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 So many foods & ways to feed a dog, but what are your views?

There are so many ways to feed your beloved pooch these days from dog kibble companys from crap brands like Pedigree, Chappie, Frolic, Purina all the way to Royal Canin, Eukanuba etc and the worst f the bunch in my opinion is shop own brands that sell for a few bucks
then there is raw diets and half raw half kibble diet many people dont agree with these as they believe there dogs to get raw food poisoning the way i look at it is how many times do you see a wild dog, wolf or wild african dog same as hyena etc take out a cooking pot light a fire and boil there meat? Same for people that bepieve dogs need more vegetable than meat how many time do you see a wild animal chew on a corn cob? Now i no wolfs etc eat berrys but only when foods running low or nothing around to eat

i myself like feeding raw or 50/50. Nelly and KimbÄ were raw food no kibble they got for there breakfast each day scrammbled egg made with goat milk i got from a elderly couple down the street each morning it was light for them to herd later on and not "swim" around in there stomach for dinner they got either raw chicken breats cut up, ox/beef/sheep liver, kidney or if the fish mongers and fisherman had spares we would travep down on a Wednesday around noon and they would get a parcel each which would either have heads, tails, deformed fish (too small/too bloated etc) and some people who knew them well would toss a freash fish to them so they hadthe fun of trying to catch it flapping around on a Sunday for there dinner they would get a chicken tossed to them sothey would need to pluck the feathers etc by themself please note i got pre dead chickens they were NEVER given a animal that was alive apart from fish they didnt have a prey drive they also like freash cracked eggs to lap up and sometimes they were given a whole egg to crack themselves

Thor and Zena my hunting Bullmastini they saty in there own kennel with Zache round a 30min walk from my house more in the country than i am and well im in the middle of nowhere but they are only fed on raw also they mostly live off of Boar, Rabbit, Elk, wild Goat, Lemmings, Fox, Badger etc pretty much anything that is caught wetake what meat we want we share it between us and meat that is left over we ask villagers, butchers, fishermen etc if they want any and once again all thats left is flung to the dogs we leave the meat attached to the skin so they pretty much eat like wild animal just to clear the legs, head are cut off and Zache hangs them then when dried cut the ears, feet and snouts off as treats and when feeding the dogs they get fed in there own cages like Zena and Thor share a kennel so they get a animal to share unless its a rabbit then there are a few only they are needing seperated now as Zena put Thor into hospital as it turned into a actual dog fight but its our fault not theresthey are hunters and are only socialised with one person which is there handler but they are just doing what is natural to them!

Milla at the moment is on 50/50 mealdeal she is on Royal Canin medium junior amd gets same meat as listed in previous paragraphs and scramble egg every now and then same as a cracked egg yolk they only thing she doesnt get a live fish nor a whole chicken feathers and all nlr will she get the wholeanimals Thor and Zena get shearly due to her being a terrier type i dont want to risk it especially since i have a giant rabbit as a pet am not chancing nothing! Milla will most likely alway be on a 50/50 meal deal

now i apologise on the long post and rambling but i have discussed this with many people and there are just so many views i have gotten and i have found it intresting hense why i ask for people opinion her

So what do you think...


09/27/09  08:36am


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