Lisa skinner Webboard User Reg: 03-11-2010
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I've heard that about mixing raw and kibble, but I guess I just got lucky and never had a problem before.
and I just went today looking at the treat dispensing toys. I wanted to ask if that could cause housetraining issues since it looks more like grazing than an actual meal. Maybe I'm wrong. I just always heard that if you scheduled when food went in the dog, you know when it should come out of the dog. Grazing on a food dispenser would interfere with scheduling potty times, wouldn't it? He is only 12 weeks old today.
Thanks for all the replies. I really appreciate it.
Ben McDonald Webboard User Reg: 05-25-2011
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Quote: Lisa skinner
I've heard that about mixing raw and kibble, but I guess I just got lucky and never had a problem before.
and I just went today looking at the treat dispensing toys. I wanted to ask if that could cause housetraining issues since it looks more like grazing than an actual meal. Maybe I'm wrong. I just always heard that if you scheduled when food went in the dog, you know when it should come out of the dog. Grazing on a food dispenser would interfere with scheduling potty times, wouldn't it? He is only 12 weeks old today.
Thanks for all the replies. I really appreciate it.
Food dispensing toys are great if they're eating at a normal rate, if they take a long time to get the food out of the toy then it's a bad idea imo. Especially for pups being housetrained. You can get a slow feeder bowl, the bowl is designed so that they can't chow it down all at once.
Don't ever mix raw and dry kibble, very bad idea, and not a good habit to get into. I've also noticed that porous material bowls (plastic , ceramic) harbor bacteria alot more then glass or stainless steel bowls. If your feeding any type of raw you should be using one of those, stainless steel is obviously the better choice. Then again, some people don't use bowls when they feed raw.
Lisa skinner Webboard User Reg: 03-11-2010
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Thank you, Ben. I will rethink the mixing of the two types of food.
I do feed only in stainless steel bowls and they go in the dishwasher every single night, along with all the parrots' bowls, we even sometimes have room for ours. lol
The breeder I got my GSD from had me mixing the two, so I just did it for everybody and they adjusted quite well.
I was doing the whole raw thing exclusively for a while, but finances got in the way. I don't want to work so many extra shifts to cover the cost of food that I don't have time to enjoy the dogs. Since they seemed to be doing well, I thought I was compromising in an acceptable way. I will work on it, what's being said does make a lot of sense.
Weird pup hasn't missed a meal since I started feeding it dry - go figure. He even ate some junk food treats yesterday.
Also, I know many folks here already know my own very negative feeling about raw mixed with kibble, so I'll paste most of a post from someone whose dog was one of the ones whose kibble slowed the passage of what must've been a particularly pathogen-heavy raw meal:
Quote: Aaron Myracle
My stance on this issue. It's your dog.
What happened with my dog?
I fed Innova EVO and Timberwolf Organics (high-end, quality kibbles) and raw .....
I almost lost my dog.
As in, laying on her side in the pouring rain, projectile vomiting, unable to walk.
Kibble is digested slower. It slows down the passage of raw food through the digestive tract.
At some point, that raw food is gonna hang out too long, and make a dog very sick. It may happen in the first week, the first month, the first year... it may not happen at all with this dog. Maybe the next dog.
Just like everyone who smokes cigarettes doesn't die of cancer.
But, its a very real risk you are taking ....
When the Vet explained how and why Danke had gotten sick .... made the decision to feed only Raw. ......
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