I used to feed my doggy poison. :D

[.muse.]

Murr, I was so hoping you two would chime in. I couldn't remember the name blue ridge lol. Thank you guys! After work today I shall look at both of those to see how much it would be for me to order out here. When we find a house the hubs gave the OK to raise game birds for the dogs and taught me how to properly butcher a whole bird last night. It was actually a lot of fun and the dogs loved watching us portion things out.
Big Dan's website is mobile friendly so I just took a peek at that, shipping seems reasonable and doable for us, we just need a coffin freezer! Going to start looking on Craigslist for one in the next few weeks as we get the dogs fully transitioned over to raw.

[.muse.]

Double posting instead of editing so it will show up fresh for other users.

So the brats are being switched back to raw as some of y'all know. We started with skinless chicken and both of the boys have lost a little weight. Not an alarming amount, but it still just bothers me a bit. Doakes needed to shed a pound or two anyways so I'm really not concerned with him, he has hips again and looks so much more fit. Link on the other hand, I want to build his weight back up cause he is a little on the underweight side ffor no reason. He gets plenty of food, we're following the right ratios. I'm curious if maybe I should switch to a fattier meat every couple days or if there is something I can add to get some more weight gain on him. not much, just enough to get him back up to normal and to keep in mind for future reference cause we've been super active lately and he burns through his meals pretty quick it seems.

[cn_spots]

What are your guys thoughts on feeding dry kibble topped with canned food? I've got a hound with diet restrictions who also is a picky eater. Right now I've got Cap on grain free white and potato for the extra omegas and he's doing amazing on it, allergies have cleared up he looks great but I think he's bored of it. He will eat it every meal it's not like he hates it to the point of skipping meals, but the look on this face I've never seen a more classic 'really this again' lol. I picked up a few cans of TotW oh he's a very happy dog really seems to like it. I guess I'm just curious of what others opinions are, never really included canned into a dog's diet before.

[.muse.]

My mom does that with her dogs. They get kibble topped with canned in the morning and then kibble topped with some sort of home made chicken/beef stock at night. Their lab will not eat kibble straight and their min pin has severe digestive issues and can't handle dry kibble straight.
They use TotW kibble and canned. Their lab is a little overweight, but she was recently forced to be less energetic to give her shredded paw pad time to heal, but their min pins health issues cleared up and have stayed at bay with the canned/dry diet.

My grandparents used to do that as well for their dog, a little differently though. Shadow got straight kibble in the morning and then kibble topped with canned at dinner to keep her occupied with her food while we ate ours.

So I'd say so long as its from a decent brand theres nothing wrong with it? Shadow lived to a rip old 16 and only started to show just how old she was after my grandfather passed. Millie (moms lab) is healthy as a horse aside from the extra pounds. And Madison (moms min pin) aside from her known digestive issues does great on her diet.

[Cardinal]

I honestly think dogs get bored of food, I know I sure would. I top kibble with whatever whenever. Raw eggs, a bit of meat stock from dinner (A spoonful at most. Sodium!), canned dog food, coconut oil, raw scraps from meat, veg, and fruit (no grapes, onions, etc), freeze dried if I happen to have some on hand, bone broth (put bone scraps in a pot and simmer 12-24 hours until the bones dissolve. GREAT for joints!).. All kinds of things. xP

[cn_spots]

So I did a bad? thing and went guilt shopping and ended up with two bags of raw food. I sat down and calculated his calorie intake then mapped out the calories in the different food and what amounts he would need to get the same amount of calories. I have three kinds of food included into each meal, kibble, canned and raw that's not too much or harmful is it? I haven't had any experience with raw but I did make sure to get complete formulas so I don't (hopefully) throw him out of wack. I would like to either increase or switch to raw in the future but previous attempts to introduce raw didn't go well, Captain would not eat raw unless it was a bone.

[Cardinal]

So I did a bad? thing and went guilt shopping and ended up with two bags of raw food. I sat down and calculated his calorie intake then mapped out the calories in the different food and what amounts he would need to get the same amount of calories. I have three kinds of food included into each meal, kibble, canned and raw that's not too much or harmful is it? I haven't had any experience with raw but I did make sure to get complete formulas so I don't (hopefully) throw him out of wack. I would like to either increase or switch to raw in the future but previous attempts to introduce raw didn't go well, Captain would not eat raw unless it was a bone.

Know thy dog! If he does well with variety then he does well with variety and thats frankly the end of it. We've done raw, kibble, and canned/freeze dried all in the same meals with absolutely no problems. If he doesn't do well its probably a case of to much to quickly inwhich case you can feed separately or include more of what he does good with and less of the new thing.

[Imzadi83]

While holding one end of a chicken wing Chloe was working on I was thinking...If bones clean teeth, does pulling apart the skin act like dental floss I wonder? It certainly gets stringy

[Lee-Sins]

First time posting here, but long time stalker c:

Today I used the last bit of dry kibble (Earthborn) mixed it with a raw egg and a bit of raw chicken. My pup seems to really like it but I wanted to explore some options on other dog foods (though he looks perfect and his coat is very nice and fluff).

With that being said I stopped into Petco today in order to grab more pup kibble (normally don't stop here) though I could bring him in with me. Managed to get a bag of Solid Gold lamb and brown rice for pups. It was that or Bison with brown rice but I've always heard good things about Solid Gold. I'll be trying this out for the next few weeks and add in my little flares.

So far I've found Buka really likes the raw chicken, this week it shall be beef so I can watch for any flare ups. Tonight he just had straight kibble and he seems to enjoy it thus far.

[the fragile]

I feed my dogs the 4Health brand Performance forumla. I switched them (and my mom's dog) from grocery store dog food to Diamond Naturals a few years ago, then Diamond had a HUGE food poisoning/recall issue so i switched to Merrick Whole Earth, then when Petco quit carrying it I switched to 4health. They have done SO much better since I made the initial switch from grocery store brands. My APBT's chronic itching, balding and brittle coat issues all but vanished, and my boxer mix went from looking near emaciated and sickly to lean amd extremely muscular. I would never go back. I can see the difference in their health and it appauls me that people still feed their dogs grocery store food.