Feeding Pets Raw Foods
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All the talk about giving your pets Raw Food such as Chicken bones, Beef and Table Scraps. I realize that the Veterinarian Profession wants to keep animals healthy and safe, but there comes a point to wish Natural is sometimes or even most time better than what the industry says. Dry Pet Foods serve a purpose for those big companies that make it----to make money.
Raw foods are good and nutritional for cats and dogs. Think of it this way--what would a dog or cat in the outdoors in it's natural state be eating? Other live animals. Natural Foods. That is not what makes their lives less enjoyable or healthy. It's the fighting between animals and the kiling by humans that do it.
In my observances about the natural state of my outdoor versus my indoor cats I leaned some very interesting things. For one, the cats that live outdoors all the time don't have many fleas, but my indoor/outdoor cats have many fleas. Now my indoor cats will get fleas really bad. Is there someting missing in the equation? They all get fed the same things. Only the outdoor cats get wild things on occassion. When the mommy cat brought me al her kittens and they were teething I gave them semi-frozen chicken wings. They loved them and they even fught over them even though I gave each one their own bone! I did no harm to them and it was very good for them. I did have to take them away from them when they got to bigger part of the bones, only because they would try to stuff the whole piece in their mouths at onces and a few of the kittens got it stuck in their mouths! You just need to keep an eye on them. My dog, however, didn't really care for them.
Raw foods has gotten a bad name over the years. Chicken bones are healthy for your pets, if they will eat them. Just don't cook anything that you give raw. The cooking and heating process makes the bone brittle and that is what kills dogs or cats.........not uncooked ones. Raw means raw--uncooked. Here are a few sites in which you can get more detailed information from:
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I would even go so far as to say a heresy - it might be, just might be, raw food is good for humans, too :)
Misha, Heresy?! Well we did survive on raw meat before we found fire. Who knows how long we only used fire for heat and light before we oundnthat nit nwas good to cok bfood. n Did nwe even know what cooked food was?! Misty, Yes I supposed it would have to be Fresh meat. It is a myth that once an deomestic animal tastes blood that it becomes wild again or will go for blood of other animals and humans. That is simply not true!
I totally agree :)
I was just being cautious introducing this concept here - I did not know how you think about it :)
And yeah, of course we did survive on a raw food just fine, and all our modern problems with teeth and most other health problems come from cooked food - at least I tend to think this is true :)
Misha, Also comes from over flouridation---too much of a good thing is just that---too much.... I don't know how all of you are going to take this, but I haven't used toothpaste in 3 years===I brush my teeth while I am in the shower with my washcloth. I have been to the dentist several times to check on something and I don't have one cavity. My teeth aren't that sparkling white, but then again they never were all that white before....
Lady Guinevere, great ideas. My dog loves raw hamburger meat. She also hunts squirrels and eats them.
As a child I preferred my steak raw, because it tasted less rancid.
But just to interject an additional perspective: some dogs do seem to be trying to cook their meat. You give them raw meat, even when they are hungry, and rather than eat it, they'll bury it. Then they go and dig up something that they buried a long time ago, and eat that, instead!
Cooking is just a way of allowing foods to decay in a controlled manner. Some people prefer their food cooked for the flavor. Some dogs seem to have a similar preference. What do you think?
I agree. Sometimes my cats will leave their canned or my home-made recipe out there all day before they touch it. They say to give it fresh, but some won't eat things fresh no matter what you do. I think that we are trying to make them human when they are not. Let nature be nature and it takes care of itself.
How often does a dog that has been wild. or cat, go through trashcans and eat things that have been in there for days? Many in the cities and places like that--and they survive a long time and they rarely die from those causes anyway.
I feed my dog raw, and it's the best in my opinion. There is a picture of him on my first hub. I totally agree with the raw diet and will never be going back to kibble.
Thank You very much Mutt. Now what do you feed and where do you get it?
I feed B.A.R.F. (Bones And Raw Food)
I usually get it from people giving away meat that they weren't going to use, and I occasionaly go to the grocery store. I would go to a butcher, but the closest one is 20 miles away, and I cannot afford the gas to drive 40 miles a week to go get meat. I wish I could, however.
My dog's favorite meat is venison, with his least being turkey or chicken.
I don't have anyplace like that around my area and my dog will not touch chicken. I am wondering if I could get venison from the processor here in town for cheap.
See I also have a bunch of outdoor cats and would love to feed the raw--some of my indoor cats would do better on that too.
I was thinking of doing some kind of coop for this stuff but really can't think of a way to do it.
That's odd how dogs don't favor chicken!
A raw diet for the cats would be great, if you can figure out how to set it up, go for it!!
I do have a contact person now! I will call them tomorrow. It may just happen. A lady that I know who has a farm had to put on of her cows down and they got it processed and all that. She gave me some extra for the cats, which they will love, but i would also like the fat for the birds and other animals and also the bones for the dogs to chew on. My frined asked what they did with the bones and stuff and they just said that they trhow it in the garbage. That is not very useful to anything and just fills the dumps up! I will have to cal her!!
I think you have a very valid point Lady Guinevere. Animals living outside in their natural inhabitats are bound to eat raw food. The only thing I am concerned about is that most pets are bred to be indoor animals and have been like that for decades (if not centuries).
Don't you think that some of their "outdoor genetics" might have changed and that they are not neseccarily able to process and benefit from raw food in the same ways as their "bred by nature" friends?
I have given my pets raw hamburger and chicken for a year now and they show no signs of illness or anything strange or out of the ordinary. They still eat their kibble and the cats still will eat their canned cat food, but learning what is in them is sickening. The same goes for the canned dog food. By products are what parts of the animals that people do not eat. That goes for dry kibble for dogs and cats too.
I think I have a link in this article that will tell you all kinds of things concerning Raw foods and how a dog or cat digests them and what they do not get that we think they will get from the raw meat. The do NOT get any worms or such. Their systems are different then ours and digest things much more quickly.
No doubt. I'm sure that are a lot of crappy dog and cat food around. But that is no different that what we humans eat. If we knew what was in most of the food we eat it would be sickening as well :) And eventually we do get sick but we can't blaim it on the food because the process is so slow that it could have come from from anything...
My only concern about people trying to "act wisely" by making up the "right nutritional meal" for their pets is that most people obvisouly have no clue (if you look at what they eat themselves). For them (in my opinion) the pre-made pet foods is a much better and healthier alternative for their pets. They should surely buy top quality products and seek advice from their VETs on which brands are best for their particular pet but trying to guess what will work is not the safe way to go.
RAW foods is like raw hambuger or chicken, not processed anything. It is like going to a butcher and gett ground hamburger or steak and feeding the pet that. If you are so concerned with what we eat and feed outr pets then it is only surmisable that no one should own a pet becaseu they may potnetially poison it. Vet's also do not agree on what we should and shouldn't feed or pets.
It seems that you didn't read the link that I have on here. The only thing that is not fgood for a dog or a cat for that matter is PORK.
nice; it's a good points about raw food...
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. It is appreciated.
mistyhorizon2003 says:
15 months ago
Raw meat is great for meat eating animals so long as it is fresh. Even the Head Vets nurse I know will feed her cats raw chicken, and when I had a Lurcher dog I used to occasionally give her raw rabbit without any problems, (only Rabbits I was given, not ones I had killed myself). My ferrets were also often given raw rabbit cubes from the supermarket, and thrived off them, so I am inclined to agree, raw meat is not a bad thing in general.