I am considering the raw food diet for my 5 year old Lab. I need tips and recipes.?

Does anyone know a good way to transition into this? I also am a bit worried about serving him raw chicken due to salmonella. Can dogs get it? Any recipes that you suggest would be great too. Thank you in advance.I am considering the raw food diet for my 5 year old Lab. I need tips and recipes.?
The recipe (*not to be followed daily though it can be, the goal is to balance over 1 - 2 weeks) is really just 80% meat (half red meat is nutritionally a good goal), 10% bone (covered by meat), 5% liver, and 5% other organs (any mix)



Salmonella probably has a better chance being found in your cereal, tomatoes or kibble than causing harm in your dog from eating raw chicken!



Definately join yahoo groups "rawfeeding" and "RawChat" for much more help and discussion.



Here is a site with a simple menu plan if you'd like an example:

http://www.rawessentials.co.nz/content/p鈥?/a>



And here's a kind of fun recipe site;)

http://www.rawfeddogs.net/Recipe/ListI am considering the raw food diet for my 5 year old Lab. I need tips and recipes.?
Dogs can get salmonella from anything, including and most often commercial kibble, but dogs have a totally different digestive structure and therefore VERY rarely would they succomb to salmonella. Dogs are naturally scavengers and will gleefully eat soil, faeces, buried bones and decaying carcasses given half a chance, with no problem providing they are normal and healthy.



I am giving you some good links on raw feeding information. Join an email list, get a book or two, research and happy hunting !

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Be prepared for lots of negative comments from those that have not researched natural feeding and are yet misinformed.I am considering the raw food diet for my 5 year old Lab. I need tips and recipes.?
http://www.barfworld.com/ has pretty much everything you need to know.



salmonella is totally not a concern: it's not something they get from meat left lying around. salmonella is found on meat or eggs from sick birds - a bird infected with salmonella is *sick* and looks sick. otherwise, we'd be dropping like flies from it.



food poisoning in dogs is very rare - their stomach acid is much more powerful than ours. human stomach acid has a pH of about 5 while dog's stomach acid is more like a pH of 1 or 2 - when you figure human stomach acid can damage steel...!



bones are also not a concern as long as they're raw - dog's more likely to choke on kibble, statistically speaking. i've fed three dogs raw food diet and not one episode of choking - chicken bones, deer, moose, beef, goat, pork, beaver, you name it. no problem.

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