What did your dog(s) eat today?

[Kfamr]

Could I add some veggies/fruit?

I have tomatoes, carrots, and bananas.

I was thinking of chopping up the fish real fine anyways. I don't think they'd eat a big filet if I handed it to them right away.


As for feeding chicken, can I feed just regular chicken breasts (I have those) or should I wait and buy chicken legs? I was thinking chicken breasts would be better to start with?

[.sarah]

You could add veggies and fruits, but it'll just be filler. Dogs don't need that stuff, and won't get any nutritional benefit unless if it's pureed or pulped to mimic stomach contents.

I would hand it to them whole, you might be surprised. Unless if you want to be chopping it up for them each time, you are setting yourself up for finicky dogs by doing that if they refuse it whole. Fish is one of those foods that my dogs crave. Mandy goes absolutely nuts over fish, probably because it's so much stinkier than other meats.

Chicken breasts are fine, bone-in or boneless. Chicken legs are kind of small (it's easier for them to choke on smaller pieces), I'd get chicken quarters. Quarters are usually cheaper too, I just got 20 lbs for $.49/lb. Some dogs are really good with eating legs though, it all depends on what type of eater your dogs are. Nova and Luka will practically swallow a leg whole, so I usually feed them quarters or whole chickens.

[Kfamr]

Yeah, I was planning on putting the tomatoes/carrots/bananas in the food processor, making a paste out of it, then putting it over the chopped up trout.

I don't want to give them too much but I don't want them to be hungry.

If I can find a good supply I will hopefully be feeding TimberWolf Organics in the morning, and then when I have more time feeding raw for dinner.

[.sarah]

To save on time, I take one day out every now and then and go buy everything and then package it up to make things easier. If I buy chicken quarters, I seperate them all into little baggies and then freeze them until I am ready to feed it. Otherwise a lot of things freeze into clumps and you have to thaw the whole thing to get the portion you want out, which is a pain.

My mom buys Wal-Mart deli bags on E-bay for about $.01 per bag. I package everything up into a meal portion and then freeze it all. You should see my freezer, it's so organized

It takes a couple hours if I do it myself, but only about 30 minutes if I have help. My mom holds the bags open and seals them while I drop stuff in and cut up organs into portion sizes. Then when I am ready to feed I just put the dogs outside and go get four baggies of something from the fridge or freezer.

[k9krazee]

If I can find a good supply I will hopefully be feeding TimberWolf Organics in the morning, and then when I have more time feeding raw for dinner.

It should be the other way around, shouldn't it? Raw in the morning, kibble at night, because the raw will digest faster.

[Kfamr]

It should be the other way around, shouldn't it? Raw in the morning, kibble at night, because the raw will digest faster.

I don't know, that's why i'm posting in this thread!


I don't feed the dogs in the morning on weekdays because I leave for work at 5am and the dogs aren't even awake. My dad does and I'm pretty sure he'd never want to feed them raw, even if I seperated it for him.

[.sarah]

It should be the other way around, shouldn't it? Raw in the morning, kibble at night, because the raw will digest faster.

As long as you feed them about 8-10 hours apart it doesn't really matter if you feed the kibble in the morning. They should both be ready to pop out around the same time then

[k9krazee]

I have a question, I've been looking into this for a really long time but I'm going to college in the fall and I KNOW that my family wouldn't keep up with it if I do start. Would it be okay to feed them raw while I'm home in the spring/summer and then go back to kibble for the fall/winter? It wouldn't cause their bodies any damage would it because the two are so drastically different?

[.sarah]

Nope, they would benefit from it!

[The Cat Factory]

Chester hasn't had his dinner yet, but he'll be getting a whole chicken. The chicken I am getting him still has the head attached, so I was just wondering if it is okay for them to eat the beak?

[Kfamr]

Okay, so they just had their meal.


1 filet of trout
pureed carrots, banana, and a little bit of tomato on top.

All three started off by licking the trout clean.

Nala seemed to swallow it in one piece. I don't know if she chewed it at all. That's something else I was afraid of.

Simba chewed it, ate it, and looked for more.

Kiara finally ate it after putting it in her mouth and spitting it back out a billion times.


The lady who created "The Dog Food Project" website just told me that it is okay to feed raw and kibble in the same meal. She's been helping me a lot.

Ugh, so confusing.

[Kfamr]

It's been almost a month since mine have been having 1 raw meal a day.

They are doing very well on it. Weird thing is, Kiara - the dog who ate 12 large rawhide candy canes, a big bag of Halloween candy, and everything else imaginable - WITHOUT getting sick - throws up her egg shell & when she gets bones.

Wierd or what?

She finally ate her egg shell last night (I burried it in her chicken/veggie mush.) She chewed it but when I got home there was a little pile of broken up egg shell (I'm assuming whatever liquid came with it was dried already.)

I figured she'd do the best on this diet since she seems to have a stomach of steal.

I think Simba is enjoying it the most. He LOVES his raw chicken legs and gets so excited when it's time to eat. He usually takes the leg out of his bowl and leaves the rest until he's done with his chicken.