Peggy Bayer Webboard User Reg: 01-20-2012
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Well, Rajah will be ready to come home in 3 weeks and I need to decide on what food to feed him. I am thinking of the Honest Kitchen Embark and then I can add meaty bones to keep his teeth clean and the other benefits.
I am trying to figure out the cost and if Embark is the right one for him? Figure he will grow to be 20lbs, I am thinking that it will keep the cost down.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Well, Rajah will be ready to come home in 3 weeks and I need to decide on what food to feed him. I am thinking of the Honest Kitchen Embark and then I can add meaty bones to keep his teeth clean and the other benefits.
I am trying to figure out the cost and if Embark is the right one for him? Figure he will grow to be 20lbs, I am thinking that it will keep the cost down.
Thanks
Embark would be the one I would choose. As I recall, there are two or three THK choices that are recommended for growing puppies, and Embark in definitely one of them.
My personal opinion is that a growing puppy is probably not the best dog for a first-time raw feeder to learn about raw feeding with unless great care is taken to follow a good book (like this one http://leerburg.com/935.htm ) and/or the Leerburg puppy diet ( http://leerburg.com/feedpups.htm ).
But THK can provide a balanced diet very easily, while still giving the benefits of RMBs.
I think it's a great bridge to raw for any age dog (and the link above covers transitioning), too.
Ben McDonald Webboard User Reg: 05-25-2011
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I couldn't get either of my dogs to eat honest kitchen. They would sniff it, and look at me like I was trying to poison them.
I even made them skip a meal before we tried a batch, still nothing.
Also, just so you know, there is no problem with a mixed gradual change to accustom a suspicious dog to the new taste and texture. There is no danger from pathogens that there can be from mixing kibble with raw.
I've met three dogs who hated THK at first bite. All three were fine after it was gradually increased from a tiny sauce to a side dish to the full meal, and the two who I still know now salivate while they wait for it to rehydrate. lol
I started with a tiny thin "sauce" over the accustomed food. I took my time with it, because I wanted it to be beloved before a car trip, when I planned to give THK with RMBs. All went well. I allowed a week to accustom them to it, and it didn't take that long.
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I would caution you to get the dogs used to it first ... not on Day One of a trip to the woods. My dogs love it -- they salivate while it's rehydrating -- but they all viewed it very suspiciously when they first encountered it. I introduced it gradually to bowls of "normal" raw.
My dogs love THK and took to it right away, but they both LOVE food.
I am very, very happy with the food. I have a dog with a super sensitive digestive tract that didn't do well on raw alone but does great with a 50/50 mix of raw THK.
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I even get the spendy line-caught white-fish one, http://leerburg.com/zeal.htm , although I share with someone else and I piece it out, keeping it carefully closed in between.
To me, that ingredient list is worth the price, even for the occasional meal (or more frequent "side"). My dog who throws up when he eats any more fish than one sardine does great with Zeal.
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