[rawfeeding] Re:Combining and weaning.

My little Shih Tzu x, Pepper, we adopted a week ago. He's 1 year old and
weighs 7.3 kg. . . I decided to make slower changes. I've mixed in a
commercial raw food kibble (with the stuff they sent home) as well as given
him chicken wings and backs/legs (bits of giblet and liver attached). For
treats, dried liver. Pepper seems to be responding so well to this
introduction to raw feeding. Any suggestions for the best plan for my little
man?

Yep! Toss the k***** and switch to all raw immediately.

Tessa, my recently adopted Maltese is smaller than Pepper and was changed to
a raw diet the first night I brought her home. Her previous owner was a well
meaning lady who warned me that Tessa was a picky eater and would eat
nothing but the carefully weighed portions of cooked minced meat, pumpkin
and rice that were fed twice a day at set times. She gave me a supply of her
'special diet' to bring home with me, told me which brand of crapinabag was
the only one she would eat and warned me against bones, uncooked food etc.

Tessa's first meal at my home was a boneless, raw chicken breast which she
loved and tho' she's only been with me for a couple of months, she's eaten a
variety of raw meats, organs and bones and has set up her own timetable for
gorge and fast.

As well as the usual benefits such as sweet breath and white teeth, raw
feeding has also mellowed Tessa to the extent that she's no longer a
hyperactive, snappy little prima donna, but a dog who accepts me as pack
leader and acts accordingly.

If Pepper is already eating and enjoying some parts of a raw diet, you're
not going to have problems getting him to eat so just toss the doom nuggets
and give him all real food. My only suggestion would be to follow the usual
rules of one meat at a time so his digestive system isn't burdened with too
much too soon.

Cheers
Sue

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