Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Thank you everyone! I will def do the baited water! I didn't even tho k of that! I've been hand feedig her some of we meals so she learns to take it gently and that I'm a good source of food, not going to take it away. Other meals I just set it in her crate and leave her be. (Did I mention she has a little food aggression?) anyways ill start doing them all in a bowl so I can add water.
Betty- can I just cook these raw patties for her or will that not work? Have a big bag of it.
You can hand-feed some and then give the remainder with the water over top.
You could give THK with cooked meat added, BTW: not raw, very water-filled, very healthful. Now that Betty says it, I agree about not giving raw .... at least not yet.
"Betty- can I just cook these raw patties for her or will that not work? Have a big bag of it." What raw patties? Bravo brand can be cooked. I can find you those directions. Many do NOT recommend cooking, so please note that I'm talking about Bravo only.
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Tell me the brand of the patties and I'll see if I can find out about cooking possibilities. (Some contain actual bone that is not ground fine enough to be safe when cooked.)
Also, do they say "ALS" or "All Life Stages" or "suitable for puppies"?
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If you end up home-cooking for her for a while, I can give you a couple of balanced fairly simple recipes using ground eggshell for the calcium.
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You learn something new every day.....I have been feeding Bravo blends on & off as a part of my dog's raw diet for 9 years & never knew it could be fed cooked. It makes sense though, as the bone is pretty finely ground. One of my biggest objections to feeding it alone full time except for young pups for it's balance of ingreedents. I know that no matter what, it is far better in all cases then kibble on the teeth & gums.
I think that the dogs teeth & gums do better & get cleaner if they eat & crunch full sized bones. But maybe I'm wrong about that. Although my dogs seem to enjoy the crunching of their meals. But I think it is perfect for young pups or even older & or sick dogs that need that totally perfect diet for healing. Also for dogs with food allergies as you can get exotic meat blends for novel diets or dogs with limited meat variety tollerance.
Natures variety instinct raw is the name. Honest kitchen should be here by Monday. It has feeding directions for low energy or over weight adults, active adults and puppies/lactating so I assumed it was all life stages. Just double checked and it is.
Anne: capone like to crunch his food too!
I did half by hand and half with water for her lunch and she drank up all of the water! Worked very well. I am going to boil some chicken and use the stock for some bait throughout the day.
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.... I did half by hand and half with water for her lunch and she drank up all of the water! Worked very well. I am going to boil some chicken and use the stock for some bait throughout the day.
Excellent!
About the Nature's Variety. Is it called "medallions"?
Kristi, Connie and Anne are better guides than me on this. I don't know about these packaged raw diets.
Sickish pups with bad stool and a history of malnutrition --for a short period, I like boiled meats, so they are germ free -- with diarrhea I like boiled chicken, no skin. Or boiled ground turkey. To add bulk to the food I like boiled rice, not brown rice.
How is the stool?
This is more of an 'aside' comment.
But Nature's Variety uses a process of killing pathogens called
High Pressure Pasteurization ( HPP)
There would be no reason to heat or cook these medallions.
I still think its a bad idea to cook any raw, because the bones can get brittle.
While they wouldn't be sharp shards because they are ground, I personally feel its a bad idea. Just my 2 cents.
The home cooked food with added egg shells would get my vote instead of cooking the raw.
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Oh, and here's a paragraph I had saved from a Bravo Q&A sheet. It did not generally recommend it, but said that if an individual animal required non-raw food, then:
"Heat and serve: While not recommended with many commercial raw foods, Bravo! Balance Raw Diet Burgers can be lightly cooked because of the fine grinding of the ingredients - almost mimicking pre-digestion. To lightly cook, place a Balance Burger in a pan with a small amount of no-salt butter or water. Heat only to discolor either side, leaving the center pink. This brings out the flavors and warms to an enticing temperature. Do Not Microwave."
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