What food do you usualy serve to your dogs ?

I just wanted to bump this thread after a trip to my vet. We took advantage of a brief break in the weather yesterday to take Lilly in for her rabies shot, and my vet could not believe she was the same dog. She kept looking at her chart and saying "This is Lilly?" like she couldn't believe it either.
This is the same dog that could barely walk a couple of months ago. I truly thought her next vet trip would be her last at the time.

I've been feeding her raw meat for only a couple of months now, and the change in her is un-freakin-believable. She's all bouncy and playful again, her coat feels like fluffy silk, and she doesn't smell "sick" anymore. She jumped into the truck, which she was not able to do before we changed her diet, and she acts like a puppy in the snow. :)

What's even more amazing is that the "fatty lumps" on her sides are all but gone! You can barely feel a tiny lump where there used to be growths the size of golf balls.

I could tell my vet was humoring me on the "all meat" diet at first...an old lady grasping at straws to save an old dog kinda thing. Now however, we have her attention. I took her about 75 pages of data on the raw meat diet for dogs, and that had little effect, but seeing Lilly bouncing all over her waiting room has made her a convert I think.

I will NEVER feed a dog commercial food again!!!!
 
Wow, that's great to hear Guardian.
It really is interesting (for the lack of a better word) how on earth we came to believe that processed food was better for both humans and animals then natural sources.

Here's to a continued state of growing health for Lilly :)
 
I feed my girls a combo. High-quality kibble but with something mixed, either beef or bacon or chicken or fish. Sometimes they get only mince or chix, etc. I dont think there is more than 2 or so days in all these years that they've had a meal that was strictly kibble, going on 4-years now. and they get ham hocks and other bones to chew from time to time. I avoid all corn and gluten in the kibble selection.
 
We fed our dog, Odie, a beautiful English Shorthaired Pointer IAMS regular Adult formula. On Sunday morning I would make a 3 egg omelette with bits of either ham or bacon and a little cheese and split it with him. If I put spinach in the omlette, he would pick it out. He did not like vegetables.

Odie lived 18-20 years and passed away in his sleep on July 12, 2010.

The vet said when we got him 15 years ago (he was a throw away/about to be taken to a kill shelter) that he was at least 4-5 years old.

My heart still aches at the loss of his presence. He was the smartest and most sensitive entity I have ever had the privilege to live with.

When my grand daughter came over after his passing, she asked to see the box that contained his urn (I have not unsealed the box or urn). She then asked to hold it and hugged it to her chest saying, "I love you Odie and we'll see you when we get to heaven". :cry:

He could spell v.e.t. (would run and hide), b.a.t.h. (would run and jump in the tub) and w.a.l.k. Would go to the drawer where his leash was kept. If it was cold outside he would point to the drawer where his coat was kept.

One day we came home from work and he had thrown up on the floor right in front of the upstairs toilet. The toilet lid had been shut. If it had been open, my guess is he would have thrown up in the toilet.

He was quite sensitive, if you cracked a joke at his expense, he would pout. I talked to him a lot so maybe he learned more English than most dogs. But, darn, he was smart and I sure miss him.


He was in good health up until the end.
 
Semas, thank you for your input.

Odie had fatty lumps all over his body and our vet said, well he's 18-20 what do you expect?

If we get another dog, I think I am going to cook him/her chicken and rice with veggies (hopefully he/she will eat veggies, Odie wouldn't).
 
My brother owned a butcher shop and one of his customers was a guy who raised purebred black labs. He used cow organ meats, mechanically de-boned chicken and meat sawdust from the shop's bandsaw. He would run everything through a meat grinder into 5lb bags and freeze it.
Prior to giving it to his dogs, the breeder would leave it out in the sun for a couple of days to rot, then mix cooked carrots with it, and feed them. This guy had award winning pooches and, as far as I know, never deviated from this feeding protocol. Other than the cooked carrots, they never had any other vegetables or grains.
 
Thank you for sharing your story about Odie. What a sweet smart dog he was!!



The Water Bearer said:
We fed our dog, Odie, a beautiful English Shorthaired Pointer IAMS regular Adult formula. On Sunday morning I would make a 3 egg omelette with bits of either ham or bacon and a little cheese and split it with him. If I put spinach in the omlette, he would pick it out. He did not like vegetables.

Odie lived 18-20 years and passed away in his sleep on July 12, 2010.

The vet said when we got him 15 years ago (he was a throw away/about to be taken to a kill shelter) that he was at least 4-5 years old.

My heart still aches at the loss of his presence. He was the smartest and most sensitive entity I have ever had the privilege to live with.

When my grand daughter came over after his passing, she asked to see the box that contained his urn (I have not unsealed the box or urn). She then asked to hold it and hugged it to her chest saying, "I love you Odie and we'll see you when we get to heaven". :cry:

He could spell v.e.t. (would run and hide), b.a.t.h. (would run and jump in the tub) and w.a.l.k. Would go to the drawer where his leash was kept. If it was cold outside he would point to the drawer where his coat was kept.

One day we came home from work and he had thrown up on the floor right in front of the upstairs toilet. The toilet lid had been shut. If it had been open, my guess is he would have thrown up in the toilet.

He was quite sensitive, if you cracked a joke at his expense, he would pout. I talked to him a lot so maybe he learned more English than most dogs. But, darn, he was smart and I sure miss him.


He was in good health up until the end.
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We do not have dogs, but my friend has a large dog. Her previous dog, also a large one, died early of cancer, and she really researched natural and raw food options for pets before getting another puppy. Her dog eats, if I remember correctly, something raw (organ meat?) and ground with a bit of oatmeal mixed in, and a half of a raw chicken, bones and all, for a second meal. Her dog is almost fully grown now, he is in great health. What's amazing is that he has no smell/body odor at all, his teeth are white and in perfect shape even though he never got them cleaned, and his bowel movements are unusually tiny for dog his size.
 
