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  • Hi Alina S
    I have a kennel of sled dogs. 4 Racing mutts, 15 northern spitz breeds. I use them for going to the store, hauling wood, hunting, family R&R, in short, how I make my living.
    I have been doing this for 20 years. I have been responsible for literally hundreds of dogs throughout my life. I wont say that I am the leading authority on dog health but I have been around and working with dogs since I was a little kid.
    I also encourage waiting till you dog healthier to surgically remove his testicles.
    My being a male human have a problem with that.
    As well, the few sled dogs I did neuter usually died earlier than the ones I didn’t.
    Average life of 10yrs for nueter/spay as opposed to 14 for intact.
    I don’t know why. Never bothered to ask the vet. Kinda didn’t trust neither he nor she since they were the 1s that suggested “for health reasons” to do it.

    Limping,… Nail/s cut too short? Hip disease? Roughly handled? Wait till he’s healthier.

    Soft stools, I no longer like feeding my dogs commercial dogfood. It seems to detract from their health. They alway had soft to runny stools, high body temp, poor hair conditions, skin problems to name but a few issues.
    However I do know from experience that switching brands or even formula requires chipping.

    I am truly sorry if anyone becomes angered, insulted, hurt by my comments.
    My intent for this post is to share and hopefully assist other dog lovers assist their dogs live a healthier and/or longer and/or more productive life.
    HAGD

    in reply to: Raw Fat balls to put weight on dog? #47376 Report Abuse

    Hi Glen B.
    As my user name implies, yes I am a musher.
    I can only speak from my own experiences so please keep in mind I “ain’t no perfeshnl”.
    That in mind, I can see you truly want to honor this responsibility you’ve accepted.
    Lotsa KUDOs to you.

    I can honestly say tho that as humans we have a tendency to overfeed our dogs and sadly with too often the wrong types of food.
    Why???…. because we think they are always hungry.
    Not really the case.
    I can go around my kennel with 10lb chunks of meat feeding as I go.
    If I have any left and any of my dogs see that they will act as they are starving.
    They will go so far in their starving act as to stash their meal and go argue with their brother or aunt or…just to try muscle away some more.
    I feed fat more only towards fall and during winter. Just raw, unadulterated fat.
    Beef, moose, pork, deer, all kinds of foul….you name it.
    I use it mainly as a source of heat energy for my dogs.
    Matter of fact, I do the same for myself. More butter, fatty cuts of meat, nuts, fish.
    And more amino acids. Don’t, repeat Do Not feed raw egg to your dog. It depletes their amino acid levels. 1 scrambled egg per day is great. Yes, in the wild they would eat them if they found them. But they would also instinctively know where and how to increase their amino acids to balance.
    I am 56 years young, smoke 1-8 cigs per day, 5’9″ tall, weigh 180, wear sz32 pants(with long johns under) & 44-46 jacket, snowshoe my trails(pack them for my team)…..
    I can go on for quite some about my activity level but…
    My point is, if my dog seems happy and healthy I would assume he most likely ain’t sick and suffering. Dogs don’t lie.
    Also, if the vet couldn’t find worms or any other affliction your dog is most likely good to go.
    It takes time to build lean, strong muscle. Fat builds up a lot quicker.
    Point in question, I have seen but 1 “over weight” runner in many years following the marathons, sitting on my couch watching the TV, NOT!!.lol
    Most chicken today is raised ii intense farming methods. They are butchered young, about 6-8 weeks of age. Older chickens have a higher level of amino acids. Hence the more wholesome flavour in soup made from a worn out layer or an open-range grazed, 6 month or year old.
    Most beef are slaughtered on their second year, even if they are “feedlot beef”. Also, yes, beef is higher fat content. Since you get your chicken cheap, maybe ask a butcher for some beef and/or pork fat trimmings. Probably get it free. I do.
    My dogs get extreme trotties from milk and milk products. Just about killed a whole team once. “watered” them with watered down baby formula thonking “energy”…. went mushing away in the bush miles from home. If they weren’t loyal to me and follow me, I wouldn’t have had the heart to go on without them…. wouldn’t be telling this big long story to you today.lol
    My (approx)recipe for active working dog from 50-80 pounds, daily, in winter 4-7 lbs red meat, about 8-16 oz raw fat, cook 1 tbsp rice(I use WildRice), I cooked egg, 1 tsp raw veg oil, 1/8 tsp doggie vitamins, and always fresh water.
    The red meat has liver kidney, heart and lung in accordance with whole animal weights.
    Actually, I now feed my dogs whole animal diet. Viscera, epiderma, skeletal, the whole works, including(not excluding much of anything) goose, duck, pork, moose, fish, deer, elk, etc., etc..
    Cheaper and easier, and yes, healthier .
    However, my dogs are pure northern spitz breeds of sled dogs. For all intensive purposes, practically domesticated wolves.
    I won’t and can’t promise all this info will work for Pitbull, but I can ascertain to you that all domestic dogs are 90%-99% wolf DNA.
    Please reconsider the raw eggs. It is actually cuts down on the body’s ability to convert food to usable energy, not very healthy for dogs.
    Whole raw fish is an excellent diet. Just cut off thorns, horns, barbles form the likes of catfish.
    I am truly sorry if my “novel” has bored, offended, angered, insulted, or hurt you in any way.
    My intention is to assist other dog lovers assist their dogs to have a healthy, long life.
    Please take what you can use.
    HAGD
    Musher.. out for now

