What did your dog(s) eat today?

[bckrazy]

Breakfast - 1/2 of a whole rabbit! for Gonzo; Farmore Chicken for Fozzie, with a small chicken wing.

Lunch - Hardboiled egg w/shell for each.

Dinner - Eating it right now... some Goat milk for Gonzo with his vitamin powder mixed in; Fozzie is eating California Natural kibble with a little bit of Goat milk to soften it.


Bella's my Lab, don't feel bad!!! I think all of us posting here fed kibble before and have switched to raw within the last year or two - I am a realll newb to raw. I definitely recommend buying a raw feeding book by Dr. Ian Billinghurst or any well-rated book from Amazon.com. You can gets lots of great info about raw/homemade feeding from this board, too! If you are interested in transitioning your Labbie (she is super cute by the way) to a better kibble or to raw, lots of members will definitely help you out, including me!

Actually, it is cooked chicken bones that are highly dangerous to dogs. I watch mine as they eat, and they chew the RAW chicken bones into very small, soft pieces. I really carefully handle their meat, it is fully frozen until defrosted overnight in the fridge. But, the intestinal tract of dogs is so short and their system is so radically different from ours that it is extremely rare to see any dog contract salmonella from raw. In those rare cases, I have only heard of Salmonella being contracted because the meat sat in the intestines due to an intestinal block that was caused by rawhide/socks/plastic. If you think about it simply - is corn, by-products and food coloring (ingredients in Pedigree and similar brands) natural or healthful for a dog to eat for it's life?

[binka_nugget]

The Schmelties had tripe, chicken and a smidge of kelp for dinner tonight. Boy am I glad that they're back on raw! I fed them EVO because of our trip to Kelowna.. I forgot how big and yucky kibble poop was! Yuck!

[cloverfdx]

Last nights dinner was beef mince, grated carrot, diced lambs kidneys and some Flaxseed powder.... yummmmm. Tinny even ate ger carrot for a change . Tonights will be similar, but chicken necks instead of beef mince.

They also got marrow bones the night before last that they were still munching on this morning before i chucked them out, just in case fights break out when im not there.

[.sarah]

Today they had a pork roast. Buck had a pig tail for dinner.

[binka_nugget]

Mum was an idiot and forgot to thaw out the bones... so they just had sardines, egg and kelp for breakfast today. Hopefully the bones will be decent for dinner tonight..

[The Cat Factory]

Chester had pork bones and chicken for breakfast. He hasn't had his dinner yet, but he's having chicken and some beef kidney. I just have to cut the kidney up into small pieces, but it smells sooo gross

[dab_20]

Molli and Sam had kibble for breakfast and dinner. They didn't get treats today because they are in the fighting mood.

[.sarah]

They all had fish earlier this morning, and a 1/4 of a chicken just a minute ago.

[wolfsoul]

Breakfast:
~Goat meat and organs
~Beef tripe
~Cottage cheese
~6% yogurt
~Tomato
~One egg (with shelll)
~Fish oil
~Flaxseed
~Alfalfa
~Kelp
~BioVet Sport
~BioVet Skin&Coat
~NutriCal

Snack:
~Oxtail

She's going to get dinner later tonight.

[anna_66]

Well ladies, I've started my three on the raw diet I really started it for one major reason, Bon has never really had good poos on just about any kind of dog food I've given him so I thought what can it hurt?!

As of now their morning meal is raw then later in the day I'm putting out kibble if they want. So far they haven't been eating much kibble at all but I have probably 100 lbs of dog food so I'll keep doing it this way for a while since already his poo is better (in only 3 days!!!!).
Thanks everyone for the super explanations and links to all the websites.
Please keep posting on what your dogs are eating, I'd like to know what variations I should be giving them since this is all new to me

PS I've gotten some awesome deals on chicken leg quarters...only $2.99 for 10lbs! And I've found out we can get rabbits at our local meat market (I had no idea they sold so many different things!).

[.sarah]

YAY ANNA!! That is fantastic!

I am so glad it is working for your dogs, especially Bon!


Jordan, that is some list My dogs only get meat, bones, and organs, and nothing else. Visa's meals sound really complicated lol.

[Crazy-Cat-Lover]

Breakfast: Chicken leg quarter and a whole salmon.

Dinner: Chicken leg quarter, whole salmon and a meaty beef bone.

We buy 1 pound salmons with the heads removed. We went to a local butcher today and he gave us over 5 pounds raw, meaty beef bones and ends for FREE!

[The Cat Factory]

Breakfast: Chicken leg quarter and a whole salmon.

Dinner: Chicken leg quarter, whole salmon and a meaty beef bone.

We buy 1 pound salmons with the heads removed. We went to a local butcher today and he gave us over 5 pounds raw, meaty beef bones and ends for FREE!

I hope the butcher has more beef bones when I go there! Do you know if they sell rabbit there? I want to get some for Chester, but I can't find any

[.sarah]

Oh I also wanted to say that our freezer came in Tuesday and I'm placing our first order tomorrow!

Here is our old freezer. I was only allowed to use the bottom shelf but went overboard last week at the grocery store (they had a going out of buisness sale!) and so some of the dog's stuff overflowed onto the top I had everything organized in bags, but the new freezer is spacious enough to have bins/tubs to put everything in!


Here is the new one! 5x the size of "my" section of the old freezer! Woo hoo!!

There is also another section above that is the size of the old freezer. It is a fridge that can be turned into a freezer if we need more space.


Hey Anna, would you be interested in ordering your food? The place I'm going to start ordering from delivers to all of the east coast. Some of the things are really cheap, some are more expensive, but best of all is that the animals are humanely raised and killed. Makes me happy Anyway, I can give you the link to their yahoo group. The lady who owns the place is really nice and very good with letting you know that your order is ready & being shipped.



Sorry I went off topic, but I thought it'd be nice to have all the raw stuff in this thread now instead of multiple threads.

[Crazy-Cat-Lover]

I hope the butcher has more beef bones when I go there! Do you know if they sell rabbit there? I want to get some for Chester, but I can't find any

They don't sell rabbit - just lamb, beef, chicken and possibly goat. He has tons of leftovers everyday, so you will get some for sure!