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We feed our dogs on a species-appropriate diet of raw meaty
bones, raw meat, raw vegetable, and supplements. This diet is a combination
of the diets presented in Ian Billinghurst's books, Give Your Dog a Bone
and Grow Your Puppies with Bones; and in Kymythy Schultze's book,
The Ultimate Diet : Natural Nutrition for Dogs and Cats. Other good
books that you may find useful are: Tom Lonsdale’s books, Raw Meaty Bones
and Work Wonders: Feed Your Dog Raw Meaty Bones. An excellent book if
you are just switching to the diet is:
Carina Beth
MacDonald, Raw Dog Food.
Most of these
books are available from several sellers on the Internet, including
www.amazon.com and
www.dogwise.com. You can often get good buys on these books used at
www.half.com or search
www.bestbookbuys.com for the book you are interested in.
According
to Marion Patricia Connolly, Executive Director/Curator, Price-Pottenger
Nutrition Foundation, "Providing species-appropriate nutrition for our
companion animals through raw carnivore foods helps them flourish as nature
intended, even in modern households. [The books mentioned above] provide a
helpful how-to guide for pet owners and a valuable compendium of important
nutritional information. . . on the benefits of raw versus cooked food for
animals. As Dr. Pottenger demonstrated in the 1930's, the response from pets
manifested in health, vitality, personality, intelligence and companionship,
is a rich reward for the small amount of time and effort needed to provide
them a natural diet that meets their complete nutritional needs. [A raw
carnivore diet] offers pet owners and their treasured companion animals the
opportunity to realize these benefits."
TYPICAL
DAILY DIET
| Morning: |
I feed each 50 pound dog
about 1/4 to 1/2 cup mush once a day with raw meaty bones |
NEVER EVER feed cooked
meaty bones. Cooked bones splinter and can cause punctures to your dog's system. Do
not feed too much cooked meats: the enzymes are killed and the cooked fats are not what
your dog needs.
DO NOT defrost meat or Mush in the microwave: It will kill the enzymes in
the raw food that your dog needs. |
| Recreation (any time): |
Marrow or knuckle bones. |
| Evening: |
Raw meaty bones |
Veggie-Ground
Meat Mush
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12 pounds of raw ground meat – (beef, turkey, pork, emu,
venison, etc. depending on what is available and what we used the last
time we made mush)
To this, add:
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1 to 2
pounds: veggies, pulverized (we use a VitaMix): veggies typically
include collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, etc. Avocados
if overripe. Fruit that I have on hand.
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8 - 12
eggs, raw, shell and all, pulverized in the VitaMix with the greens
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5 to 6
tablespoons alfalfa powder (optional)
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5 to 6
tablespoons kelp or seameal
(optional)
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16
ounces plain yoghurt (White Mountain brand)
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1
heaping tablespoon crushed garlic
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Raw
apple cider vinegar, enough to make it possible to pulverize the
veggies in the VitaMix or food processor
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Any leftovers like
cooked rice, potatoes, winter squashes, cooked meat that happen to be
in the fridge
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1 pound or more of
ground liver (beef, pork, emu, venison, turkey, chicken)
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1 pound
or more of ground pork or beef kidney or turkey or chicken giblets
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This recipe makes enough to feed three adult Airedales
for four to six weeks with up to ¼ cup at one meal a day five times a
week. Freeze in containers; once defrosted, it will keep up to five
days in the fridge. Never defrost in the microwave.
If your dog has runny stools, add a probiotic to this
meal until the bowels have the hard consistency of a barf-fed dog.
Bowels should not be runny on this diet and your dog should not need a
probiotic once it is accustomed to the diet. If the stools continue to
be runny, you may be feeding too much muscle meat in proportion to bone.
Ease back on the quantity of mush.
If your dog has unexplained runny stools, she may have a
gastrointestinal bug. You may want to fast your dog for a day, feeding
only chicken broth. Then add in some cooked rice the next day. The next
day, you can add some cooked chicken meat (no bones), and feed the rice,
cooked chicken, broth combo until the dog is feeling better. Then, start
weaning your dog back to raw: ¾ cooked combo with ½ raw for a couple of
days, then half and half, then ¼ cup cooked to ¾ raw, and finally all
raw. |
| PLUS OTHER HEALTHY FOOD SCRAPS
Eg. small amounts of cooked veggies, rice, cottage cheese,
etc.
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We do not put supplements in the meat-veggie mush when we
make it. We freeze the mush in Glad-type containers so that all the
cellulose breaks down and dogs can get the nutrition out of the
veggies. Defrost to use (keeps up to five days in the fridge). We add
supplements to the food when we serve it as follows: 1 salmon oil cap
per 20 pounds per dog, 1500 mg vitamin C powder or capsules, and a
multi-vitamin like Bertes Daily Blend, available at
www.b-naturals.com. |
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