[rawfeeding] Need raw feedback pls!

Hello fellow raw feeders! I have two LARGE questions for which I hope
to receive a response (and will definitely appreciate.)

A) My sister in law just got her 15 year old daughter a puppy (the
runt – not that the term `runt' ever mattered and definitely not when
you're feeding her (in this case hopefully) a raw diet. Well, I am
hoping my sister will agree to go that way. She is pretty squeamish,
re: the `handling raw meat' thing… The puppy is a boxer X
G/shepherd/husky, so is likely to be both big and active. She is also
finanially challenged, so have tried to make it as cost effective for
her as possible. Herewith the feeding advice I mailed her:

1) Get some small freezer bags and prepare and freeze whatever meat
you buy (a week at least in advance for your convenience) into puppy
portions.

1.2) Defrost in lukewarm water before giving to her (best feed her
outside) although dogs can tolerate frozen meat (not like cats).

2) You can start her off on chicken thighs, chicken drumsticks or
Maryland (quarter) cuts ON the bone 2-3 times per day. Raw bones
surrounded by lots of meat are fine for her, it's the COOKED bare
bones that cause all the cr@p.

2.1) Don't give her chicken necks, wings or backs to start - too bony
and you know how puppies gulp. Maybe Kailla (the owner/daughter)
wants to watch her eat for the first two weeks just to be sure. Also,
even when she gets big don't give her 'heavy' bare bones, like cow
leg bones / marrow bones, etc.

2.2) Once she's handled the first two weeks ok you can buy her beef /
pork ribs, whole chicken carcasses, including necks and backs, cheap
whole fish with scales, bones and all (like mackerel - which is a
great 'whole' food, but start her off early on fish, giving her bits
of raw flesh mixed in her food so she learns to appreciate it);

2.3) Give her a chicken foot once in a while to munch if you can
handle it.

3) Give her a meal of (mostly) cheap raw beef (like you'd buy for
goulash or similar), or chicken, or mutton mixed up with 1-2 raw
chicken liver, 1/4 of a beef or mutton heart and a raw egg 3 times
per week while she's growing.

3.2) Basically you can feed her whatever cheap meat you want - if its
fit for people its fit for dogs and cats.

4) She MUST get organ meat on average three times a week. Sorry...
Buy her a beef heart and just hand it to her. Toss her a chicken
liver before her main meal 2-3 times per week. Babe, I have heard of
vegetarians who have converted their animals over to raw, even though
they hate meat themselves, never mind handling it just so's their
animals get the benefit.

4.1) Don't worry about bacteria, or her getting salmonella from raw
eggs or that she'll attack children or your cats when she's bigger
(complete trollop) or any of that stuff. Go to the following two
websites to read more if you have any concerns about the above, or
anything else:

www.rawfeddogs.net - this one has great menus but don't look at the
pics yet if you're squeamish.

www.rawlearning.com - both are excellent but this is also very
informative.

It is seriously not complicated, inconvenient or expensive. Her poo's
will be small, non-stinky and will decompose within a few days - not
like those huge brown stinkbombs that mar the lawns of modern
suburbia. You will hardly need to pick sh!t up at all. And even if
you do, it will almost be a pleasure. Heee!! Let me know.

OK.. Question 2:

B) Pls help us out if you can.. My cats problem is that if he isn't
having the runs (which occurred when I gave him a large snack of
liver on its own and which I haven't done again since then) once in a
while (like once every 2 weeks) he's having these VERY solid, dry
(even if tiny) poo's which stick to his bum and (when I catch him at
it) get dragged out of the tray and rubbed off on couches, bed linen,
etc – which is hardly his fault but you know where I am coming from)
… Why is this happening and what can I do to help him?

Does he need more oil in his diet? Logically I wouldn't think so,
since how many wild cats get `enough' oil in their diet apart from
fish (when they are lucky enough to get fish in the first place) – Or
does he need something else that I'm missing?

Anyway, herewith his `schedule':

He's 4 ½ months old; He devours (in the BIGGEST sense of the word) 2
whole quails p/day, with heart, liver, kidney etc included. 2-3 times
per week he gets a fish oil capsule, beef meat, mutton brain, whole
fish, egg yolk; once a week I give him a small baby multivitamin dose
(just to be sure); he is not adverse to cows milk – I mean it doesn't
give him the squirts; umm, what else….

Pls help. Neither My hubby is definitely not a `cat' person (neither
am I truth be told) but he's sweet and naughty and beautiful and I
would hate to give this little dude his marching orders because he
cr@ps on our linen when I know it could probably be prevented…

Thanks. Nicole.

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