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Maxwell I'm triple- superior MAD- now!     Barked: Sun May 19, '13 5:33pm PST  Try a tiny bit mixed with water and see if it agrees with your dog. Many dogs lose the ability to manufacture the enzyme needed to digest dairy and it disagrees with them. Around here yogurt is as expensive as canned dog food though. Guess you would use less of it? This site has a lot of other ideas for fresh food mix ins. http://www.dogaware.com/diet/freshfoods.html my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Maxwell I'm triple- superior MAD- now!     Barked: Sun May 19, '13 5:28pm PST  Try for more boneless meats although heart counts as one. The goal is 10% bone and a chicken is 30% over all and a turkey is about the same so the maximum chicken and turkey should be is half the diet. Definitely enough to start with as we try to start with bony chicken. You don't have a set time for feeding that, feed until the poop becomes regular and firm then start on the next protein, guessing that would be turkey for you. A particular meat might take a few days to weeks to get used to. Don't get all excited by the poop after the first raw meal, that is still kibble poop. It might take a couple days to see if raw is going to be a simple or a complicated transition. Sure hope this diet helps. It helped Max and I thought he was fine and dandy on kibble! A lot of dogs do just fine on bony chicken, beef heart and a couple different livers and kidneys. You have turkey as well, I am sure it will be fine. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Raw Food Diet > What Parts Of A Rabbit Can She Have?

Maxwell I'm triple- superior MAD- now!     Barked: Sun May 19, '13 5:20pm PST  They can eat any part you offer up. I probably wouldn't offer the skin as that is a lot of fur, perhaps strips with a lot of other stuff? You probably don't want the stomach and intestines but the rest is good stuff if they will eat it. Max was a bit iffy on rabbit heads and I had to play with it for a bit before he grabbed it and started chomping. Just add more meat if it is a really bony part like the head or back and it is all good stuff! Of course be sure it is a safe size for your dog and cat. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Raw Food Diet > One myth and one question

Maxwell I'm triple- superior MAD- now!     Barked: Sat May 18, '13 5:11pm PST  My *opinion* on this is a healthy dog is less attractive to pests. Dogs, like most mammals secrete protective oils to limit water loss. Too much harsh shampoo can remove too much oil but it should be easily replaced. Usually not rinsing enough will damage the skin more than removing that oil. Sassy had flea allergy and was the one that collected ticks as well. Her skin was a bit dry and on kibble it stunk. The usual doggy smell it was. That went away on home cooked food and apparently that stink was mostly caused by anal sac secretions that stopped being a bother on fresh food. Max is not attractive to fleas or ticks. Two exceptions. Two summers ago he was having serious ear goo and he did have several fleas killed during a bath so he got flea drops. It turned out sardines were a problem and off sardines no fleas and no ear goo - no more flea drops either. We did have a huge tick issue last summer, had to be 500 adult ticks after a hike. None attached but they sure itched and even after removing most of them we still had to get up in the middle of the night to find more. I don't think dog skin oil is stinky as Max doesn't and never did stink. His fur seems to have plenty of oil in it as it now takes a bit of work to get it wet during baths. Sassy's coat always was far more water repellent, stayed so on home cooked food and still smelled less. No opinion on kibble plus raw other than watch your dogs. If they are handling it then it is fine. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Home Prepared Food & Recipes > Grain free recipies?

Maxwell I'm triple- superior MAD- now!     Barked: Sat May 18, '13 7:23am PST  Hope the raw diet goes better this time. Lots of Dal owners feed raw, not sure what changes they make other than mostly feeding chicken, eggs and pulverized veggies though. It sure would be nice if you had a number to shoot for rather than "purines are bad and liver is high in purines". Phosphorus was bad for Sassy but I had a number and could work a small amount of liver into the amount of phosphorus she was allowed. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Maxwell I'm triple- superior MAD- now!     Barked: Fri May 17, '13 6:47pm PST  Max doesn't get ticks and fleas as a rule so I would choose a collar I could remove rather than using a spot on. Since they are really powerful I don't know if they would work for him. As a young dog he had a few seizures triggered by stress and not very dangerous chemicals but I would still try it as he is okay with spot on flea drops. Here is Gil's page on tick disease. https://sites.google.com/site/tickbornediseaseindogs/ my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Home Prepared Food & Recipes > Diarrhea when switching proteins?

Maxwell I'm triple- superior MAD- now!     Barked: Fri May 17, '13 11:49am PST  The only time I didn't mix the old and new together was when the dogs were sick from a fast food hamburger. Plenty of mess anyway, no point in trying mix the two as clearly the old food wasn't helping the situation at all. I would put him on a limited ingredient diet, one meat and one veggie or starch for stool bulk. Try different amounts of the plant part of the food to see if he responds to more or less fiber. Sassy was quite dainty, no gas ever. She specialized in having overfull anal sacs that needed attention when she was on kibble. Guess that is less worrying than gas and nasty stool if stinky. Homecooked stuff really agreed with her and that nearly ceased to be a problem. Max has had gas and is greatly offended when his gut acts up like that. He will get it if I overfeed him or give too much fat or organ. He will have increasingly soft and frequent stool if I over feed him too. So you might also try feeding less food. If he gets skinny then try feeding more often. Sassy had giant soft stool when I tried to fatten her up by increasing her feed and even vomited extra food when I did the same when I cooked when she was very old but if I fed her 3-5x a day she kept the food down and gained a bit of weight. Her stool on cooked chicken and white rice was nearly as small as raw fed Max's even though she got twice the calories. Both dogs would have early morning bile vomits when they were on kibble if I didn't give them a bedtime snack. I am amazed that I can feed Max once a day and not give him a snack and no more bile vomits! Right diet for this dog I guess. Am glad he is better now and sorry I didn't have the resources to investigate the problem more back then. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > Checking for ticks on big, hairy, black dogs...

Maxwell I'm triple- superior MAD- now!     Barked: Fri May 17, '13 12:27am PST  A metal flea comb caught about 75% of the ticks last June when Max was completely covered with at least 500 but for the usual 3 or 4 it isn't very helpful. Brown ticks show up well in Max's long but not very thick black fur but usually I just give him a really good scritch all over to find ticks after an outing. I had a harder time finding them in Sassy's close fitting very dense short double coat than Max's long fur believe it or not. The tiny deer ticks would be impossible to get with a flea comb or feeling them, really you might consider using tick collars just for the trip and keep them in the freezer tightly wrapped for the next trip. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Raw Food Diet > Cornish Game Hens??

Maxwell I'm triple- superior MAD- now!     Barked: Thu May 16, '13 9:07am PST  After I gave Max fossil poop giving him a whole chicken to eat through I wouldn't do CGH alone but serve a quarter with a lot of boneless meat. CGH are even bonier than whole chicken. Max would chew it up nicely, he can even eat chicken necks safely. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Maxwell I'm triple- superior MAD- now!     Barked: Wed May 15, '13 3:40pm PST  Could the kibble have gone bad? How long has the bag been open? my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

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