    Aw.
    Your love for your dog is so beautiful. I see commitment.
    I know some vegetarians that wouldn’t feed their dogs any kind of real meat or dogfood with meat and/or meat bi products in it.
    In most cases these people did more harm to their dogs to the point that some actually died of malnutrition.
    My dogs are all fed meat and meat bi products.
    Actually the whole animal. I feed my dogs the same diet as wild wolves.
    Omnivore that is 90% carnivore.
    I made a mistake this spring and bought 2 pallets of commercial dogfood.
    Thought I would save some time and energy.
    Wrong!
    Back to feeding animals to them.
    I utilize everything, bones, hide, head, hair/fur, the whole works.
    I don’t worry about the bones too much. I break the leg bones and the dogs eat the marrow(avtually, so do I).
    The joints are a good gnawing tool to keep them kinda preoccupied.
    I just make sure that they don’t that piece of pliable bone from a chicken’s leg or the ones from a turkeys leg. Them bones are like baleen that was used by some hunters to kill their carnivorous and/or omnivorous prey such as bears and wolves. It’s rolled up in fat and cooled. When ingested it warms and the bone springs open in the stomach and guts and pierces the walls causing great pain and.. well.. I think you get it. Well in a chicken’s leg, them little springy bones that look like a toothpick with a knob on the end do the same thing.
    The only thing my dogs don’t eat from the larger animals(& rabbits,& fowl)is the contents of the last three feet or so of the large intestine(just before the anus).
    Wolves are the same. Their is a good reason for this behaviour but I think thisost is blossoming into a novel… again.
    I like fish because they can be frozen and fed whole. Complete diet in a neat totally biodegradable package.
    That all being said, my dogs are all huskies. Amazing teeth and stomachs. Not unlike wolves.
    I hope this helps clear some of the confusion about bones.
    TTFN HAGD

    in reply to: Having a Problem with Red Meats #47293 Report Abuse

    Melissa.
    I use a dog team to haul wood, hunt, go to the store. Not because I’m secluded but because I want a small enviro footprint and of course I love dogs.
    Dogs are 99% wolf DNA. Dogs are omnivores that are just about 90% carnivore. They ain’t like a bear.. …or a pig.
    I have fed my dogs whole carcasses of deer, moose elk, beef, pork, goose, rabbit, you name it, whole fish is awesome, beaver, excellent.
    The first thing they(dogs((and wolves))go for is the liver, kidneys, heart and lungs. The dogs then go for the fatty net looking thing around the stomach/s and guts. Of course the dogs ingest some of the plant food matter that is in the digestive tract of.
    Sorta the same as when humans eat a salad.
    Dogs don’t make up their own amino acids which is why I don’t feed raw eggs to mine.
    I had noticed my dogs do not eat about the last 3 feet(in a larger animal)of the big gut (just before the anus).
    But they do eat everything else, epecially with deer, moose and the larger wild 4 leggeds but do pretty ell the same with rabbit and fowl.
    I decided to look more closely. In the gut the pellets(poop) have a greenish slimy substance on them. The closer they get to the anus the less greasy stuff until all that’s left is the brown pellets.
    After talking to the vet that was here at the time, and doing some research in books at the time, that slime is essentiLly vegatable oil, loaded with amino acids. The partially digested plant material…hmph….wow
    Vitamin C in the marrow, vitamin B in the brain,…..
    A prey has pretty well everything in it that a predator needs to live a healthy life.
    Also, a dogs body takes 11 days(or so)to engineer a battalion of enzymes to properly digest a new food which is why several dog food companies as well as a host of dog nutritionalists say to “chip” dogs on to a new food.
    My dogs are very healthy.
    My old leader ran in front for 14 years from the time he was 1&1/4 years old. He passed away peacefully at the age of 16 human years just before his 17th birthday. He would have 117&1/2 if he was a human.
    I like to think it is in part because I had an open mind about diet for 90% carnivore 10% omnivore.
    On the other end of the spectrum, I made a foolish mistake this spring thinking I would save myself some time and money and the fact that I am starting to get a little…. umm… lazy will do. I bought 2 pallets of commercial dog food instead of gassing up the truck and cruising the hiways for fresh accident killed dog food. I am 56 and used dogs since I was 6 and for the first time in my life I have witnessed hot spots/sun spots on a dog.
    Back to meat for me. LOL…I am still learning.
    I hope this unintentional yarn helps.

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