You could always buy her some ground beef, it is fairly inexpensive if you buy the regular and not the lean variety.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roxyluvsme13
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You could always buy her some ground beef, it is fairly inexpensive if you buy the regular and not the lean variety.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roxyluvsme13
Every ground beef no matter what Kind I've ever seen was like really expensive. It's like $5 a pound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crazy-Cat-Lover
Wow! Where I live, regular ground beef is under $1.00/pound. I can buy a HUGE package of it for under $8.00.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roxyluvsme13
It's really expensive, like a huge roll is $20+Quote:
Originally Posted by Crazy-Cat-Lover
Ahh! I have to check our local Whole Foods Market out now! Is it in the freezer section or...?
Roxyluvsme13, have you checked out a local Walmart or anything? It's odd that hamburger/ground beef would be that expensive. Are you *positive* that it costs 5$ per pound? It sounds more like filet mignon than regular ol' ground beef, LOL. At our Safeway, we can buy a medium package of ground beef for 1-3$ which would suffice to make at least 20 Satin Balls. If you think about it, that's 9$ to make 60 Satin Balls which could last you about a month. That's pretty inexpensive :)
Yep, it's in the freezer section! You could just call and they'll tell you :)
Roxyluvsme, you need to tell your Mom that Roxy NEEDS a better food. Dog chow is probably going right through her, it has very little nutritional value. Imagine if you could only eat a limited amount of cheap corn flakes, and being an athlete or living in extremely sever temperatures - you would NOTTT be healthy. Seriously, tell her that Roxy just won't keep healthy weight on if she is bought discount kibble and living outside. Try to at least bump it up to Purina One, which at least has some meat protein in it, and add either good quality canned food or satin balls. Tell her that animal control can and will be called by concerned neighbors if she doesn't put weight on - and, you need to explain to her that such a poor quality food is actually costing you MORE than a better quality kibble would! You're probably feeding her 3x more Dog Chow than she would need to be healthy on a higher quality kibble with more calories/protein/nutrients. You could save up spare change and buy a few lbs of ground beef to add to her diet! My Dad just bought some, and I checked and it costs $3.99 for a large package... about $0.50/lb, and this is California!
wow this is a long thread.......
i feel daisy jo IAMs puppy food.....is that good? I hope...she sure likes it
Well I probably overexaggerated on the ground beef price, but it really isn't cheap anywhere. a Small package is about $5..which isnt alot of ground beef. I have $10 right now, but it's going to Seb's new tank...so I dunno. We're sorta low on money because of income tax, but I'll see if I can do anything to get her a better dog food.
I already tried the whole "If we buy a better dog food, it actually saves us money!" Thing. My mom said she wasn't going to pay $30 a bag for dog food(it was Nutro, that I wanted to put her on) Since we have started feeding her more though, she is gaining weight...UGH I hate my mother sometimes.
I feed my two labs Flint River kibble with broth and some lean chicken thrown in. They love it and are doing extremely well. I've dropped their feeding back to once a day (mornings) and my picky eater is doing so much better with this schedule. I have the Flint River on auto ship and the shipping is free and since they don't eat as much of it as the store bought brands it is actually costing me less. I am a very happy camper with my dog's feeding situation. :)
I'm surprised nobody has brought this up since so many people are being educated by this thread. Processed meats are worse than kibble. None of that plastic wrapped stuff on the grocer's shelf. That's pumped full of chemicals that are unhealthy for people and shorten our lifespans and the same goes with dogs and cats. I try not to eat processed meats myself. I am in no way ready to switch to raw until I find out which bacteria can be transmitted to dogs. I also hope all you raw feeders do a lot of cleaning of anything the meat touches. I prefer the utility diet of cooked meat and raw veggies, eggs, and such. You can give a balance of nutrients with a cooked meat diet too.
That was something I was wondering. Now-a-days meat has so many chemicals in it. But also wouldn't raw veggies and friut unless you know that they are organic? But then it is even more to feed raw. I was just thinken that either way they are still getting bad stuff right??? Also I know that salmonella that gets us sick doesn't bother dogs or cat, but they can transmit. That is why I am a little worried about giving raw meat to my dogs. Our boxer knows how to get you when you aren't ready. I would hate to get sick from a kiss. :p
I just checked out the web site and it looks great. I have been looking for a food that would be good with dogs with allergies. I'm not sure if they have food allergies but I would still like to help as much as possible. Also my dogs are pitt's and boxers so they are very sensitive to everything!!! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by labmomma
The stuff RAW people feed is not processed -- processed meats are the aame thing as processed cheese, or Spam. It's the fake version of the real stuff. Processed meat isn't really meat -- it contains high amounts of sodium and preservatives. The stuff you are talking about it just inorganic meat, which isn't nearly as bad as kibble -- most kibble doesn't only use inorganic meat, but diseased and rotten meat as well. I'm not picky about the kind of meat I buy -- I try to buy as organic as possible, but it is far too expensive to rely on organic foods altogether. I am certainly NOT careful about washing everything that meat touches. I believe that in order to stay resistant to bacteria, your body has to build a resistance to it by being around it as much as possible. I'm not careful about washing my hands and counters after handling raw meat, never have been, and I have yet to get sick. My friend who is absolutely paranoid about bacteria and washes and Lysols the heck out of things became very ill after she first started cooking meat in foods class in highschool. As long as you know what you're doing, none of the bacteria in raw meat will harm your dog. If you mix kibble and raw meat together, there is a much higher chance that the bacteria will affect your dog because the kibble is harder to digest and takes hours longer -- it can hold back the raw meat. Raw meat alone is easily digested and passed through the body quickly enough that the bacteria doesn't harm the dog. There are exceptions of course, some dogs with genetic digestive problems and such may not have the right enzymes in order to digest certain things, such as raw meat. This is mostly because some dogs have been thriving on kibble so long that they continue to bear puppies that have digestive problems and can ONLY eat kibble. Dogs with pancreatitis are a good example of that. The majority of them can only eat kibble or their pancreatitis will act up if fed anything else.Quote:
Originally Posted by IRescue452
ITA. We don't switch our dogs over to an all RAW diet until they are 6 months old. We feel it's best for them to build up an immunity towards bacteria by eating kibble for 6 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by wolfsoul
Wolfsoul has explained it much better than I could ;)
really? we switch pupps to raw as soon an humanly possable, its MUCH better for their growth, if I compare moth my BCs one who grew up on kibble and one who was started on raw at 7 weeks the builds are very differnt, and its not hereditary, there is not one single dog in Happys entire pedigree that has a structure that even remotly resembles hers. Misty is smaller, better filled out, better muscled and had an overall better growth rate. Happy was not switched till around 6 months, she is tall, lanky, and if I shaved her she would pass for a greyhound lol she grew in huge sprurts, about 3 inches a week lol