Something terrible has happened The large box of Wag that lives in my Kitchen SOMEHOW was sabotaged in the night rendering all the 'food' in it useless. Someone left the lid off underneath a dripping pipe and....oh....the tragedy.

So, Daisy is starting her RAW diet tonight...well id like it that way but i still have a few last reservations before i take the plunge.

1. After much protest, Daisy had a bath on the weekend. Strange as she loves water so much but clearly not from a hissing shower head. Point being is that on the next walk she decided to teach us once and for all the consequences of bathing her and jumped into a stream of very nasty looking smelly, brown / yellow / green water. Then decided to bolt up and down it flicking water all over her. Surprise surprise, she has an eye infection. Is the sudden and drastic change in diet likely to stunt her ability to fight the infection. The vets gave her eye drops but i dont know if they are an anti-biotic or not. If they are then is it really wise to be feeding her raw meat when she has little --> no immune system ?

2. Just to be on the safe side, im going to freeze all the meat i give her for atleast 24 hrs. Its advised you do such things with rabbits, rats, mice ect to kill of parasites but i am going to do it with all...cos i am a grade-A worrier. I also read that an important aspect of the RAW diet is the bone content. So when i give her a meaty bone, do i allow her to actually ingest the bone aswell and just let her learn how to eat bones without choking, or do i remove the bone from her once shes had a good chew ?

3. Are there any tell tail sings that something has gone wrong with her during the RAW meaty bones switch-over ? Like certain stool types mean shes being poisoned? I have noticed she has alot of dry skin recently and i put this down to the shocking diet of death-biscuits she has been on. How long untill i should be seeing improvements roughly? Days, weeks, months ?

4. What does the ideal stool from a well-fed RAW meaty bones dog look like ?

Finally. I would really appreciate just a small amount of information about what you RAW feeders first began to feed your dogs right at the begining and in what form. I feel i am well educated enough in the ways of RAW feeding now to make it well on my own. I just lack the confidence to start with something.

As to the specific quality of Tesco's meat....i dont know. From what i have read, freezing the meat for 24 is likely to kill off any nasties. Be sure to inspect the package to ensure no additives or colouring has been added to the meat. I have read from several sources that it is the economy quality meat that you really want to be aiming for as the cheaper minced stuff has bone minced into it also which is an important part of the RAW diet. THe more expencive 'quality' stuff i imagine has had alot of that taken out for a more 'pure' and thus expensive product.

To be honest, watch this and once you can get past the cheesy american sales person presentation and actually listen to his words and visit his research sources i think you will agree, low quality meat from Tesco is the least of your worries from a biscuit-fed dogs perspective.

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P.S - How do you 'quote' people so that the quote box specifically states who said it rather than just saying that it is a quote ?