I think that grinding is a perfectly reasonable precaution!
I was referring more to the slicing up chicken breasts so that the dog wouldn't get "too much meat" in one meal.
I don't believe that it's possible for a dog to get too much meat
As long as the owner is careful about balancing out the meals over several days by adding in bones, I don't see it as a problem to feed a huge chunk of meat in a meal.
Carol, I feel for you
A whole chicken should certainly slow her down... especially if you feed it frozen!! Of course Mals do seem to defy some very basic laws of physics... hee hee
If your mal sweetie ever DOES try to scarf a whole chicken down without chewing, please take a picture and share, will ya?? What a sight that would be!!
Yuko ,your responses on raw are always better and more detailed than the books..maybe you should write "Barf diet for dummies"
Not to say that anyone here is a "dummie" but if you have looked at all there Books they are pretty easy to read for beginners.
i wish I could print your responses on this thread...Great info
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Beyond eyeballing the poop, are there other signs/symptoms that might alert someone that the meals have not been properly balanced over a period of time?
Amber Morgan Webboard User Reg: 10-18-2006
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Yuko, you are so cool.
Here's my update:
I fed Carbs half of the cornish game hen, and the Corgi got a quarter.
Well, about an hour later: Barf city. I mean it looked like Carbon turned himself inside out. I swear he barfed up more than he ate. This is going to sound strange but I let him eat about half of it. I figured, what's the harm? I only let him have half because I was thinking it was a possibility that maybe he was overloaded. That half he's kept down.
The Corgi, on the other hand...was fine.
So I'm not discouraged at all; I knew this was a possibility. I think maybe I'll fast him (Carbon) tomorrow and then try again the next day. Any thoughts on my little vomit-story?
Can I just say how good it was to watch them eat--crunching and munching. It was worth all of the butchering I had to do to get reasonable portions cut for freezing. The liver...UHG!
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If it makes you feel better, my dog threw up the last 2 times he got Cornish Game Hens. I'm thinking maybe he eats them too fast since the bones are so soft. He got chicken today and nothing happened. And it usually happens 45min-1hour after he eats.
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they aren't vomiting, they are regurgitating and it is normal. they ate too fast. so they regurgitate and re-eat it. feeding frozen helps them slow down and then they don't regurgitate so often.
this is why i feed ben his 1/2 chickens frozen. if for some reason they get defrosted, i keep him quaranteened in the mudroom on some towels. then i pick the mess up on the towel, spill it into a dog bowl, and put him back outside with it. he eats it, and the towel goes in the wash.
of course, when he's outside all day, it's less of a problem. well, there was the evening i was having an outdoor dinner party and he urped and re-ate his chicken right next to my chair. i just looked innocent and nobody seemed to notice!
did take the edge off my own appetite, tho.
as for feeding really large chunks of meat--don't. this is one way a raw-fed dog can wind up with a bloat episode.
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Quote: alice oliver
.... there was the evening i was having an outdoor dinner party and he urped and re-ate his chicken right next to my chair. i just looked innocent and nobody seemed to notice!
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