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Originally Posted by jessejazza
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I don't disagree with the Raw Meat Bone [RMB] diet to pups but if my experience of a dozen guide dog lab pups is anything to go by i'd stick to a meat and mixer diet introducing to a marrow bone and chicken wings every so often. Build this up over a year to RMB is that is your intention.
I have used a guideline for many years
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Whats the point of the mixer? The introduction of mixer was to bulk up the meat component of the meal during the 30's and 40's when meat was expensive. This has evolved into dry pet food. Definiatly not natural!
I also used to raise guide dog puppies and the reasons for not feeding raw meat are to do with behavioural, training and the future owners, not diet. The behavioural one was always a bit of a red herring as the association thought that the dog could become agressive if fed real meat. The training and futue owners issues are correct as you need to make feeding easly for a blind person.
Although I feed raw I don't class myself as part of a fanatical 80-10-10 brigade. However, every living aminal needs a number of essential nutrients to survive and live a long and health life. 80-10-10 is based on the percentages that you would find in prey. It is incorrect to assume that all dogs need the same ratios. Highly active dogs need a slightly higher meat content, dogs with diabetes content of IBD need a lower fat content.