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I feed hearts whole and chopped. A caveat, whole hearts can often be swallowed whole which means the dog is more at risk of GDV in a susceptible breed and/or upchucking. |
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I will chop it for her then thankyou. Does the rest of her diet sound ok? |
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I feed heart too about once or twice every ten days. Mine won't eat it completely raw so I tend to chop a lamb's heart into about 3 bits, blanch it in boiling water, then drain. Then I cut it with scissors into bite sized chunks & freeze in portion sizes along with offal that I treat in the same way. This means that it is just cooked on the outside but raw in the middle. Be careful when you chop them up as they can squirt blood all over you!!! I chop mine up because gutsy Barney would probably swallow it whole, chuck it up, try again, chuck it up then chew it a bit  . Wilma would be "I can't possibly eat something as large as that, please kindly use your scissors on it!". I'm not sure if one lamb's heart would constitute a meal ~ depends on the dog. I would probably class it as a smallish meal for one of my labs, the sort of size they get for breakfast, like half a tray of Nature Diet. |
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3 hearts (lamb) roughly constitute a whole meal for my dogs. That would be about 500g roughly |
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Not sure where the OP bought her hearts - but watch the lambs hearts from Tesco - these have been frozen already and can't be re-frozen. |
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 I suppose I had better chuck them out then. I wish they would state on the packaging. |
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It does say on the packaging - but in teeny tiny print - my raw feeding mentor had to point it out to me as I did exactly the same as you having thought i'd got a bargin in the reduced section. If you've a Morrisons locally their fresh meat is all proper fresh though they tend to have ox heart rather than lamb - they do have beef/lamb/pork liver and kidneys though... oh and lamb bones if your lucky |
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Unfortunatly I don't have a Morrisons close enough to make it worthwhile. I think the nearest is about 20 mile away. I've just rescued a few bits from the freezer that were not quite frozen yet and put them in a tub in the fridge for tomorrow. the bits that were frozen are now outside in the dustbin. Thankyou for telling me or I would have fed them . |
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I've frozen many hearts from Tesco over time and my dogs are still alive! I'm sure I recall reading somewhere that refreezing meat doesnt matter so much with dogs (although I dont actually know why it's a no-no in humans!) |
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