[rawfeeding] Re: Thanks for all the advise.

"clittleidiot" <karen@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the advise. The specialist I'm seeing is a raw diet
> prey model nutritionist. They recommended her for from the raw
diet
> semminar that I attended. But if it's not needed then I won't go,
*****
Well heck. If you can afford the visit, go. I really want to know
who this person is and what her schtick is.

Get all the info you can from her and bring it back to this list and
do a core dump so we can find out how prey model nutritionists do
it. If she's laid on you a lot of good stuff, then you've found a
resource indeed. If she's gone off into the weeds, we can help you
find a simpler way. I am curious. Especially on your dime!

I understand the meat and organ part, but how do you even
> attemp to measure out bone.
*****
Questions to ask yourself when evaluating a body part: can I see the
bone beneath the meat? How much bone can I see beneath the meat? If
the bone is big, is the meat around the bone bigger? If the bone is
big but mostly inedible, is there enough meat to meet the challenge
of the bone that IS edible?

Another question to ask yourself: am I overthinking this?

Just give them whats in the meat and let
> them have the whole bone or is that too much.
*****
This is fine. If the whole bone is too much, take it away when they
think/you think enough's been eaten--or let the whole bone be eaten
and feed several subsquent boneless meals to, um, flesh everything
out.

The seminar suggested
> to us 5% kidney and then 5% other organ too.
*****
I would not necessarily trade liver for kidney. If I were forced to
commit to one and only one organ, it would be liver (plus heart but
we count that as muscle meat so it's not cheating). 3%-5% of the
diet as liver and another similar percent as other internal organs is
fine, and that's big picture, not necessarily day or day or week to
week or even month to month.

Plus I'm not sure when
> to even feed my dogs. They are on different schedules all the
time.
> and they get feed twice a day now. And they know when its their
food
> time, they remind me everyday. Cause aren't you suppost to feed
> only once a day.
*****
A mandatory once a day is no more natural than a mandatory twice a
day--regardless of what you've previously taught your dogs to
believe. That said, you can and should feed your dogs when it makes
the most sense for them, given their busy schedules.

There is no reason to feed by the clock! Feed in the morning, feed
at night, feed midday if that's when there's enough time. Feed once a
day when you can, twice a day when it makes sense to do so, don't be
afraid to skip a day entirely.

And how
> long on average does it take for them to eat?
*****
Depends on the dog and the meal. That's another thing than is
totally open to flexibility. Some meals can be small and quick, some
can be complicated and slow and your dogs can luxuriate with their
good fortune. Feed what, when and where you have time to do it.

Chris O

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