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18-10-2006, 08:03 PM
Originally Posted by thandi 
Even if I treat them to fresh human grade from the butchers it goes in the freezer first
just out of interest, do you freeze the meat you eat before you use it? (well before cooking, cos eating meat when it is frozen is probably ulikely unless you are an Inuit)
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18-10-2006, 08:04 PM
Originally Posted by SBT
minihaha, I know you don't get the egg thing, I do feed my dog egg, no shell no white just raw yolk and no veg, he's a carnivore
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18-10-2006, 08:08 PM
Originally Posted by Lucky Star
I find the whole thing really confusing, tbh. There are so many different opinions out there, not just raw or dry but high protein or high carb too.
Seems no matter what you do you can't do right for doing wrong.
People have to feed what they and their dogs are happy with.
I think, IMO, a BARF diet can be even more confusing, it's hard to eat a balanced and healthy human diet and i'm afraid I , like a lot of people lack the necessary knowledge about canine nutrition, to feed a raw diet.
Throwing the cat amongst the pigeons...just for fun...
Dogs have been domesticated for hundreds and hundreds of years...is their digestive system realy still 'up' for digesting raw food???? It's been a long time since they were hunters...
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18-10-2006, 08:15 PM
Originally Posted by Ailsa1
couldn't agree more LS and that's partly why I stick to a 'safe' option that is working for my boys...they are happy and healthy...mo has had prostate problems, but that's because he was 'entire' and now he isn't he's grand...
People have to feed what they and their dogs are happy with.
I think, IMO, a BARF diet can be even more confusing, it's hard to eat a balanced and healthy human diet and i'm afraid I , like a lot of people lack the necessary knowledge about canine nutrition, to feed a raw diet.
Throwing the cat amongst the pigeons...just for fun...
Dogs have been domesticated for hundreds and hundreds of years...is their digestive system realy still 'up' for digesting raw food???? It's been a long time since they were hunters...
*steps back quietly....*
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18-10-2006, 08:16 PM
Originally Posted by Ailsa1
Throwing the cat amongst the pigeons...just for fun...
Dogs have been domesticated for hundreds and hundreds of years...is their digestive system realy still 'up' for digesting raw food???? It's been a long time since they were hunters...
*steps back quietly....*
Don't go Ailsa! I do feed Loki raw and I cook some too - best of both worlds??? 
He seems to digest raw okay - no dodgy aftermath , . Thing is, I used to really worry about this but then he'd go and eat horse dung or find a dead (rotting :smt078 ) feathered thing or get a rabbit so I thought well my nice supermarket stuff can't be too bad then.
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18-10-2006, 08:17 PM
Originally Posted by SBT
What animal eats cooked food...
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18-10-2006, 08:18 PM
Originally Posted by SBT
What animal eats cooked food...
That's what I'm saying SBT...dogs have...since they became domesticated dogs have lived off human scraps...cooked ones...(and raw probably but largely cooked). In fact in the not too distant past, pet dogs just ate what the owners were having or what the owners left....cooked food.
It's been a while since a domestic dog ate a raw diet...
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18-10-2006, 08:20 PM
Originally Posted by Lucky Star
Don't go Ailsa! I do feed Loki raw and I cook some too - best of both worlds??? He seems to digest raw okay - no dodgy aftermath , . Thing is, I used to really worry about this but then he'd go and eat horse dung or find a dead (rotting :smt078 ) feathered thing or get a rabbit so I thought well my nice supermarket stuff can't be too bad then.
For now though, they are incredibly happy and healthy on the food they have so why change it if it ain't broke?!!!!:smt002
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18-10-2006, 08:21 PM
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18-10-2006, 08:25 PM
Originally Posted by Ailsa1
For now though, they are incredibly happy and healthy on the food they have so why change it if it ain't broke?!!!!:smt002
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