I keep reading the posts & the more I read the more confused I get. So some questions.
Why raw meat & bones instead of cooked???
How do you prepare the vegetables??? Steamed or???
Apples & fruit, cooked????
Add a multi vitamin????
Any thing wrong with canned meat, fish or vegetables??
Why are corn, grain & wheat bad for a dog???
The last few days I have been adding a 1/4 pound raw burger to their diet. & Some frozen deboned chicken.
Seams to make them actually eat more. ???
Tried a baked potato, with fake gravy & small girl loved it. Put some fake gravy on their food & they liked that.
Possibly more questions???
Here are two links, there are many others. Google "BARF diet"
The Original Top 50 BARF FAQs for Beginners - BARF: A Bones and Raw Food Diet for Dogs
Raw feeding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The "BARF" diet, an acronym for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food or Bones And Raw Food was created by Billinghurst. The acronym was coined by Debra Tripp. A typical BARF diet is made up of 60-80% of raw meaty bones (RMB), that is bones with about 50% meat,[16] (e.g. chicken neck, back and wings) and 20-40% of fruit and vegetables, offal, meat, eggs, or dairy foods.
Sharon is currently feeding our large dogs dehydrated commercial food (we add water let it set for about 20 minutes) plus a raw chicken drumstick and some raw chicken gizzards. The occasional can of pure pumpkin (not pie mix), raw beef liver, raw beef trimmings once in a while, cooked potato, cooked green beans and such. They eat twice a day.
Sharon buys the raw meat from a distributor that sells to stores and restaurants. 40 lb boxes of just about anything you would want, and cheaper and fresher than the grocery. A 40 lb block of hard frozen beef liver is hard to deal with unless you have a meat saw to chunk it up. Plus you need freezer space.
Dogs love things like whole beef ribs tend to have a lot of fat and be very rich. Beware of too much of those kinds of things, they can cause loose stools.
Fake gravy could be very salty.
In general, I think the dog diet thing can be overdone, but some of the foods would be like a human existing on bad hotdogs. You will live, maybe not as long or as with as much health. Your immune system health is tied to your overall health. A weak immune system is opening your body to more health problems. There are always exceptions in both directions, people or animals.
You ever see a coyote dragging a stove around? :laughing:
