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You can also feed your dog whole animals such as whole fish, whole
rabbit and whole poultry. These contain just the right amount of bone.
Raw eggs with the shell on also contain the right ratio of calcium and
phosphorus (just be sure they’re from the farm … grocery store eggs
have a toxic spray in their shells).
Rule #2: Organs Are the Multi-Vitamins
I think the number two mistake raw feeders make with a raw dog food
diet (I’ll talk about the #1 mistake soon) is not feeding enough organs.
Organs are the nutrient-rich parts of the animal and without them, your
dog could be missing some important vitamins.
Organs are the nutrient-rich parts of the animal and without them,
your dog could be missing some important vitamins.
Overall, you’ll want to feed anywhere from 10% to 30% organ meats.
But this depends on how much you can get. If you can only find liver,
just feed 10% organs. If you’re lucky and you can find kidney, spleen,
pancreas, brain and other delicious, nutritious organs, then feed them
as a third of your dog’s diet. But never feed that much liver … limit it to
10% because it’s really high in vitamin A and can give your dog some
messy diarrhea if you give too much. The same applies to any organ
… no one organ should be more than 5% to 10% of your dog’s diet,
but if you have a few different ones, they can be 1/3 of your dog’s total
meals.
Organs would include:
• Liver
• Kidney
• Spleen
• Pancreas*
• Thymus*
• Brain