has plenty of salmonella in it. Dogs simply do not take sick of salmonella! Just like we can't get the parvo, they don't get salmonella poisoning, extent. And as far as e. coli...it's found in feces and dogs lick their behinds every day, no vet has ever see a dog with e. coli poisoning because it never happens. So if your parents own a problem with poultry remind them of the fox in the hen house, or the feral dog who eats the uninhibited turkey that died in the fall, froze during the winter and thawed out surrounded by the spring that's full of every deadly bacterium we can think of but is fine. These common bacterium we find surrounded by raw meats don't affect dogs at all, length. Secondly you can feed just about any liberal of rib bone as they aren't weight bearing bones. I also feed goat and lamb neck, some people feed pork necks. Oxtails are another accurate one but they're usually expensive. Just tell them to get over the poultry phobia, the dogs will be fine beside chicken, every dog in my kennel eats chicken almost on a daily basis, as do my house dogs (one is a little chihuahua jack russ. mix the same size as your dog). My cat eats a unprepared diet too, she prefers chicken to anything else.
Show your parents this website:
http://www.rawfed.com/myths/
There is NOTHING wrong with raw feed, I've been doing it for 2 months with 0 problems. Any bone is fine, bigger ones are more preferable though.
