I was at Barkfest on the weekend and picked up a couple of freebies of prepared raw food. Very nice freebies, about 4 pounds of free food and one place gave me an insulated bag to put them in.
I was just reading at one supplier's website and it says things I never heard before. This could apply to any food I think, not just raw. But, I googled up each thing and could find nothing to corroborate. Does anyone here know about this? Can you provide links. I just emailed the supplier and forwarded it to my Vet but neither has had time to answer yet.
1. It's better to feed a dog one large meal a day than two smaller ones because a dog's stomach lining is sort of pleated and only stretches to reveal glands that aid in digestion which are hidden in the pleats when a large meal is consumed. Smaller (2 or more meals a day) will not reveal the glands thus the dog will not get full benefit from the smaller meals.
2. A dog will produce *digestive juices based on the time of day fed. Or will produce them at sight of food if a consistent feeding schedule is not adhered to. Dogs fed on a schedule will vomit up the acidic digestive juices if their food is late. Thus it might be better to vary the feeding times so the dog will adapt to only producing the digestive juices at the sight of his meal, not at a certain time, in order to avoid the vomiting.
3. And this site says pork is a particularly beneficial meat to feed because it promotes faster muscle growth and therefore faster training. And that is why pork is used so much by dog sled racers.
* It would seem that digestive juices are not what is produced in the glands of the pleated stomach since the former are produced at sight or time whereas the latter are not produced till the meal is in the stomach. That's my take anyway.
I have paraphrased so this can't be traced back to the actual supplier. I'm new to raw but this all sounds hokey to me. The only one I got close to confirming was pork where it was listed 10th in a list of the ten best foods for protein content for human men involved in body building. Beef was ahead of pork in that one.
Not that this necessarily means the raw food provided by this supplier is no good but it would be nice to know if they are correct in these things. To summarize my questions they are: One meal a day? Vomit if meal late? Pork? Anyone?