Congrats Walter. Sounds like you're off to a great start with your little guy and raw feeding. It's really not all that difficult. Don't make it more complicated than it is. Start slowly--like you are doing, add new things gradually, and don't aim for too much variety too quickly. And don't make every meal and every poop a big occasion for anxiety. Your pup doesn't need that. You're doing fine.

Thanks for your all support, so far Junior has been fed chicken back since I got him, and he is doing very well with his food.

Ok, it's been 6 days feeding chicken back to Junior and his poop is always nice and form, my question is can I start adding grizzly salmon oil with vitamin E to Junior yet? After I started adding salmon oil with vitamin E should I wait another week to add let say ground beef in his food?

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Ok, it's been 6 days feeding chicken back to Junior and his poop is always nice and form, my question is can I start adding grizzly salmon oil with vitamin E to Junior yet? After I started adding salmon oil with vitamin E should I wait another week to add let say ground beef in his food?

I would give the salmon oil and E and then just check the poop the next time he goes. Then in a day or two you can start adding the ground beef, starting small, watching poop, increasing it next day. :-)


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From my experience fish oil is not in the category of the most frequent suspects when a raw diet triggers diarrhea. That category includes too-large meals at the beginning, sudden fat (although raw fat is good -- it just often needs to be gradual), organ meats, and canned fish. Those are the items we try to add gradually.

Ok Connie I know what to do now, thanks

Alright, just came back from a vet visit and I am very happy about my vet, why... when he asked me what I feed Junior, I told him I fed him raw diet and he said " GOOD ", I was very suprised he didn't disagree when I said raw diet, PHEW... what a relieve.

So now I got exact weight for Junior, he weight 14kg and before vet visit I weight him on my house hold scale say 35 lbs so I been using this numbers to calcalating his meal portion which is 13oz per meal and three times a day base on 7% of body weight, if I go by the true body weight of Junior's I should feed him around 11oz per meal and three times a day, right? Then again my vet told me Junior's weight is balance to his age, so should I stick with what I been feeding him or should I decrease to 11oz per meal??

In this visit, Junior had his deworm, puppy vaccine and rabies, I know many people do not agree giving rabies before a year old, I did try to talk to my vet not to giving Junior at this time but he convinced me so I just go ahead and I hope I didn't make a wrong decision here. Ok, Junior's next visit will be in July 23, and Junior still need a parvo booster, is this necessory?

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Alright, just came back from a vet visit and I am very happy about my vet, why... when he asked me what I feed Junior, I told him I fed him raw diet and he said " GOOD ", I was very suprised he didn't disagree when I said raw diet, PHEW... what a relieve.

So now I got exact weight for Junior, he weight 14kg and before vet visit I weight him on my house hold scale say 35 lbs so I been using this numbers to calcalating his meal portion which is 13oz per meal and three times a day base on 7% of body weight, if I go by the true body weight of Junior's I should feed him around 11oz per meal and three times a day, right? Then again my vet told me Junior's weight is balance to his age, so should I stick with what I been feeding him or should I decrease to 11oz per meal?? ....

I would go by body condition. You'll know whether to dial back that 4.5 ounces a day or not as you watch his shape. Remember that the 5 to 10% is just a broad guideline, with the real answer depending on the pup's condition.

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... In this visit, Junior had his deworm, puppy vaccine and rabies, I know many people do not agree giving rabies before a year old, I did try to talk to my vet not to giving Junior at this time but he convinced me so I just go ahead and I hope I didn't make a wrong decision here. Ok, Junior's next visit will be in July 23, and Junior still need a parvo booster, is this necessory?

Did he have worms? I'm not a puppy expert, but my own preference is to de-worm when/if there is evidence of worms.

http://www.weim.net/emberweims/Vaccine.html is a well-known minimal-vax protocol.

How old is he again?


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There are many puppy experts here who will give better answers.


Edited by Connie Sutherland (06/08/2010 07:22 PM)
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Junior will turn 4 months old this Friday. How can you tell if there is a worm?

Regarding salmon oil and E, according to the label it said 25-50 lbs need 2 stroke of salmon oil, is that meant each meal or all day samething with E (200 IU)?

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Junior will turn 4 months old this Friday. How can you tell if there is a worm?

Regarding salmon oil and E, according to the label it said 25-50 lbs need 2 stroke of salmon oil, is that meant each meal or all day samething with E (200 IU)?

You might notice it in the poop, and you can also drop off a fecal sample for the vet to check. This was you aren't giving unnecessary meds.

It means for the day; same thing with the E. Did you find some 200 IU of E or are you just squeezing some of the 400 IU onto the food (which is perfectly fine).