Raw Feeding Again: and I'm not sorry!

[Petra]

Annette, I too feed the small cans (the flat oblong type cans) and 1 can always looks like nothing...
So if it is too much, then oops.....

[Annette]

Annette, I too feed the small cans (the flat oblong type cans) and 1 can always looks like nothing...
So if it is too much, then oops.....

So, Petra, do you feed one or two cans?

[Petra]

I only feed one.... but Dill always looks for more, so I tend to add an egg, or some live yoghurt and oats...

[clairep4]

Bella gets one of the flat tins of sardines but one of the fish in the tin gets divided between the cats, so it's about 3 or 4 sardines for Bella and half each for the cats.  And she gets them in tomato sauce, it's one of her fave meals, she always goes and pleasure rolls on the doormat after her sunday morning sardines! 

[Helen]

We're going away for a week at the end of Sept, so I'll let you know how that goes  am hoping to feed pilchards and a raw egg for brekkies, and chicken wings (or pork ribs in Lola's case) for dinner every night.... we'll be going to the supermarket for our own food, so can pick up all that there hopefully !
When we've been at my mum's and its doggy dinner time, I just take it with me in a plastic container - and feed them outside so no one gets offended by the crunching 

i trust mrs (as you're going to cornwall) you will be finding the local fish & farmers markets for your supplies?

[Penel]

I guess Buddy is a bit bigger than my little girlies so yeah a whole can - but no, not two cans  maybe as Claire says, an egg on top would just finish off the meal nicely 

lol we'll have to see about the dogs' food in Cornwall, depends what we can find on the day we arrive !

[Rhona W]

Bella gets one of the flat tins of sardines but one of the fish in the tin gets divided between the cats, so it's about 3 or 4 sardines for Bella and half each for the cats. 

Gosh. I never knew sardines could become such a talking point! 
But - I bought sardines yesterday (forgot to get food out the freezer the night before!  ). It was a 125g tin and it only had two sardines in it! 
That surely can't be a whole meal? 

[Penel]

Only two sardines ?  doesn't sound right to me - were they big sardines ?!

[Densil]

Back to my recreational bones question - what can I buy that would be suitable for Pads to gnaw on for fun?  Which animal, which joint?  Any advice on asking butcher to cut it a certain way?

Denise

Ask you butcher for a beef kneecap.  (Its at the bottom of a cut called "Thick Flank or Top Rump")  This is a bone which will not splnter and will last for ages.  Dogs love em. 

I have been to the butchers today and bought Deibbley a kneecap.  He thinks its great.  I took some pics so you know what it looks like...quite a bargain at 10p




It will last him for weeks 

[sarahp]

Only two sardines ?  doesn't sound right to me - were they big sardines ?!

I get mine from tesco's - they do the cans in two sizes - the smallest is 155 g's and has 2 or 3 sardines in it - that is a meal for Daisy - but she is on a diet    the other size is 215 g's and has 4 sardines in - that used to be a meal for Daisy before she was on a diet 

While we're on the subject of amounts.  You put a pic of chicken carcass Penel, how much of that would you give Tilly as a meal?

[Rhona W]

Only two sardines ?  doesn't sound right to me - were they big sardines ?!

Not particularly.  They didn't even cover the bottom of the dish anyway.

they do the cans in two sizes - the smallest is 155 g's and has 2 or 3 sardines in it - that is a meal for Daisy - but she is on a diet    the other size is 215 g's and has 4 sardines in - that used to be a meal for Daisy before she was on a diet 

Thanks Sarah. I think I'll have to hunt out the big tins. 

[Annette]

Bella gets one of the flat tins of sardines but one of the fish in the tin gets divided between the cats, so it's about 3 or 4 sardines for Bella and half each for the cats. 

Gosh. I never knew sardines could become such a talking point! 
But - I bought sardines yesterday (forgot to get food out the freezer the night before!  ). It was a 125g tin and it only had two sardines in it! 
That surely can't be a whole meal? 

  I was going to say this but I am feeling even more stupid than usual just now so had decided to buy a different brand and do some silent research

My cans only have two sardines in them too. They are about the length of the tin, and about 1 inch across. Would it help if I weighed them?

This is doing my head in. So much so that poor Buddy is being denied his sardine and egg supper because I can't tolerate an evening with hungry Bud in my face.

Can one of the experienced BARFers come and live with me for a week before I run, panicking, back to kibble? (joke. I'm persevering on our one month trial. Now doing full BARF as I wondered whether we could really expect to see all the benefits if we continued to feed kibble)

[Rhona W]

My cans only have two sardines in them too. They are about the length of the tin, and about 1 inch across. Would it help if I weighed them?

That is what mine were like. I assumed they weighed 125g as that is what it said on the tin! 

[Cob-Web]

Just to muddy the waters:
I work to 100 -150 g of meat per day per 10 Kg of dog - Molo has about 100g of meat per meal (2 meals a day); so a 125g small tin of sardines would be about right for one meal, wouldn't it??

Now doing full BARF as I wondered whether we could really expect to see all the benefits if we continued to feed kibble

I have found it is incremental - if Molo is full BARF'd he is at his peak with no dodgy poos, and clear eyes  If he is half-and-halfed, he has the odd softer poo and occasional eye-goo. when he spends a few days in kennels, and is on 100% kibble, he has softer poo's and weepy eyes - it takes about a week of BARFing for him to detox 

[Annette]

My cans only have two sardines in them too. They are about the length of the tin, and about 1 inch across. Would it help if I weighed them?

That is what mine were like. I assumed they weighed 125g as that is what it said on the tin! 

Annette the srdine-bore here.......


my cans say 120g one side, then 84g drained weight on the other. So maybe 3 sardines then???

I know it seems like I'm fussing. But as a pretty much overweight lady I have always been pleased that our dog, at least, tends to be lean rather than fat and I don't want to turn him into an un-fit fatty now. On the other hand, he tolerates hunger very badly. Since we changed to three chicken wings for dinner he has been better, but I am giving about 190g food per meal, roughly 170g meat and 20g veg. He is thrilled with those amounts, but it's too early to tell whether it is putting too much weight on him.

He's 13kg now, but being 1/4 working type he is much longer than the average show type cocker, and is very lean. You can't see his ribs, but you can see defined muscle groups in his legs.