I'm new here, so please bear with me. I recently got Gypsy, she turned 8 weeks old yesterday and I've been feeding her Wellness since I've got her, but my friend has recently turned me on to the idea of feeding her raw dog food.
Amongst my searchings for raw dog food, I came across this Paw Naturaw and was wondering if anyone had any experience with it?
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Gypsy is my first pup, so I've never had the opportunity to try a raw diet before. I work around raw meat all day, so that part won't really bother me. I've just heard the benefits of a nicer coat, better stools (i live in an apartment, so this is a really nice added bonus), and just better general health.
Thanks for the reply!
Just remember, she'll have that raw meet on her snout and probably her paws. So anything her snout touches would be sort of like if you handled raw meat and did not wash your hands and went around the house touching stuff.
That's the part I just can't get past.
Raw meat doesn't bother me, it's just that the food I tried had to be taken from the freezer into the frig overnight. The warnings kind of made me nervous. I know to be careful with raw meat, but this said to treat like raw meat, but not for human comsumption. I guess I was thinking raw would be as good as the food we would eat, I don't know but I didn't feel really good about it. Maybe like Melissa said if you do it yourself, but I don't feel like I know for sure what they need and really a good premium food is so much easier!
Just so you know - even the premium kibble is not what we would eat. Not even close - its the leftovers that get thrown out. All the fruit and veggies (way more than in manufactured raw food) in kibble is useless anyways, with all nutritional value having been removed already for human consumption. If you can do raw, I saw go for it. I have never heard of this brand but checked out the website and it looks pretty good. If you can get it yourself from an ethical supplier it would be even better! Good Luck!
Melissa, I am also curious why you would say not sure to feed raw to a pup that young? Feeding a raw food diet to a puppy can have fantastic benfefits
1) Exposure to illness; their immune systems are not developed yet. Most raw chicken has salmonella, for instance, and
2) Nutrients. High-protein diets can cause overly-rapid growth. Overly-rapid growth can cause all sorts of problems. I believe one of the raw feeders here started her puppy on a lower-quality kibble because of growth issues, but I don't want to speak for anyone else.
I realize that I wouldn't eat the kibble; it's just that the raw I tried was kind of gross! Many dogs do great on even "bad kibble" (I have friends that aren't into eating quality even for themselves, so really don't care where their dogs are concerned and it amazes me that there dogs do great). For me I decided to pick a holistic food that had been working fine for years and stick to it unless I had to change because it started causing a reaction or something.
If I had a puppy I'm not sure what I would use, I guess I would see what the breeder recommended. Both of the breeders that I got my dogs from used Fromm so that is what I have stayed with.
Congrats on Gypsy! Have fun and enjoy her!
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