My Italian Greyhound who is 12 cannot do bones. She eats kibble. Large and scary pieces of bone appear in her stool. It happened enough times that we just reverted to the dry food she lived on for 11 yrs, with occasional canned salmon or eggs or
tuna as a healthy meal.
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My Italian Greyhound who is 12 cannot do bones. She eats kibble. Large and scary pieces of bone appear in her stool. It happened enough times that we just reverted to the dry food she lived on for 11 yrs, with occasional canned salmon or eggs or tuna as a healthy meal.
Salmon and eggs and even tuna are very good additions to a kibble diet!
You were unable to get chicken backs? I know that there are indeed dogs whose system takes much longer than others' to gear up for digesting bones. I've had one, in fact. This was what triggered my search for whole birds that the butcher would grind the weight-bearing bones and leave the rest as is, and it turned out that the butchers at the small local natural-foods chain will indeed do this with their birds (Smart Chickens) for no charge. I give them lots of lead time so they can do this at their leisure, because there's some kind of special or extra cleaning of the grinder to be done when they grind poultry. I forget exactly what it was, but it's no problem for me to call ahead.
If I hadn't found this extremely helpful source, I'd probably have stuck to chicken backs as the sole RMB for that dog, with variety in the MM.
My Italian Greyhound who is 12 cannot do bones. She eats kibble. Large and scary pieces of bone appear in her stool. It happened enough times that we just reverted to the dry food she lived on for 11 yrs, with occasional canned salmon or eggs or
tuna as a healthy meal.
Did you give Digestive Enzymes before & during the switch to raw?
Kibble fed dogs can/do lack Digestive Enzymes, needed for raw.
When we first got Fanny as a baby, I found this place that sells quail bones. Fed these when she was not much bigger than a quail herself. (Imagine weeee little chicken carcasses with the breast meat and legs stripped off. That's what they sell as "quail bones") $30 for 20 pounds isn't cheap, but not ridiculous. Since there's little residual meat, you have to add muscle meat to this source of bone.
My Italian Greyhound is lacking in the tooth department.
She does fine on kibble, and eats enough hamburger and other cooked foods that I am not concerned. She's actually 13, going blind now.
Quail! That's an idea. We raised quail one year. They are ridiculously cute as babies.
I'm not so sure I want to start the dogs eating fully feathered things. We raise turkeys, have some ducks, chickens.
What experience have others had with feeding whole chickens (with feathers) --isn't that tempting them to become poultry killers?
I guess I already asked that!
I'm not certain that I can train my dog that well, I guess. Or watch him that close.
What would Turbo do if there were chickens pecking around in your yard? Do you think if you told him no you could safely put him out in the back yard with the chickens?
THe chickens stay MAINLY behind their hot wire, and the dog doesn't go in the chicken house.
I don't want him to start.
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