Hi All!

My wife, Marisa, just got an adorable Jack Russel/Cavalier King Charles mix. Her name is McKenzie. She is about 7 weeks old (I know, too young to leave momma, but that egg's been scrambled already). She's a tiny little thing at 2 lbs.

As many of you know, I have been feeding Cleo and Alex the raw diet for about 7 months now and they are thriving (thanks in large part to you all).

At 70+ lbs., Alex is the smallest dog I have ever owned. I have no clue about small dogs, let alone microscopic ones like "Kenzie."

We are going to switch Kenize to raw only, and I wanted some feedback from you experts.

To get her started, I plan on grinding and mixing together a chicken quarter (skin removed), a chicken liver, a little veggie glop, and some ground beef and a sardine or two. We will feed her a little yogurt with her b-fast portion. I figure this should last her a week or so.

I know the ratios of vitamin E and fish oil for larger dogs, but how does that translate to such a wee little thing? We have 400 IU gel caps of "E" and use Grizzly Salmon oil (the pump kind we order here from Leerburg) and fish oil in 1200 iu caps. How much oil and E should I add to Kenzie's mixture of food?

Also, what do you guys think of my planned "starter" mix for Kenzie?

I look forward to your respones

I'd start (a couple of meals) with just skinned chicken ground up, adding all the rest after you see perfect poops.

OK, here is what I came up with on the fish oil and E without measuring equipment that people don't usually own:

Take the 1200-mg (which is 1.2 grams; fish oil doesn't come in IU) gelcap of oil and squeeze out a sixth of it. The dog gets .20 gram.

On the 400 IU Vitamin E gelcap, I squeezed it all out, drop by drop, and 2 drops was what I wanted. (I wanted a tenth of 100 IU, so I squeezed it out first into 4 equal puddles -- in four teaspoons -- then 1/10 of one puddle was two big drops.)

So I would pierce it, squeeze out two drops, and give the rest to a big dog.

Then I would buy eyedroppers with measurements to make it easier later on and use the liquid fish oil.

thanks connie! you're the best