re: Feeding dogs raw meat.

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Backstrap is borderline edible

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People who know little to nothing about cooking agree.

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Once adapted they are fine. There is a whole raw dog food community out there.

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I know an HVAC guy who kept three Dobermans inside the high fence around his Dallas Love Field area shop. He said he fed them raw meat & gunpowder.The house he had for them was only big enough fro two of them. The day I 1st saw them it was cold. They were constantly fighting each other between running at me barking when I was outside the fence. I can usually handle being around big guard dogs because I grew up raising Dobermans. I'd never seen Dobermans that were that wild acting.

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Feeding dogs raw meat.

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before processed dog foods, everything dogs ate was raw red meat

what is unnatural to their digestion is the store bought processed dog foods

My lab ate two very large very expensive prime graded NY strips right off the counter that were raw. Then she laid around for two days before taking a massive dump.

I feed my 2 dogs all kinds of raw pork, chicken, and deer. Basically anything I’m trimming fat or silver skin off of, they’re getting the trimmings. They love it and it’s never caused a problem.

Used to feed them bones too, but they chew them up and eat them so fast and it gives one of them the squirts and causes her to shite blood. I’m not really worried about her, but tired of cleaning up bloody shite in the house.

Yesterday just happened to be Raw Dog Food day. This tub is approximately 65 lbs. of dog food. The time required to grind up and package in freezer containers was 4 hours start to finish, including cleanup. The food contains 20 lbs. of chicken leg quarters, 10 lbs. of pork tenderloin, 10 lbs. of 80/20 ground beef, 5 lbs. of brown rice, 2 lbs. of cooked oatmeal, Cucumbers, Carrots, Apples, Blueberries, Broccoli, Green Peas, 5lbs. of beef liver, 12 Hard Boiled eggs, shell and all. Probably missed something since I am doing this off the top of my head. End result is the giant tub of Puppy Chow. We have a 30 lbs. Cocker that eats 16 ounces of this mix a day.

the last bag of Purina Plus I bought caused my dog to shite all over the house for days. Like slimy snail trails. It was disgusting. So I started making her boiled rice, chicken, peas, sweet potatoes, eggs with shells, corn, etc. Also gave her the uncooked bones.

She absolutely loves it and her turds are solid and glossy.

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How much did that cost you

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Chicken leg quarters were 8.72 per 10 lbs. bag at Walmart. I could have gotten them cheaper at Winn Dixie, but the wife didn't listen and bought them at Walmart. Pork Tenderloin was 19.70 at Sam's, Beef liver was 3.00 x 5 packs, 10 lbs. ground beef was 34.00 at Walmart. Veggies, apples and blueberries were a few bucks at Walmart but the receipt was thrown away. 5lbs. Brown rice was 6.00. Roughly 92 bucks.

My dog roams the ponds and will eat a dead catfish on the levee that’s been decomposing for a week


I don’t think fresh raw meat will hurt him.

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My dog is the healthiest he's ever been, and our vet is astonished by the results of the diet.

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I started making my Weim's food the last two years of his life and the difference was phenomenal. His coat went back to sleek and shiny even at 12 years old. He never got food fatigue, never had to convince him to eat, was easier to maintain weight. His stomach adjusted after a few days and never had issues after that.

I bought him several kinds of the expensive dog food, but none of it was worth the cost. It was more expensive to make it, though. I never did the raw stuff (cooked chicken mostly), but I'd buy this raw food roll at the pet store that had organs like liver. Mixed that with a filler like rice or sweet potato, bone powder, fish oil and I can't remember what else.