Is it safe to assume that the minced meat my local butcher sells at 64p a Kg is going to be absolute crap in terms of nutritional value. I mean obviously shes not going to get to chew down the bones or really have to think about chewing her food ect ect. But on a purely nutritional level. Surely the scraps he minces are just small amounts of what you'd be feeding a raw fed dog anyway. But instead of 1Kg of 1animal, theres 1Kg of about 100bits of 4 animals.

I only ask because i cannot stand pouring 'Wag' into Daisy's bowl after all the research i have done on it and the advice i have recieved here and yet...i cant quite figure out this landywoods site and still dont have a freezer large enough to accomodate a month or two's worth of meat !

3rd'ly - If weight bearing bones are no good. Then where does the chewing come into play ? I have had a look at chicken carcasses ect and there really doesnt seem to be many chewable bones on there, most bones on there i could use as a tooth pick !!!

I bought Daisy a shoulder of Lamb the other day, see how she got on with it....she tried to swallow the thing whole. Hard work feeding Daisy now, i spend most of my time with my arm in her mouth pulling 500g slabs of bone out of her mouth ! She knows exactly what shes doing wrong because i only have to do it once and she begins to chomp it down into smaller bits. Even then she tends only to break it up, fold it up, then swallow it again. It just seems a real shame to finally feed her food with real texture and real taste yet it barely touches her tounge !!

I have taken to drilling a small hole through the thickest bit of bone and attaching some thin rope through it and to a stair post or chair leg or something that anchors the thing to the ground so that the only way it gets into her mouth is in small bits. Scares the crap outta me when she manages to get a HUGE bones in her mouth and swallow it before i can get to her.

On that note, is there some kinda doggy heighmlich manouver i should know about ? Or is it a dangle upside down thing ? I cannot imagine a firm slap on the back will work for dogs due to thier anatomy. So when she does start choking as she almost certianly will with her habits, what the general protocol ?

THank you guys