When the big dog food recall happened a couple of years ago, I started reading up on how to make my own dog food. I read about BARF (Beef and Raw Foods), spent hours trying to find everything I could about how to feed it. I even started shopping for chicken wings, chicken backs, turkey necks and blueberries on sale. I spent hours, and I mean hours of time, driving, searching, looking for sales.
Finally I settled on the Satin Balls diet... raw hamburger, eggs, wheat germ...and a bunch of other stuff. It was a pain in the neck to make, not cheap, but the dogs loved it! And they seemed to really do well on it. In fact, Louie, one of my German Wirehairs won the National Amateur Field Championship while he was on that diet. But, over time, it just became too darn much work. So back to reading dog food bags again!
But here it is mid December, and I'm thinking again of trying the BARF diet with the Border Terriers while we are in Florida. Chicken necks and backs will certainly be easier to get down there... up here in the Phillie suburbs no one seems to sell them.
There is a ton of info out there in web land on feeding raw to your dog. Easiest way to find out is to google BARF......guess I better start reading once again!
If you feed a raw diet and would like to share your experience.....
Later......
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