Postings by Charlie

(Page 1 of 289: Viewing entries 1 to 10)  
Page Links: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  [Last 10 entry]  

Charlie The world is my- food bowl!     Barked: Tue May 14, '13 8:28am PST  I have a commercial quality meat grinder that my dad found when clearing out an evicted restaurant, and I've only used it once. I really didn't care for it. PROS: + Ground meals are useful for a handful of situations. + Ground meals offer more precise measurements for meals. CONS: - Takes away the dental benefits of raw. - Depletes a few nutrients, so supplementation is needed if it's long term. - Very messy process, lots of clean up and disinfecting. - Spreads surface bacteria. - EXPENSIVE. Mine was free, but worth around $400. Cheaper models cannot grind bones well. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Charlie The world is my- food bowl!     Barked: Tue May 14, '13 8:21am PST  We use Sentinel for flea and heartworm prevention. I know some people are comfortable skipping heartworm preventatives, but I am not. I live in an area that is very muggy and hot in the summer, and I would not take the risk. However, I do not give the preventative in the cold months. From what I understand, heartworm is only a threat when the temperature remains above 57 degrees. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Raw Food Diet > Ticks. natural remedies?

Charlie The world is my- food bowl!     Barked: Mon May 6, '13 7:50am PST  Just wanted to say that there's a huge difference when looking for remedies to a flea infestation vs just prevention. I tried every natural remedy in the book when my dogs had a full blown infestation, and nothing would work. We ended up having to use a dose of Frontline to kill all the little buggers, and THEN use natural prevention. As with natural prevention, I've had luck feeding raw garlic and using a mixture of peppermint/clove oil. I find that the neem oil helps to ease the symptoms of fleas, but isn't as strong as some people say. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Laws & Legislation > PETA

Charlie The world is my- food bowl!     Barked: Mon Feb 4, '13 8:42am PST  PETA doesn't make a lot of sense to me. They promote vegan diets for pets, and then turn around and say that pets are equivalent to human slaves. They say we're murderers for farming animals, but they capture animals and put them to sleep in their own facility. They are against animal testing and pro arson against laboratories, but their vice-president uses a medication only found by animal testing. It's just a giant hypocrisy. PETA hires celebrities to endorse their "cause" and make it look cool, then takes the money from people who don't know any better, and doesn't do any good with it. Honestly, Penn and Teller always tells it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVqS3yYx-7M (WARNING: lots of language) my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Raw Food Diet > Holy baby cow!

Charlie The world is my- food bowl!     Barked: Fri Feb 1, '13 2:08pm PST  I am tremendously jealous! I always wanted a find like this, but there aren't many rural people in my area. Fantastic job keeping that baby from going to waste, and congrats on all the free food! my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Charlie The world is my- food bowl!     Barked: Sun Jan 27, '13 9:51am PST  I apologize if I started making this a pro/anti raw argument. My first and only real issue with the article was the last statement-- which I can't seem to find now since the site appears to be down, but it sounded like the author was advocating high-carb low-protein diets. I just don't think we should take the article as a reason to endorse this or to think that diets suddenly require carbohydrates to work. The people in this forum feed a carnivorous diet and see excellent results. I'm content with the use of testimony as a "study", if the results are always so consistent. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Raw Food Diet > dog study, diet related, different from wolves

Charlie The world is my- food bowl!     Barked: Sat Jan 26, '13 2:44pm PST  Except that dogs don't have the physiology of a carnivore - they have funcitonal taste buds for sweetness, unlike cats and have multiple copies of starch digesting enzymes. They are still biologically classified as carnivores, and still share an almost identical physical digestive structure to other carnivorous mammals. They lack a significant amount of amylase in their saliva (as opposed to humans) and have a vastly shortened intestinal track which is most efficient for meat and animal product. Have you ever fed your dog a vegetable and seen how it exits the other side? My dogs get green beans and sweet potatoes and they come out half digested within 24 hours. If the article does prove that they have adapted over 10,000 years, then I believe it--- for small amounts of grain. And that's the entire argument I'm giving. Again, I don't think grains are detrimental to health unless they are in large amounts. We don't like this article because companies will use it as a way to promote heavy grain diets, and no one should want that. Dogs can handle SOME grain correctly, but the author of the article seems to think that this proves we should feed high-carb/low-protein diets. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Raw Food Diet > dog study, diet related, different from wolves

Charlie The world is my- food bowl!     Barked: Sat Jan 26, '13 1:40pm PST  Adaptation is necessary for all species and all living things when they are living under means, struggling to survive. In this day and age, why is it necessary to continue in that same fashion? We're living in a time where people can afford the "luxuries" of weekly grocery trips and thought out meals. We look down upon people who eat processed junk food their whole lives, and admire those that live healthy lifestyles with healthy diets-- I don't understand why we don't have the same outlook with dogs. @ Mulder: I don't know where the idea came from that people think dogs ate high-carb diets in the past, when their own owners were struggling to survive. Meat by-products were always available and plentiful. Bread was not. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Food & Nutrition > Acana dog food

Charlie The world is my- food bowl!     Barked: Sat Jan 26, '13 12:01pm PST  Excellent food with locally farmed, top notch ingredients. We fed raw for 2 years, but now lack the time to prepare it, so the dogs eat Acana. Their coats are shiny, their skin is healthy, their stool is above average and they stay lean and muscular. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Charlie The world is my- food bowl!     Barked: Fri Jan 25, '13 10:48am PST  I give the dogs cooked and mashed green beans in their dinner sometimes just to bulk up the food without extra calories. They like most veggies . I think Kale is delicious when it's cooked! Just disgusting raw though, haha. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

(Page 1 of 289: Viewing entries 1 to 10)  
Page Links: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  [Last 10 entry]  

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the rapid nature of forum postings, it's quite possible our calculation of the number of ensuing forum posts may be off by one or two or more at any given moment.