How does your pup eat their RAW
We recently switched Kaiya to RAW and at first she loved it and would gobble it down (this was about a week ago). We are doing premade as I am not yet confident in my knowledge to do our own. We went with a brand called Answers because they sold in the exact portion size we needed per meal (4oz) and do not use heat or pressure pasturization and is all natural. The 4oz variety was a sausage and she loved it. Then we switched to the same brand same protein patty. She will only eat that off a spoon or being hand fed which quite frankly I just cant stomach. Has anyone else had this problem with premade patties?
My guess is that its the texture and we just need to go back to the sausage form...
I will post some pics this evening of Kaiya with her first RMB!
My guess is that its the texture and we just need to go back to the sausage form...
I will post some pics this evening of Kaiya with her first RMB!
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What helped Saya get used to it I fed it in small pieces and frozen and if she didn't eat it I did a bit tough love and she got nothing till the next meal time etc.
Now she eats those organs just fine.
Maybe the texture threw Kaiya off and maybe she'll get used to it. Maybe get caned fish like salmon or sardines if she likes that mix it with the patty and then decrease the canned fish and hopefully by the time there's no fish in it she'll gotten used to it?
I don't feed pre made exclusively, but I do feed it frozen most times when I feed ground meat or pre made raw stuff.
It got a bit tricky feeding homemade instead of premade. With the kidneys and livers, etc. Mika wouldn't touch it if it was fully thawed. She can eat it frozen and likes it better that way. Some dogs are just picky :P~ Eventually they will eat it or they starve...
If it has a considerable amount of bone then he'll chew it up somewhat.
If you feed raw salmon, be sure to freeze it first. Fresh salmon can carry parasites that can colonize humans, and probably dogs. I think it's a fluke or a worm - and it's very common. Somthing like 50% of the Pacific salmon caught carry it. But it's killed by cooking or freezing.
I fed saya Alaskan salmon once only 1oz of it we cooked the rest for ourselves. I've read Alaskan salmon is fine because it's too cold for the fluke's other host snail or something like that.
Any other salmon I cook for Saya or get canned.
Trout can have the parasite too I read..
I've fed mackerel, smelt, and saury raw with no issue I get them from an asian market and a butcher the fish has been frozen too..