Yum! Lucky dawg!
Thanks, I’ll be looking into that website.
It’s frightening to think just by the simple act of feeding your dog, you could sicken or kill him.
That sickens ME.
Just so you know - I am not new to feeding a “species appropriate” diet. I started way back when I lost one much loved dachsie to heart disease, caused by gum disease. When the second much loved dachas was diagnosed with the same, I did some research into the relationship between kibble, gum/tartar/disease, and decided to switch our little elderly girl ASAP.
Huzzah! Cleared up her gum disease, and also her heart disease! Who would have thought? Now, I could only afford to have their teeth cleaned once a year, which wasn’t enough!
Later, when adopting two Belgian Malinois, I never fed them any other way. They lived out their life-span with no vet visits, health problems, flea or tick problems, vaccines, except for the 3 year rabies required by law - It just works, if done properly, but be careful about who you read.
Billinghurst was good at the beginning, then he got onto all sorts of supplements and grinding up veggie slop - bad idea.
Tom Lonsdale is the real deal. Never feed cooked bones to dogs, although raw-fed dogs are less apt to get into trouble if they come across someone’s discarded Kentucky Fired Chicken leftovers, because their stomach acids are ready to digest bones.
Also, very important - include some organ meats in the right proportion to the raw meaty bones. These give the missing vitamins not found in the muscle meat. I use dried, mostly, but if I am lucky enough to find organic organs, I will give them in small amounts, raw.
It really isn’t any more expensive, in the overall scheme of things, and has been way cheaper for me, even while feeding the highest quality I can find.
You will be shocked at the improvement in poop - hard, not-so-smelly, crumbles away to a whitish powder in the yard after a day or two in the sun -
And, no more anal glands getting clogged up! Totally surprised my groomer of our new little guy (havanese), who hard these stiff little bms that clean his glands the old-fashioned way. You could probably hit them into the next yard with a putting iron, if you wanted. I just use a paper towel now that we live in “senior living”, because these are never gushy or soft.
Also, no more doggy breath, or stinky dog smell when wet...
But, do your homework!