Unless you know that your dog has not only never been fed fish but also has never lived with or visited a house with a cat, fish is unlikely to be novel.
Both stolen cat food and litter-box snackies would mean that the dog has probably eaten fish.
My cats don't fish.
They eat the same raw meats that my dogs eat, plus sparrow, starling, and mouse/rodent.
My dog/cat food arrives on the hoof, and I have to shoo them away while I'm butchering. It must be a cat rule that the best place to eat on a whole cow/deer/pig/etc is the place where I'm using a sharp knife.
I have reserved Llama as my novel protein. But those big eyes with the long eyelashes will be a big obstacle. Hmmm, I wonder if eating Llama poop eliminates that option for the dogs? Maybe Water Buffalo, they're pretty ugly and we have no Water Buffalo poop on the place.
Perhaps you urban/non-butchering people could use Guinea Pigs. You can get them already dead and frozen by the tub-full from http://www.rodentpro.com. They also sell quail and rats.
And Mike, my dogs won't eat crow, so that probably won't work for your get-rich-quick scheme. Sorry.
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The only reason I'd choose roo is that there is a local supplier who I can work with for the 8 weeks I'd need for an elimination diet and there is a dog food that uses it. My second choice to it would be rats.
Remember guys, protein is protein where it concerns the humble dog. Guinea pigs, guinea fowl, ostrich, emu, mice, rats, goat, elk, etc can all be novel sources that aren't found in the normal chicken, beef, lamb, pork case. The only reason rabbit won't work is because you need time, as I understand it 6-8 weeks on the elimination diet and you'd need to add fat from something else that odds are you have fed before.
As a final note, after seeing conditions in a reptile food supply house I'll never feed from one. There are not the protections in those breeding houses that even the worst dog food supplier has to abide by concerning living conditions, sources identified, food fed, storage, or euthanization method.
Thanks Melissa for your info about Rabbits.
I had no idea, but I am sure glad that I know now.
You are lucky that you have a 'roo supplier near you. I think that I will stick with Ostrich or Elk. I may be able to find some Ostrich somewhere here in Texas, so those two are going to be reserved for now. Thanks again for the heads up!
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Re: Reserving a novel protein source:
You know, for a millisecond, you had me Mike! 
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Thanks again for the heads up! 
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