 my dogs raw eating habits
#205620 - 08/13/2008 10:33 PM |
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My rescue dog, Bindi 18 lbs terrior mix, has been eating raw for about a year now. In the begining she gobbled up her food right away. I feed her a combination of muscle meat, and chicken with bones, like backs, wings. She has now decided she loves the chicken with bones more than the muscle meat. And if there are no chicken wings or backs in her bowl, she refuses the muscle meat. Has anyone faced this situation before? I have to limit her diet to just chicken and bones. I usually feed her stew meat, pork meat cut up into chuncks, and sometimes beef brisket. I give her a variety at each meal.
I just wondered if anyone else had experienced this trait or not and what they did about it.
thanks Sharon
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#205625 - 08/13/2008 10:56 PM |
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What about RMBs other than chicken?
Will she eat boneless chicken?
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#205628 - 08/13/2008 11:08 PM |
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she reluctantly eats boneless chicken. She is a smaller dog and I want her to have the nutritional help of bones in her diet, but since she is small she needs small parts of the chicken, she has a hard time eating bigger than wing parts and backs. I am considering purchasing a grinder, I could grind up bigger bones.
Do you have any suggestions about this, have you used a meat grinder? We thought it would save us cost wise to grind our own. We have another dog cody, he is only 11.5 pounds, and I want him to eat bones as well as the meat. I do provide them with extremely large soup bones (beef) for them to chew on.
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#205630 - 08/13/2008 11:15 PM |
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She DOES eat the muscle meat if it is accompanied by an RMB?
What do you do when you give her a meal she refuses? Offer something else? Or wait 'til the next meal?
I'm not implying that she is *making* you feed her what she wants. Just trying to figure out your routines.
I'm not a big fan of holding out on a dog to make them eat something they don't want. This is a little different, though. Wings and backs can be a little too boney to be fed solo 'til the end of time. She needs some MEAT in there.
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#205632 - 08/13/2008 11:22 PM |
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she reluctantly eats boneless chicken. She is a smaller dog and I want her to have the nutritional help of bones in her diet, but since she is small she needs small parts of the chicken, she has a hard time eating bigger than wing parts and backs.
Describe what you mean by, "she has a hard time".
We have another dog cody, he is only 11.5 pounds, and I want him to eat bones as well as the meat.
What is Cody fed like?
Does Cody refuse food too?
I'm sorry I'm asking so many questions. I just want to have a good understanding of your situation.
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#205633 - 08/13/2008 11:28 PM |
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Good questions Michael: Bindi is trying to get me to feed her her favorites! but I refuse because she can't eat nothing but chicken wings!!! and Back!!! I refuse, I don't believe in giving her what she likes in this situation because I do not think she would be getting enough meat. I just take up her food and she has to wait until the next meal to eat.
I agree she does need meat in there, even though there is meat on the chicken. That is why I provide other meats for her and provide variety.
This is a typical day: About 3 times a week she splits a duck egg with Cody. I include it with some (a tablespoon) of plain yogurt and a little veggies (about 1/4 cup). At 8:00 am. This is after her walk, play, and free time with Cody( from 6:30 to 8:00)
Dinner= she gets chicken wing, and either stew meat, pork cut up, groud turkey, salmon, or ground burger (lean). It all adds up to 8oz.
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#205635 - 08/13/2008 11:45 PM |
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Next time you go to the store look for some WHOLE frying hens.(with no added solution)
Buy one and 1/4 it yourself. I would be curious to see what your dogs did with that. There will be plenty of edible bone throughout those pieces, if it is bone that Bindi thinks she wants.:wink:
Also, I can assure you that BOTH dogs are fully capable of eating any and every bone in a chicken. I'd be willing to bet that they can handle any RMB that their larger counterparts can handle. If it is an issue of them wanting to, then that is a different story.
I do not have direct experience with a dog not wanting to eat boneless meat, but will be more than willing to help you brainstorm ways to resolve this. And I do think you will be able to.(resolve the problem)
Also, did you ever find a green tripe source? I remember you were looking for it not too long ago.
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#205640 - 08/14/2008 12:41 AM |
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How about bone in breast? I pretty sure that the meat to bone ratio is better than in wings, and they are readily available.
I like Michael’s idea of a whole fryer, or how about maybe some Cornish game hens? Smaller bones and a pretty “complete” package (meat to bone wise)…
One thing to think about when cutting the birds up, think about using a small set of pruning shears for cutting up the back and separating the legs.
For reference, my four pound cat is perfectly able to eat the leg/thigh bone of a chicken, so as Michael pointed out, they are both capable…
How well does she eat next time if a meal is picked up?
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#205652 - 08/14/2008 08:49 AM |
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Michael: Cody never refuses food. He has the same diet as she does.
She can't break the bones very well and continually has to spit them out and try and break them. Then if she does successfully break them up, throws them up later...within about 15 minutes.
No problem asking the questions, I understand, it helps me to think about the situation too.
Sharon
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#205653 - 08/14/2008 08:52 AM |
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I do feed her cornish hens sometimes, forgot to include that. She likes them. WHen I feed her the next day, she will do the very same thing. I was wondering if she doesn't need to eat that much. what I am doing now while I try and figure this out is to cut her food back a little and see what happens. Maybe she just needs to eat a little less? Not sure. That is why I am asking for info. I wonder if it could be she just isn't used to eating bigger bones? If your cat can eat a chicken leg Wow!
sharon
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