The Water Bearer said:
If we get another dog, I think I am going to cook him/her chicken and rice with veggies (hopefully he/she will eat veggies, Odie wouldn't).
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Just fyi, Water Bearer, you may want to read the post and links by shellycheval on the previous page.


shellycheval said:
NO veggies, NO fruit. Dogs cannot digest vegetables or fruits; they lack the enzyme necessary to break down cellulose. Look at cows: they have the enzyme, and they still need four stomachs and they have to eat the cellulose twice. Dogs have one stomach and a straight-and-simple digestive tract. So fruit tastes good, but it’s nutritionally null for your dog.
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Again, Thank you Black Swan - no fruit or veggies. I'm going right over to read

I'm telling you, Odie would meticulously pick out every single little bit of spinach.

The only reason he got lumps and bumps (vet would extract and microscope them - non cancerous) is because we had our lawn treated for weeds for about three years.

Now we DO NOT ALLOW ANY LAWN SERVICE, PESTICIDES OR WEED KILLERS anywhere near our front or back yard.

I really believe the lawn service is what gave Odie what the vet called fatty tumors.

Odie was not fat at all, he was lean at 72 pounds (big boy, past my knee and my inseam is 29").

IAMS seemed to be a good food for him. The vet said his blood work was excellent.

We weren't going to get another dog, but I'm looking to rescue another Shorthaired Pointer, maybe a older one (5-6 years).

Guardian's Lilly seems to be doing well on raw meat but what about mad cow, bacteria or other stuff??? :huh: Seems logical though, raw meat is what a dog (descendant of wolves) would naturally eat. Makes sense.

When I would get the turkey out of the frig on Thanksgiving, (raw) Odie would "talk", jump, act like a wolf wanting it. If he thought he could have wrestled me for it he might have tried. The smell of raw turkey (and beef) drove him nuts :Lil:

His eyes were the color of a golden amber. It's Sunday, today again, I made myself a one egg omelet. My husband quietly put his bowls and bed down in the storage room the other day. :cry:

Thank you to everyone for the many posts. Now, with the various opinions, what are/were the ages of your dogs?
 
Guardian said:
I just wanted to bump this thread after a trip to my vet. We took advantage of a brief break in the weather yesterday to take Lilly in for her rabies shot, and my vet could not believe she was the same dog. She kept looking at her chart and saying "This is Lilly?" like she couldn't believe it either.
This is the same dog that could barely walk a couple of months ago. I truly thought her next vet trip would be her last at the time.

I've been feeding her raw meat for only a couple of months now, and the change in her is un-freakin-believable. She's all bouncy and playful again, her coat feels like fluffy silk, and she doesn't smell "sick" anymore. She jumped into the truck, which she was not able to do before we changed her diet, and she acts like a puppy in the snow. :)

What's even more amazing is that the "fatty lumps" on her sides are all but gone! You can barely feel a tiny lump where there used to be growths the size of golf balls.

I could tell my vet was humoring me on the "all meat" diet at first...an old lady grasping at straws to save an old dog kinda thing. Now however, we have her attention. I took her about 75 pages of data on the raw meat diet for dogs, and that had little effect, but seeing Lilly bouncing all over her waiting room has made her a convert I think.

I will NEVER feed a dog commercial food again!!!!
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That's great to hear Guardian. What kind of meat have you been feeding her?
 
Commercial dog food will make your dog sick over the long run - no question about it. It's a parallel to humans eating processed food. My doggie eats hamburger (rare or raw) and/or chicken on occasion, sometimes fish and she's around 12 and in perfect health, despite a very abusive and malnourished first 6 years before she found me.
 
Hey all, just wanted to say thanks for the input and thoughts you've contributed here.

Our Lady hasn't been doing so hot the last few months. She's about 2 years old, rescue pitbull that my neighbor saved offa death row. She's actually very sweet, but a little hyperactive and she's been having some skin problems. Redness/swelling around one of her ears, and little red bumps showing up between her thighs on her lower belly. My neighbor, we'll call him J, has been feeding her a high quality commercial dogfood and table scraps. I checked the label outta curiosity last week and it was full of corn, corn byproducts, animal fats and wheat products.

J has a goofy acceptance of my thoughts on gluten and dairy. He eats both and is 'fine', I got him to let me take over her diet planning, so I'm doing an experiment for a few weeks to see if feeding her high protein, meat only diet.

Was reading about the raw-meaty bones diet and that sounded interesting, but I'm kinda concerned about her choking on a bone shard. She's not exactly known for chewing her food, but granted she's a big pit with a huge mouth, and very strong jaws/teeth. I think I'll stick to the all meat diet and see how she does. I'm gonna check out a butcher and see what offal and other bits I can get for her.

Thanks again. Thoughts appreciated, as always. :rockon:
 
Guardian said:
We took advantage of a brief break in the weather yesterday to take Lilly in for her rabies shot,
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Hi Guardian,
Given the health issues of your dog ( I am presuming this is the same one whose lab results I saw) giving the rabies shots or any vaccines for that matter is very bad idea.
I am also presuming this dog had at least several rabies shots until now and she doesn't really need any more, what most vets don't tell you ( some of them really don't know because they never bothered to check) is that immunity from one rabies vaccine lasts at lasts 5 - 6 years, possibly even more.
Rabies vaccine is one of the most aggressive vaccines in existence, and if you don't have other option but to give it because of legal requirement
make sure to give her Homeopathic preparation of Thuja 30c once a day three days before and three days after the injection and then keep your fingers crossed.
Even if I am too late with this advice and you 've already given her vaccine Thuja can still help.
FWIW
 
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