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How Much Fish Oil is Good For Our Dogs?
I’ve known about the benefits of fish oil for years. I started adding it to our dogs dry food, buying a bottle from Costco. I would pierce the capsules with a needle and squeeze the liquid over their...
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Highly Qualified Veterinarian Warns About the Dangers of Raw Feeding
DepositPhoto/Flydragonfly Yep, you read that right. I was stunned too. A couple weeks ago there was a webinar hosted by a highly qualified veterinarian on the topic of raw feeding for pets. I was...
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Digestive Enzymes that Will Stop Dog Poop from Ruining Your Day
One of the appeals of raw feeding is “smaller, less smelly dog poop.” All of our dogs have smaller, less smelly poop; all except Rodrigo. No one told me about digestive enzymes! When Rodrigo was a...
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Merrick Backcountry is an Ancestral Diet for Dogs?
“As a raw feeder, it’s insulting to see Merrick, a Purina brand, compared to raw feeding, which involves combining 80% muscle meat, 10% organ meat (half of which is liver), and 10% bone. I’m stunned...
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Serendipitous Saturday | Easy Dehydrated Apple Dog Treats for Dogs
I’m still loving my Excalibur food dehydrator and I doubt that this love affair will go away soon. This weekend, I’ll be slicing up sweet potatoes and apples (again) and putting them in the...
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Quick and Easy Raw Dog Food Recipe – Duck
This post shares a recipe for four dogs that weigh between 60 and 80 pounds. I’m not a veterinarian or a dog nutritionist. The below recipe was developed for our dogs after research, consultations...
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Is it Inhumane to use Shark Cartilage to Ease a Dog’s Joint Pain?
I was introduced to Nupro Joint and Immunity Support, which contains shark cartilage, when I was hanging out at Dooley’s Dog House, a pet store in Kirkland, Washington. A huge container was spendy,...
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Why Green Beef Tripe is Good for Dogs
When I started feeding our dogs a raw food diet, one of the first things I learned was… I needed to add green beef tripe to their food. Green beef tripe is a superfood for dogs. What I didn’t know was...
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Remembering to Add Fish Oil to My Dogs’ Food
I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me recently, but I keep forgetting to add fish oil to our dogs’ food. I have a routine at meal times to ensure that I don’t forget anything… I walk into the...
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Want to Win $350 in Raw Food for Your Dogs?
A couple weeks ago, I received a $200 gift certificate to Raw Paws Pet. This is a brand that I’ve worked with since the new owners converted a raw food co-op into a bonafide commercial raw food...
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3 Reasons I Fed My Raw Fed Dog “Kibble”
This month, Scout developed a fever out of nowhere. At it’s highest, it was 105.8 degrees – at 106.0 degrees, it’s pathological and requires immediate hospitalization and treatment. Scout could have...
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Why All the Purina Hate by Raw Feeders?
A person recently posted a comment on a blog post about Merrick’s claims that their food, Back Country, is similar to an ancestral diet for dogs (wolves would eat it). “All the Purina Hate.” ~ 2 Brown...
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Benefit of Limited Ingredients in Dog Treats #Giveaway
The more I learn about our dog’s health and nutrition, the more anal I get about what I’ll feed to them, including their dog treats. The other day, I received a bag of dog treats in the mail. The...
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Read This If Your Dog Has Food Allergies
“The Enforcement Issues Committee under the Association of Animal Control Feed Officials (AAFCO) met on August 3rd, 2015, to discuss the potential misbranding of feed ingredients and finished...
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Why Green Beef Tripe is the Perfect Food for Dogs
A few months ago, someone told me that there are raw feeders who feed only green beef tripe to their dogs. I’ve heard that green tripe is considered a super food, but I didn’t think it could be 100%...
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Quick and Easy Raw Dog Food Recipe – Emu and DIY Dog Treats
This week, our dogs had the last of the emu. It’s always a bummer when the emu is gone, because we won’t have another order until next year. I got lucky with this one; another dog owner needed to...
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Do Dogs Vomit When They’re Hungry?
Sometimes Sydney vomits in the morning. This usually happens on weekend mornings; the vomit is yellow with white foam, and she vomits if I’m late feeding our dogs in the morning. It happened Sunday...
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4 Dog Supplements Every Raw Fed Dog Needs #Giveaway
When I became brave enough to cancel my monthly order from Darwin’s Pet and mix our dogs raw meals at home, I fell into a trap that other new raw feeders might stumble across. Over Supplementation When...
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My Top 5 Raw Feeding Groups on Facebook
I’ve written a few times about my experience with raw feeding groups on Facebook: Thrown Out for Yogurt 21 Things to Know About Facebook Raw Feeding Groups Reasons People in Raw Feeding Groups are So...
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Is Propylene Glycol in Your Dog Food and Treats?
Last week, Blue Buffalo announced a voluntary recall of “Blue Kitty Yums Chicken Recipe Cat Treats that may contain low levels of propylene glycol.” Source: Food Safety News The first I heard of...
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