hi i would like to know what kind of raw meat to feed my 18month old gsd and how much and if this is better for him please help.

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hi i would like to know what kind of raw meat to feed my 18month old gsd and how much and if this is better for him please help.

As you look at this post, look up to your right on the screen. Click on SEARCH. Now, in search, use the term "raw" in quotes for the search term, and you'll get dozens of answers. Or you could use "barf" as the search word.

Also, if you read these 50 beginning Q and A, you'll Have a good grounding in raw feeding:
http://www.njboxers.com/faqs.htm

Or, at Leerburg Table of Contents (higher up than "search, upper right), look at "Articles" and see the one Ed has about feeding.

The question you posed is too broad to answer in a post. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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hi i would like to know what kind of raw meat to feed my 18month old gsd and how much and if this is better for him please help.

I forgot to say that, in "search," make sure "forums to search" is set on "all forums."

Hi regarding the raw diet. you should feed GSD primarily dry food. you can mix some raw beef in with his dry; or occasionally feed some raw.

Diana, I'm afraid you are going to find quite a few people here who disagree with you <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />. Have you checked out the links Connie posted?

Get a shovel and dig a bunker. The barrage is soon to follow <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

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hi i would like to know what kind of raw meat to feed my 18month old gsd and how much and if this is better for him please help.

If you read the links supplied, and the Leerburg web pages about diet, you'll be well-equipped to make your own choice between kibble and fresh food.

But whichever way you go, please do *not* mix raw meat in with kibble. The zillions of canine nutrition sites that say "don't mix raw in with kibble because they are digested differently" have a reason. I wish the reason was presented more clearly than it is, sometimes.

Dry commercial food (kibble) takes about three times as long as raw for the dog to digest. (This is partly because of the grains in them, which dogs haven't evolved eating and for which they don't have the enzyme amylase in their saliva, which humans do, to break them down; there are other reasons too.)

Anyway, adding raw to the dry food means that the raw food is forced into long contact with the dog's digestive system. One of the big reasons dogs aren't vulnerable in the human way to e.Coli, salmonells, etc., is their short, fast digestion. Adding kibble to raw takes away that natural advantage and circumvents (in a bad way, IMO) the dog's natural system.

You have some interesting reading to do if you follow the link above and read some of the threads here under "raw." <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

http://www.leerburg.com/diet.htm
http://www.feedmypet.com/dog-food-comparison.html


Good for you for wanting to do some research.