Originally Posted by ajshep1984

Same here Milo can eat anything and be fine but I have to say putting him on a raw food diet was the best thing we ever did.

Dogs often see side affects of detoxification from changing to a raw diet, diahorrea being one of them. One of our pups had diahorrea for two days after going on the raw diet but now she has perfect stools everytime and not many of them either! Makes toilet training a hell of a lot easier!!!

In my opinion the best way to introduce it is just to feed muscle meat and bones for a few days and then introduce organ meat a bit later as its very rich in nutrients and can cause diahorrea if fed too early or in too large amounts. Some say its a good idea to introduce it slowly with dried commercial food but I can't really see the benefit of doing that, your making the transition period longer and putting crap into their bodies still.

We try to feed meat fresh as often as possible as its the best way to feed raw but to be honest most of it has been frozen as its just not practical to go to get fresh every day.

Personally I would never go back to commercial foods now, we even gave the free sample you get with your puppy pack to charity.

Lastly, I'm sorry to hear you've had a bad start to raw feeding but I hope it's not totally put you off. Any questions you have I'd be more than happy to answer and I have a couple of good books that do tell you what to feed which I can give you the name of if you want?