Hi guys, well please don't laugh at me. I've always fed my dogs raw food. My Gsd's and my St. Bernard eat raw but yesterday my girlfriend got a Yorky pup (yikes) 8 weeks old and I have absolutely no clue as to how to feed him raw. He's so tiny...
Anyway, how should I start? I'm used to feeding large dogs but this little guy I really don't know. Connie? Help please!
My cat could take a drum stick. Give him a chance and see how he does.
My favorite meal to dispense, frozen deer head, is dismantled in tiny increments over 1.5 hours. Teeth don't always have to slice and crush. They can shave and chip as well.
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Teeny dogs can eat raw with no problems at all. Just give smaller portions, or get some smaller (meat) animals. You can get frozen feeder chicks and mice online, or you could get some Cornish Game Hens or quail. Or just cut the pup small slices of whatever you are feeding your big dogs.
And in your replies to Enrique's question will you also address whether you have heard of Yorkies having problems with raw? My sister has one and she says that the Yorky can't eat raw because he vomits. (She has 2 other dogs in the household on raw). This doesn't sound right to me.
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Hi guys, well please don't laugh at me. I've always fed my dogs raw food. My Gsd's and my St. Bernard eat raw but yesterday my girlfriend got a Yorky pup (yikes) 8 weeks old and I have absolutely no clue as to how to feed him raw. He's so tiny...
Anyway, how should I start? I'm used to feeding large dogs but this little guy I really don't know. Connie? Help please!
Two of my dogs are small.
Grab some chicken backs and ground breast and watch him go.
But start with the skin and fat pulled off the softer parts just in case he's one of the dogs who needs to start slowly with fat (which has nothing at all to do wih the dog's size).
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Some toy dogs are very finicky eaters and it's important that the very tiny pups eat a number of times a day. They can dehydrate very rapidly if they don't eat regularly.If he doesn't like what you're feeding, please get him a palatable food that he will eat. You should ask the breeder what he was eating and keep him on that for awhile. You can always transition him to a raw diet later on when he grows up a bit. An 8-week Yorkie is way too tiny and fragile to mess around with food issues. My Min Pin on the other hand loves raw food! I didn't start him on raw food until he was around 6 months old and had his adult teeth in place. He loves pretty much anything raw now. He'll be 2 in May, all 6 lbs of him and he eats the same stuff that my Weimaraner, GSD, Lab and Vizsla eat.
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And in your replies to Enrique's question will you also address whether you have heard of Yorkies having problems with raw? My sister has one and she says that the Yorky can't eat raw because he vomits. (She has 2 other dogs in the household on raw). This doesn't sound right to me.
Of course you are correct; breed is irrelevant.
She may be overfeeding or giving a lot of fat at the beginning. My money is on too much food at once.
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.... You should ask the breeder what he was eating and keep him on that for awhile. You can always transition him to a raw diet later on when he grows up a bit. An 8-week Yorkie is way too tiny and fragile to mess around with food issues. My Min Pin on the other hand loves raw food! I didn't start him on raw food until he was around 6 months old and had his adult teeth in place. ...
I totally bow to puppy folks if eight weeks is too young for raw. I didn't know that.
As for breed and size, however, I have known a lot of teeny dogs happily thriving on raw food.
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For sure! I had a Mini Dachschund for 14 years who loved raw food and my Min Pin loves it too. Sometimes the toy breeds are very finicky and it's really important that the teeny pups eat so I wouldn't recommend a "cold turkey" transition from the food the breeder was feeding an 8-week old pup to a completely raw diet and expect a teeny pup to handle that extreme transition too well. Another poster noted that Yorkies can have finicky stomachs (another tiny dog trait) so some may not be able to handle a completely raw diet.
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