* throws out the lil container of lams fat and hes to the butcher again * dam vet / smack

I wouldn't throw it out. If your dogs have been eating this fat with no problem, just finish it off.

But I don't really see any need to cook it (I'd rather you didn't). Just cut up the heart into pug-size bites with flesh and fat and feed it raw. Heart meat is a perfectly fine food. But it's not enough for an entire raw diet. As mentioned in the other thread, a raw diet must include edible raw bone.

If you are wanting to feed an all-raw diet we can coach you through it. (I'm sorry, I'm unclear if you are attempting feeding raw already, or just starting, or what.)

If you're just supplementing a kibble diet with bits of "real" food, that's fine too, as long as the preponderance of the diet is coming from a decent kibble that will provide the nutritional balance. You could even use small pieces of items like this lamb heart as high-value training treats.

I have been feeding * a* raw food for all my pets for years.. jsut never seen this structred one.. i was given recepies years ago but that was for shepards and Gdanes.. trying to adapt it to the lil ones. Was just lookngi at the container of fat and it doesnt say cooked or not cooked... it does say to give 2g per kilo weight. that seems liek a horrible amoount .. i only scrape off a tiny bit and put it in thie foods.. and YES PLEASE i would LOVE some help with this food.. the moaunt of food im feeding them now ( per vet recomendation) is scanadlus .. rocky gets 120g per day and ginger gets aobut 500G (nursing mommy) ..


but this isnt my thread so ill go back to my corner now

There's no difference between feeding a Great Dane or a Pug except quantity--and to scale the edible bones to what the dog is able to consume.

In a nutshell: about half the diet should consist of "raw meaty bones" (RMB)--meaning bone-in hunks of carcass that the dog can consume entirely. The other half is boneless meat, organ meat, vegetable matter and supplements.

Dogs eating this kind of diet will typically eat about 2 percent of their ideal body weight I'm food per day.

Lots of info at the links Connie provided, as well as in past threads in the raw feeding forum.

Just wanted to give a quick update.

I switched Rocky to raw and he is lovin' it, no more picky eating.

I had to get him a new crate (broke out from the last one three times), and reinforced the sides with plastic straps + clips on the front. I got him a bark collar from PetSmart (it'll be returned when the Tri-Tronics gets here) to keep him quiet in his crate because he was literally barking so much I was afraid he was going to have a heart attack, but he's pretty calm in his crate now, the collar isn't amazing but it works until I can get his better one in the mail. The "trainer" (who is extremely obnoxious, I'll have you know) pestered me about not trying a citronella collar first, so I had to remind her who was actually paying for it, plus the fact that I never asked her for her advice. She also told me to get him off the prong and put him on a gentle leader, oh how funny those trainers are.

He's good on walks, doesn't pull anymore and walks right beside me. We had a little mishap the other morning when someone was playing "fetch" with their Golden Retriever, off leash and with no collar. We got near the field they were playing in and the dog bolted for us and paid no attention to his owner, so I had to kick the dog away when he growled at us, you would think that if you have no recall you wouldn't play off leash, but.. whatever.

We go to the vet this morning just to make sure everything is working ship shape!