[rawfeeding] Re: Question

"Katrina" <outrageousshadowfilas@...> wrote:
> My question is this.....my guys are used to getting pigs feet but I
am concerned that the bacon, pork, tripe are going to be overly rich
for them to eat as meals.
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"Too rich" is a dog by dog experience. What is "too rich" for one
dog may be an uneventful meal for another dog. Certainly the bacon
(I assume you do not mean smoked, cured pork but rather the raw belly
that would otherwise have become bacon) has a lot of fat: most pork
is fatty. If your dogs are not accustomed to fatty meat, they may
have have loose stools until you and they learn what they're capable
of eating. Loose stools are not necessarily bad for the dog.

A sudden influx of fat in a diet not acclimated to it may cause acute
pancreatitis, but acute doesn't mean chronic and an attack may never
ever happen again. The point is, if your dogs are not accustomed to
fatty meals, gradually increase the amount of fat you feed.

Are you getting raw, unprocessed tripe or human-use cleaned tripe?
Raw unprocessed is a good thing but may vary in fattiness depending
on the cow's diet and who did the cleaning out. So again, you'll
have to run it through your dogs to see the result. If you mean pig
stomach, if it's been cleaned and tidied up it will be another source
of pork protein but since pigs got different stomachs than cows do,
the prospect of enzyme-laden herbivore digesta does not exist. I
myself would not take pig stomach unless it were free. Seventy-five
cents a pound is not free, for me.

> What is the general consensus on giving the dogs a large ration of
the pork I was able to pick up?
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I suspect pork plays a large role in many raw diets which is fine,
certainly no worse than chicken playing a large role in a raw diet
and arguably better. Again, it might be a shock to the system of a
dog that has been eating kibble all along, or one that hasn't had
much in the way of fatty meat.

Though I would not recommend a diet of pork ala pork (just as I
believe that a diet of chicken ala chicken is shorting the dog), I
see no problem with feeding pork (even fatty pork) on a regular
basis. Just make sure the dog ALSO doesn't see it as a problem.
Chris O

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