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To: Eska
Dangerous dangerous advice. Dogs eating raw salmon can be DEADLY. Pacific Northwest and California salmon carry a blood parasite that is very very very dangerous. If this is not something found in Alaska you're lucky, but don't be recommending raw salmon for dogs anywhere, whether caught wild or purchased.

Veterinary Information - Toxins that Affect Dogs

Salmon Poisoning Disease: Pet Health Topics from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University

35 posted on 01/06/2006 11:47:59 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Been feeding salmon for years, vast majority of rural alaskans do the same. Quite expensive (triple) to ship dogfood into bush. I usually buy a pallet of national when I can get it here but mostly they eat fish. In summer, I cook it down into soup, but in winter after it has froze hard for several weeks; its fine raw. They just luv me to death when I throw them each a 2 foot chum every other day. I either split and hang from tail or often just run knife from behind head to in front of tail and run spruce pole thru. They prefer the guts & eggs with their fish.

Actually, I watch feeding caribou & moose scraps; that has to be cooked down. I think the the freezing process must have something to do with the salmon?

But the Indians have fed raw fish since time began. They use to stake their dogs along river so they would learn to catch their own salmon, or starve. They then didn't have to even think about their dogs from June until October and ended up not keeping dumb dogs. Thanks for the link.

80 posted on 01/07/2006 9:06:10 AM PST by Eska
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