Grapesoda

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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trevesty

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.

Grapesoda

LINK PLS... my guy seems allergic to kibble. going with rice and chicken, seeing the vet next week. I know of a guy, a breeder, that feeds only raw chicken to the dogs. I have an OEM, 13 months, possibly 180-185 lbs

vdbucks

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.

Grapesoda

I was told dogs can eat raw chicken bones

trevesty

"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.

trevesty

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.

vdbucks

raw bones, yes. cooked bones, no.

Grapesoda

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?)

Grapesoda

aokay

baddog

Exactly.

trevesty

Yeah, it's not cheap. You're pretty much getting the organic, grass fed, free range blah blah blah version of dog kibble.

My wife and I often joke that our dogs eat better than we do.

trevesty

Hope your doggo gets better btw. Zeroing in on allergies and watching them be uncomfortable is a shitty process.

fastball

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.

SilentBean

My schnauzer gets raw chicken.