I noticed the other day while shopping fish in the meat dept. scales and all. I was wondering if any of you have fed your dogs fresh fish like this. Did you have any adverse affects? My dogs(3-3 year olds who are fed raw) eat salmon about once a week right now, but I am thinking of getting them some other types of fish and wondered what you guys thought of feeding dogs fish, with scales and heads? anything I should look out for?
Thanks sharon
No special precautions necessary. They can eat the whole thing. The only thing I've ever done was remove some fins. Those suckers are sharp and I'm a wuss.
Some dogs don't care for fish, so don't buy a ton at first.
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Sharon,
Fish can be a great food for dogs. One thing to be careful with is feeding raw salmon- and maybe other fish as well. There is a bacteria in some wild salmon that can make a dog very sick (possibly deadly) if it is ingested by a dog. Especially if the salmon was wild-caught in the northwest. My roommate's dog once got very ill from eating just a bit of raw salmon skin.
So other than being aware of this, I think fish is a great protein and fat source for dogs. I plan to feed my dogs a lot of (cooked) pink ('chum' or 'dog') salmon once I get to Alaska. Many sled dogs thrive on it.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Sharon,
Fish can be a great food for dogs. One thing to be careful with is feeding raw salmon- and maybe other fish as well. .... Especially if the salmon was wild-caught in the northwest. My roommate's dog once got very ill from eating just a bit of raw salmon skin.
Ditto -- meaning all raw salmonids from west of the Cascade range.
That for me would encompass all raw salmon, period, if I didn't know the geography of its past.
Cooking kills the parasite called Nanophyetus salmincola and the organism that it can be infected with (which is the problem) called Neorickettsia helminthoeca.
Canned, of course, is not raw, and is safe from salmon poisoning (a dog, not human, danger).
Thanks for telling me that info, I never knew that the salmon had to be cooked for dogs, Yikes!!! will cook it from now on. At costco they have whole fish, head, skin, fins, so we will try it and see how they like it.
Also, I was looking at orijen dog food and noticed all the herbs they include their feed.
At this time I would prefer to feed my dogs raw but was wondering what herbs do you feel dogs should have included in their diet. I would like to provide my pups with the best meals possible. I am trying to build my dog Cody up, if you remember he almost died this last year and I want the best I can feed him for him.
Any suggestions? (they do not know what could have gotten to him, no poisons, in hospital 4 day, hemorraged 2 days, ended up with vasculitus, flesh from his stomach to chest area fell off. Now he is completely healed on the outside but I realize that must have taken a horrible toll on his body)
thanks for the suggestions and help. I am new to this and trying to learn all I can.
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.... I never knew that the salmon had to be cooked for dogs...
Not exactly .... Pacific Northwest salmon and salmonids (fish that swim upstream to spawn) from the area roughly west of the Cascades can't be fed raw to dogs.
That leaves a lot of raw salmon. But if I wasn't sure of the source, I would avoid raw salmon, period.
I started mixing Chicken of the Sea canned salmon with Louie's kibbles and he LOVES (as much as a low food drive dog can love) it. He eats more in general when we mix in salmon vs tuna or sardines. He is definitely a seafood lover.
The canned salmon is much cheaper than raw salmon and especially if they're on sale.
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Yes, it's actually sometimes a dollar! Seriously! My sister on the East Coast gets it at a Dollar Store every few months, big end-cap display, a dollar! Best of all is that it's often the kind with bones left in (soft pressure-canned bones) ...
And sometimes the discount drugstores here have it for around a dollar, too.
(It's something to start slow because of the diarrhea trigger if given too much too soon .... )
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