Feeding Raw - Where to Start?

sirilucky · 07-08-2009, 09:19 AM

Here is the link of the site which tell us about why you should feed pets raw food.
http://www.rawfoodlife.com/Raw_Pets/raw_pets.htm

FEDACE · 09-11-2009, 10:22 PM

What are the Pros and Cons of raw food ??? i know it is highly recommended but there has to be some disadvantages. It can be messy, i suppose or you may not be so sure what to feed and how much. Online mailorder people sells things like Raw Buffolo meat with bone, and Raw chicken leg and so on. They are pretty expensive,,,, not sure if it is worth all the trouble....

Kathyy · 09-12-2009, 02:21 AM

YOU choose which meats to buy. Just stick to a budget and it works out fine. Keep buffalo in mind and some day it may come down in price and then you will buy it. I wish for rabbit, some day it will be affordable. I got my freezer and Max is in love with the ostrich trim and tripe that is affordable when a whole box is purchased.

Raw takes a lot of study to start up. Raw takes a lot of shopping. Raw takes a lot of freezer room as you need to keep some variety at hand to save money.

I haven't found raw to be messy and during the course of my learning about raw figured out how much and what to feed.

Max was fine on kibble, fine on home cooked but is very much best on raw. Keep on reading, maybe someday you will be ready to try it out. No hurry.

SunnyPaw · 10-01-2009, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by sirilucky

I found a site in google that helps dispelling some of the many myths about dogs, wolves, and feeding raw meaty bones to our pets. And here is the site
http://www.rawfed.com/myths/

Hope this helps most of us.

FYI - Sirilucky - that link doesn't work. I even tried the root (just rawfed.com), and that did not come up either. Maybe they are having server issues?

crazzycat · 10-08-2009, 04:59 AM

Thanks for all your tips, very useful thread

Kathyy · 10-08-2009, 02:12 PM

I got the main page through the wayback machine and you can go to the myths page from there.http://web.archive.org/web/200710111...://rawfed.com/

nash · 10-10-2009, 03:51 PM

Could some one tell me is there a right time to start letin your dog chew on raw bones from the butcher i have a 7 month old lab and Butcher says we can have bones anytime ???

filkertus · 10-12-2009, 10:05 PM

here is good intro article on BARF diets

http://www.fidodogtreats.com/did-you-say-barf

LynnInTenn · 10-13-2009, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by nash

Could some one tell me is there a right time to start letin your dog chew on raw bones from the butcher i have a 7 month old lab and Butcher says we can have bones anytime ???

Now is fine. I wouldn't give him weight bearing bones of large animals, ie, cows,pigs. They could break his/her teeth.