[rawfeeding] Re: Question about Organs-Skin

Bearhair <bearhair@...> wrote:

> It's inappropriate to try to "swap" one part of the animal for
another to
> satisfy yourself that you're feeding your pet correctly.

Lora, I'm sure you didn't mean this, but IME this is the kind of post
that freaks people out and reinforces the notion that raw feeding
is "too hard" and "too complicated" to be done by normal folks.

There's swapping parts, and then there's swapping whole categories of
parts. Swapping parts might mean feeding whole loads of pork picnics
(from the front part of the pig) and notsomuch fresh pork hams (from
the back part of the pig). I just don't see how this is any big
deal, as long as you're feeding mostly meat with a bit of edible bone
and some organs. Meat and bone from one part of the critter are
basically like meat & bone from another part.

Swapping whole categories of parts, OTOH, like never feeding liver or
any other organs b/c you don't care for them -- well, that's a whole
other thing. Which is why we always try to say that SOME of the
diet -- though not much -- really does need to be edible bone, and
SOME of the diet needs to be organs. I suspect that this is more the
type of swapping you meant to denigrate.

> However, intentionally skinning an animal for feeding and never
feeding skin
> is unnatural and is depriving your pet of the nutrients available
in that
> portion of the prey animal.

Never ever feeding skin might be on the order of skipping a whole
category of parts, sure. I probably missed it because I've been
short of time, but I wasn't aware of anyone saying that they never
fed skin. Although I gotta say, I'm not aware of any specific
nutritional qualities of skin (versus meat and bone), anyway.

> Are you feeding your pet better than when you fed kibble?
Debatably, yes.

And I just don't see how this is even debatable. I think the worst
raw diet is still bound to stand head-and-shoulders above the "best"
kibble.

> If you don't wish to, at least recognize and acknowledge that you
are
> choosing to not feed your pet as well as you could.

There's what we all wish we could do -- and what some DO, thanks to
their ingenuity and hard work -- and then there's what the majority
of us CAN do. I hate to see people scared off -- and there are
newbies here every day, in droves -- because of the notion that if
they can't feed exactly a whole wild animal, they're better off not
even trying, and they should just go back to trusting the pet
food "experts."

All you really have to feed is meat, meaty bones, meat, organs, and
meat, in as much variety of critters and parts as reasonably
possible. Which, for most of us, entails at least some switching
around. The trick is just to figure out what switching is no big
deal and what switching is a deal-breaker.

JMHO.

-- sandy & griffin

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