Re: OT: major cat/dog food recall!

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:22:35 -0500, Dana Carpender <dcarpend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Karen wrote:

Dana Carpender <dcarpend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Aisling Willow Grey wrote:


On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:55:47 -0400, cyndiann wrote

(in article <op.tps74m1siunudf@s3e5c3>):


My suggestion to all of you is to stop feeding commercial food altogether and look into a species appropriate diet of real meat. That is what I feed. Carnivores can't process carbs of any kind. They don't do well with dairy products either. <<


True about the carbs, but my understanding (from forward thinking animal health professionals) is that just feeding your cats tuna, or meat of some kind (the raw meat plan), isn't enough.

No -- they need bones, cartilage, organ meats, basically all the parts of the animal. Well, maybe not toenails and hair, as witness the tendency to gerf these items up on my carpet.

Dana
I came across a web site that promotes raw diets and had photos of
satisfied "customers" (aka dogs of different breeds and sizes) ripping
apart such things as half chickens, sheep lungs, calf liver, etc. It
was rather off-putting even though I realize this is what a canine
would do in the wild. I guess *I* am just too domesticated.



Eh, my dogs primarily eat chicken backs -- they have meat, bone, skin, cartilage and sinew, and marrow. I buy them packs of chicken gizzards and hearts when they go on sale, and give them chicken livers from time to time. But it's all the same sort of stuff you'd have in your kitchen if you eat chicken. Unless you're the sort of person who buys all your chicken boneless and skinless, because you find chicken on the bone off-puttingly anatomical. Or, of course, if you're a vegetarian.

Dana

If you want to sucessfully feed raw you have to feed as many different kinds of meats and as many different cuts as you can. Chicken backs are too much bone by itself. I feed leg quarters and breasts. Chicken doesn't have enough zinc for dogs. Red meat does.

I feed beef, pork, chicken, turkey, lamb, goat and fish. I feed green tripe, beef heart and liver and kidney. I feed mackeral and salmon. The only thing I supplement is fish oil and I add vit E because the fish oil depletes it.

Sorry for the late reply. My newsgroup server has been down several days.

I'm glad to see other rawfeeders on here. It's not an exact science so there are a lot of methods used out there.
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