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Best least expensive raw meat diet for a dog?

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I wouldn't eat fish that hadn't been frozen for at least seven days, so I never fed it to the dogs unless it had been frozen that long.

Oh, ok. So do you freeze it 7 days then cook it or are you talking about raw fish?

I will need to research fish as I have never eatten it lol.

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Oh, ok. So do you freeze it 7 days then cook it or are you talking about raw fish?

I will need to research fish as I have never eatten it lol.

Raw fish. I did phrase it rather confusingly. A regular freezer isn't cold enough to kill all of the bacteria and parasites, anyway. If you don't think it was frozen commercially, I'd absolutely cook it. Even though it isn't exactly how they'd be eating fish in the wild, I think there's less to worry about that way, especially if you're not in the habit of buying fish and thinking about different kinds of fishing and stuff like that.
 
Even though it isn't exactly how they'd be eating fish in the wild, I think there's less to worry about that way, especially if you're not in the habit of buying fish and thinking about different kinds of fishing and stuff like that.

Yeah and dogs aren't wolves either. I am sure wolves's guts can handle bacteria like that differently.
 
1 meaty bone a day.

That works fine for when a dog is younger. However as they age and slow down that's not going to work because they'll get constipated on that much bone.

Plus I noticed that when we changed over to 10% bone from daily bone our dog's fur got even softer. So obviously daily bone robs your dog of the needed nutrients which they would get from the meat their missing.

I was concerned about their teeth remaining clean. Not a problem. Perfectly clean teeth.

I never thought to allow a dog to eat their vomit

Oh...it's not vomit. It's regurgitation. There's a difference. Vomit is when the food sits in the stomach and gets partially digested or sometimes it's just the bile. This is an immediate regurgitating of the food which is not digested at all.

I know the difference because one of the dogs we fed raw to had some type of problem with regurgitating undigested food hours after he ate. The raw diet cured that problem. He was losing weight on kibble because of the regurgitating problem. On raw he started putting on the weight and growing like he was supposed. Though because the condition he had was during his rapid growing months he never did fully catch up even with the raw diet. He was shorter and his bones thinner.

Nessa7:
My husband has the degree and he believes dogs shouldn't eat raw fish. I know there are some people who believe freezing a salmon will kill whatever is in it. Not so. I don't know where they got this information. I'd rather go with someone with expertise in the area of fisheries biology than someone who says it kills bacteria and worms by freezing them.

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We also fed tuna fish, sardines, and mackerel to our dogs, all cooked and canned. They loved all of it. We'd alternate the fish and only feed fish once a week.
 
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