I'm in the process of switching to raw, right now I'm dropping the meat into an instapot for 6 min first, considering full raw, thoughts? Experience? tanks...
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My almost 13yo male GSD survived on chicken quarters & organs for about 6 months when he was a young man. Now we give him a cornish hen as a "treat" about once a month, but mostly freeze dried raw with his Orijen now.Comment
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Raw meat is better than cooked, actually. Dogs aren't humans, after all.
Also, never give your dog cooked (baked, boiled, etc) bones... the way bones are cooked at home is NOT the same as those being sold in pets stores.Comment
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"Kibble" is pretty broad. Some companies actually just use deboned meat (chicken, lamb, beef, whatever) in the process whereas other "chicken and rice" formulas are just some weird "extract" but they can still technically label it as chicken and rice.
https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcos...l-dry-dog-food
Orijen and their sister company (can't remember the name for the life of me) can actually trace exactly where all their products come from. IIRC, they get all of their poultry from a couple local (to them) operations. They're more strict about this than many human centric food brands.
But yes, chicken quarters + organs is pretty okay for dogs, especially working dogs. They won't get ALL the vitamins, etc., they need but they're getting most.
Yes, the marrow especially inside of them is very good for their health. Cooked bones will splinter and choke them to death almost certainly. The raw bones don't do that.Comment
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Ah. Our female GSD (in my avatar) - she got blood cancer recently and we had to let her go over the rainbow bridge, but anyway - she had allergies to something in most kibbles, even a lot of the otherwise good stuff. We couldn't quite pinpoint it with the vet, but we assumed it was some additive most companies use.
When we switched everyone to Orijen, those allergies disappeared.Comment
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Thanks, Jerry lee has had the squirts for a year, I've tried everything, many tests, even filtered water. Chicken and rice is the best so far, cooked chicken. I'm trying to get the change over worked out. I'll look into the products you have suggested, thanks.
(wow more than twice as much as reg kibble, and the freeze dried raw?)Comment
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Hope your doggo gets better btw. Zeroing in on allergies and watching them be uncomfortable is a shitty process.Comment
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I have a cat that is 12 years old and a 7 year old dog that have never eaten cooked food. Only raw turkey. I had an 18 year old cat that lived a long life only eating raw turkey. It is expensive but damn it works well.Comment
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My schnauzer gets raw chicken.Comment
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