I use NuPro supplement. I mix a teaspoon of this powder with a little water to make a gravy and add it to her raw ingedients. My girl licks the bowl clean every time.
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I use NuPro supplement. I mix a teaspoon of this powder with a little water to make a gravy and add it to her raw ingedients. My girl licks the bowl clean every time.
Sounds to me like too much too soon. If Reggie is 3-years-old and has never eaten raw meat, a turkey neck will not only be foriegn to his taste buds but also to his digestive system. Dogs that have...
Any vet worth their salt will tell you not to feed a dog cooked bones of any sort. Cooked bones have the potential to splinter and cause gastro-intestinal blockage, perforated intestines or much...
After researching raw diets, I purchased a fairly expensive grinder. I read all about the advantages to feeding meaty bones--exercising their jaws, cleaning their teeth, etc. But my dog is a gulper...
Thanks everyone. I felt a bit guilty. But there is a learning curb to this whole raw feeding thing. In just a few days, I've noticed my dog's breath is no longer stinky.
Everyone who warned me not to feed organ meat the first few weeks was right. My girl threw-up her 4th meal of 80%, 10%, 10% and wouldn't go near her food again. She was definitely off--low energy,...
Thanks, Shelly. I'll try the chicken wings again sometime down the road. 48 hours and her poops are small and solid. This is with 80% meat, 10% bone, 10% organ and some veg thrown in. I also...
Thanks for the info. I was concerned that I was overfeeding my dog. The ammount of raw food vs kibble is about twice the volume. But then the ammount of calories in a cup of kibble is about twice...
Oops--I had it backwards. I thought kibble would be digested faster, but it makes sense that it would take longer to break down processed food than raw whole foods.
Berna--thanks for the advice. I will be monitoring her poops for the next few days. I've read that it takes longer for a dog to digest raw meat than kibble. So far, no change in her stool. I...
Yesterday, my dog's dinner consisted of kibble and 2 spoonfuls of canned dog food. Today I put together her first raw breakfast: chicken necks, boneless chicken thighs, chicken liver, hearts and...
Looks to me like you got your meat ratios about right, maybe 5% less organ meat. Too much organ meat can cause loose stools. Also, you want to make sure that your chicken/bones portion has at least...
My dog walking friends and I call it Mortal Combat--when two or more dogs show off and play rough together. This includes gnashing of the teeth, growling, nipping and tugging at the cheeks and legs,...
The thing about dog parks is that people who cannot control their dogs often bring them there because they are fenced-in. One day you may find well behaved dogs, the next, dogs that will not follow...
Awesome!!! This is how dogs should play. Too often people take this for aggressive behaviour, but they're just being dogs. Nice video.
Nice head tilt. Dogs are always trying figure out us humans.
Hi everyone,
Here's a video I made of my dog, Sadie, and all her friends. We belong to a group of dogwalkers at a nature preserve here in upsate NY. Lots of wooded trails, streams and open...
That might explain why I couldn't log-in under my old name and password. Were all the old posts and threads lost due to the crash?
There was a board crash?
Doh!!! Not sure why I didn't figure this out myself. Thanks.
Is there any way to weigh a lab on a regular bathroom scale? I'm starting my dog on a new diet and want to monitor her weight. I looked at dog scales on Amazon and they were very expensive. I...
Last summer, we had 2 separate black bear encounters. They pulled the doors off our locked garbage shed looking for food and created a wholly racket in the middle of the night. Each time while I...
Shelly--yes, it's easy to overfeed a lab an any diet. I have a digital kitchen scale that I plan to use to portion out Sadie's meals. I've read that most dogs switching from kibble to raw actually...
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!
SunDance--I sometimes call my girl SadieLady, but my previous forum name was Arf Garfunkel. Looking forward to getting to know some of you.
Her's a copy...
Hi all,
I used to frequent this forum when I first brought home my yellow lab, Sadie, at 9 weeks. I gained lots of solid advice and tips on how to raise a lab puppy. This forum was a great...
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