Researching the Raw Diet - Page 2

This is off-topic so I'll just say that I agree that Senta & Bosco look healthy in my photostream. Senta has gotten emaciated many times (we've seriously considered PTS) so I don't post any photos of her then, simply because it makes my husband cry to look at her. She's been to many vets but there's nothing physically wrong with her that they can find. I now know that several females in her line have been PTS for having the same eating disorder. She's been doing well for a few months now but experience has taught us that she'll stop eating without any apparent reason. Before I bought Bosco, I asked for proof that the parents were good eaters ....as loony as that made me look.

I'm sorry for derailing your thread Dawulf. Good luck with your research - there's an enormous amount of information out there to read and most of it is conflicting. When I first started raw feeding, I interviewed twenty longterm raw feeders about their feeding practices. What I found, is that while there are regional differences in the kinds of meat fed, the majority of folks feed a franken prey model and use some version of the whole prey ratio of 80% meat: 10% bone: 10% organ. I only interviewed one hard core raw feeder who shot deer, elk, and mountain sheep and tossed whole carcasses to his dog pack. Whoa!
I've read the journal literature and books on canine nutrition until my eyes have bled out and so I feel comfortable that I can explain my feeding choices. I've been lucky in that I could analyze the literature on raw feeding for my research methods course at school (I'm doing my PhD). Bosco has been raw fed since birth (his breeder is a raw feeder) so I'm very interested to see how his hip/elbow x-rays turn out.

If using a juicer to process veggies like: kale, broccoli, carrots and spinach..... am I supposed to use just the juice... and throw away the pulp... or what? It just seems like such a waste to toss all that pulp!

I now have over 4 cups of veggie juice.... I am going to freeze it in ice cube trays for lack of better idea what to do. Then I can put those in a plastic bag and take out these little vitamin cubes to mix in with his ground beef meal. That's the thought anyway. But the pulp... is it just destined for the compost pile?

Laura, that is horribly sad about Senta. I'm so sorry. I have the opposite problem (my fridge is literally chained shut when 'Pri has pups and last time she just took the handles off and ate everything anyway...) so that's something that I can't even imagine but it must be awful- frustrating and sad. Is it like she's just missing a survival gene? I always pay attention to how long it takes pups to nurse because I see a corellation between overall strength and nursing, food drive, etc. but to have one that just won't eat is something I can hardly wrap my head around. How awful for you.