Raw Food Diet for Dogs

[heyfredyourhat]

We fed our 2 dogs for almost 2yrs on raw. We started with chicken legs/drumsticks and every once in awhile eggs and veggies and the odd beef chunk...etc...etc... After about a year we switched over to a brand called mountain dog food, which is raw, but mashed up and packaged. IIRC we bought 3-400 lbs and it was a bit over 500 bucks, that lasted us 6 months. I think i had it figured out to about 1.47 per pound shipped to my door. Our 2 dogs are in the 25lb range so they only eat a small amount per day. But it was messy, and with a baby on the way we decided to switch to a dry food. We buy Orijen, which is a grain free high protien kibble. As far as i can tell its basically raw but dry!

One thing we noticed was when they were on grocery store raw food there poop was small and not very often and it almost seemed as though they never drank any water. And when we switched to the MDF they always had to drink water and they seemed to "go" more often.

We also never cut any of the raw meaty bones up. With our dogs it worked out really good, they each got one chicken leg for breaky and one for dinner.

There is a lot of info on the net about it, but IMO raw is the best hands down. (its just messy)

Oh and the orijen food we have now was 68 bux and it should last us about 5 weeks.