Thanks to RFD, i'm going to try this again....
a little history, which is why this is an attempt, not carved in stone.
i thought i was concientious with feeding....but because of my own ignorance, i believe my shih tzus died before their time, given the food i was feeding.
without going into great detail for they are dead now.....they at least made it to 13ish.....i have vowed to never feed kibble again....even though we did switch to wellness super five lamb/barley/salmon, along with some concoctions i came up with...and life was good.
until.
i started reading up about cooked and raw diets.
the one that makes the most sense, to me, for obvious reasons and from what i know of nutrition that i've now been studying for six years....at least human nutrition....is that both humans and dogs should eat as close to nature as possible.
while i do eat some raw....sashimi, carpaccio, tartare, it's not part of my overall diet..
however, for dogs it should be, as you well know.
i started them on raw in february...at the time, malia (female - 10) had just been diagnosed with giardia and was just coming off the meds...
Bubba - male - almost 3 - had just had major eye surgery for pug issues....he was also treated for giardia.
i can see now that most of what came next may very well have been user error....too much meat, not enough bone.
so.
RFD gave me a guideline to follow, which is what i am doing, starting today.
because of the wind storm yesterday, malia already has the runs....wind storms do that to her and have ever since she crawled out of a georgia ditch at five weeks, up our driveway and into our heart...
bubba....he's an anxious dog that we've had for 6 months...he was cabled to a crate in a garage with a bleached anus...on pedigree..he is scared of everything
he was not housetrained or fixed nor did he have any social skills with humans or dogs.
both have come a long way, so raw it is.
i fed them chicken backs, as clean as possible, removing excess skin and fat and organs....
bubba's poop early this morning was solid....malia's was still runny from the wind storm yesterday.
bubba now has mucus and it is soft....
not everyone goes through this do they?
do i just have special dogs?
is it possible that they will never make the transition?
i have vowed to be patient and not quit after a week..i will make sure they don't get dehydrated and for now, they will stay on the probiotic, plus a little rice and yams, just to give them fibre...
then we will wean....
anything else i should be doing?
i figure the first week will just be backs....and then we'll slowly add in ounce appropriate quarters for the second meal of the day....and then we'll see.
sorry for the long winded post...it's been pretty frustrating and i so want this for my babies.
a little history, which is why this is an attempt, not carved in stone.
i thought i was concientious with feeding....but because of my own ignorance, i believe my shih tzus died before their time, given the food i was feeding.
without going into great detail for they are dead now.....they at least made it to 13ish.....i have vowed to never feed kibble again....even though we did switch to wellness super five lamb/barley/salmon, along with some concoctions i came up with...and life was good.
until.
i started reading up about cooked and raw diets.
the one that makes the most sense, to me, for obvious reasons and from what i know of nutrition that i've now been studying for six years....at least human nutrition....is that both humans and dogs should eat as close to nature as possible.
while i do eat some raw....sashimi, carpaccio, tartare, it's not part of my overall diet..
however, for dogs it should be, as you well know.
i started them on raw in february...at the time, malia (female - 10) had just been diagnosed with giardia and was just coming off the meds...
Bubba - male - almost 3 - had just had major eye surgery for pug issues....he was also treated for giardia.
i can see now that most of what came next may very well have been user error....too much meat, not enough bone.
so.
RFD gave me a guideline to follow, which is what i am doing, starting today.
because of the wind storm yesterday, malia already has the runs....wind storms do that to her and have ever since she crawled out of a georgia ditch at five weeks, up our driveway and into our heart...
bubba....he's an anxious dog that we've had for 6 months...he was cabled to a crate in a garage with a bleached anus...on pedigree..he is scared of everything
he was not housetrained or fixed nor did he have any social skills with humans or dogs.
both have come a long way, so raw it is.
i fed them chicken backs, as clean as possible, removing excess skin and fat and organs....
bubba's poop early this morning was solid....malia's was still runny from the wind storm yesterday.
bubba now has mucus and it is soft....
not everyone goes through this do they?
do i just have special dogs?
is it possible that they will never make the transition?
i have vowed to be patient and not quit after a week..i will make sure they don't get dehydrated and for now, they will stay on the probiotic, plus a little rice and yams, just to give them fibre...
then we will wean....
anything else i should be doing?
i figure the first week will just be backs....and then we'll slowly add in ounce appropriate quarters for the second meal of the day....and then we'll see.
sorry for the long winded post...it's been pretty frustrating and i so want this for my babies.