First litter born since feeding totally raw food - Page 3

Beautiful pups!

Fact or Fiction?

Some say that if you feed raw,  you most likely will not have to assist mom with delivering the litter. (except for the fact that you check to see if she doesn't accidently sit on the pups and crush them)

Has anyone ever fed kibble for one litter, than fed raw for another litter to prove this?

Fiction.  Good balanced diet is a good balanced diet.  If someone chooses to feed raw, and is educated enough to be sure the diet is balanced, the dogs will do fine on it.  If someone feeds a good quality kibble, the dogs will do fine on it.  Simple as that - it's a matter of choice.  I choose to feed kibble, and I challenge anyone to prove that their raw-fed dogs are healthier, have less vet bills, easier whelping, faster recovery, better hair coat, less allergies, more vigorous, bigger, or stronger puppies, or live longer than my kibble-fed dogs are.  I don't have to try feeding raw to figure that out - there is no way my dogs would be in better coat or condition than they are on kibble (they are in perfect coat and condition).  No reason to fix what isn't broken.

 

molly

 

Hi Cheryl:  Since you have been feeding raw for a while can you give us a scenario of what you feed and variety;  Thx  Nan

PUPPIEEEEEEESSSS, puppies puppies puppies!  THEY ARE SOOOOO CUTE!!!! 

Congratulations!

W 

Invest in some snake chaps for those little landsharks ;)  Cute puppies, and I like how #10 seems to be saying, "YAY!" in the picture :)

Congrats on a beatiful, healthy litter!  The excitement in your "voice" says it all :)  Can't wait to watch them grow. 

I fed kibble (partly kibble anyway) for the litter I bred while I was pregnant. I was really sick and it was easier. Puppies were fine, mom was fine, but HOLY COW, what a difference in the next litters, the raw fed ones. She hardly shed, pups were an average of 3-4lbs heavier at same age, and they just were "better" in a way that's hard to articulate. Ears were up early and stayed up, and as lean as they were (I keep puppies skinny), when you picked them up they were like tanks. I hate fat, lazy puppies. You were shocked when you put them on the scale because they didn't look that heavy. I can only attribute it to greater muscle tone early on, as bone was about the same as other litters. They grow very uniformly and never seemed to go through those awkward stages of uneven growth.

They are turning into real puppies!!!
Finally went out & got some yarn!



My Labrador Retriever also had pups,(fed raw diet).. she had them yesterday on my daughters B-day,
My daughter just turned 20 yrs. old, she trained Claire so I could title her for CD & RN.
We consider Claire to be my daughter's dog.
I was going to retire Claire, but then her beautiful daughter Daisey that was 3yrs old, got out of the yard & got hit by a car in January, it was just within minutes.
So I asked Daisey's mom Claire if she wouldn't mind one more litter with Daisey's dad, she said "OK, Maybe just one more" and what do you know, 4 boys & 4 girls, mom & pups are super healthy, and I have a part of Daisey back in our lives, what an exciting day that was!

Wow, a 20 yr old Labrador. 

Can't believe how narrow minded some people are; I feed half kibble/half raw because I work 13hr shifts and my wife has to look after the dogs, everything in science from childrens health to athletes, to aging is all related to diet. Kibble is not as good as raw, and I feed Orijen. Its pure luck that Molly hasn't had any problems, its not even logical let alone objective.

I bought my first raw fed pup 18months ago, and the difference was amazing. You are what you eat, and if your daft enough to believe whats on the side of the bag then you're hardly likely to open your eyes to the facts. Kibble is convenient, its clean and its cheap, and quick. Processed food for people or dogs has never been anything else. Perhaps they should feed the lions in the zoo kibble! The cr*p in the human food chain is very scary, what the hell must go into pet food. Then again that dogs cancer rates are thousands of times higher than peoples must be just bad luck. 

Ronin