We waited all day to see if this actually works, and it sure does!   After feeding Chandler a raw egg this morning with much success it was off to the supermarket to find him his first raw meaty bone (RMB) meal.  The majority of people I am following suggested chicken and chicken only as his first meals for the next 12-14 days so I headed over to the club pack aisle for chicken thighs.   I am sure there are cheaper ways to obtain raw meat for my dog but for this lifestyle change I used the loblaws.  They had chicken thighs at $6.99/KG.  This approximates to about $1 per day to feed the dog.  Not exorbitant but also not cheap, about par with the premium kibble he was eating.   I also found some pork back ribs on sale for $1.99/lb!  So I bought a large package of them for advanced eating.

The plan is to feed Chandler approx 4.5 oz of RMB each day.  Since the thighs ranged from 3.9 to 6.2 oz each I figure that over the course of the next 11 days it will average out.   Sorry for mixing my units here but I’m tired of converting.   If you care you can always go to google and enter “4.5 oz in g” and it will convert for you.

I took each piece of meat out of the package, weighed it then sealed it in a ziploc bag after marking the weight on the front.  I’m pretty sure this will not be the case once I get a handle on things but for now I wanted to keep this as scientific as I could.  I learned how to cut into pork ribs today which is new for me as I never cook anything that doesn’t come out of a box!  Everyone is growing a little today.  After taking them into each “day” worth of food I placed them in the freezer.  So now each morning I will take his food out of the freezer and place it in the fridge to defrost, then after work will toss him his meat and let him go at it.

Back to the pup, so we got home from picking up mom at work and I warmed the thigh in some hot water then simply tossed it in his bowl.  You can tell by the video it only took him moments to figure it out.  He is such a gulper I have never seen him take so long to eat a meal but within 4 minutes the whole thing was gone, bone and all!   He didn’t choke once and you can see by his happy face at the end we have made a good choice!

I noticed all day that he did not lick his front paws once, that’s the first day I’ve seen this in almost a year.  I almost feel neglectful of him not thinking how much he probably suffered for nothing.  Sorry little duder, it’s now time to begin healing!

Have a look as my dog Chandler gets his first raw egg.   We have had Chandler for just over 2 years now and he has been one of the most welcome additions to our family yet.  He brings me joy and acts as an amazing reliever of stress and should be rated as a service dog for all he does for me!

I have been home recently for days at a time and have gotten to know Chandler much better to discover he seems to have a major food allergy.  We used to think all of his snorting and sneezing was normal but it definitely was not!   I began searching in earnest when he would lick at the floor for 15 minutes after every meal.  We already have been feeding him some really premium dog food that was kibble based, knowing that the stuff you buy at the regular store is NOT good for your pets.  What we did not realize is that even the top grade kibble fails to give our dog what he really needs.  He needs raw meat and bones.  That’s it!

Imagine a dog in the wild,  he will never eat corn, oats, meat by products and the like found in most foods.  He would never eat Mc Donald’s french fries.  He would instead hunt, kill and eat whatever animal he could catch.

It makes sense then that dogs are not really meant to live on kibble.  They are supposed to eat meat.  I did a lot of research and discovered a plethora of people feeding their dogs just this.  The recipes are dead easy.  Remove a raw chicken (bone in) from the package, give to dog.  Repeat daily.

I’m targeting 2.5% of his body weight which works out to approx 4.4 oz of meat per day.  I’ll assume an egg is approx 2 oz and will use them as needed.

I can’t wait to see if this makes his stop licking his paws, sneezing, reverse sneezing and licking the floor.   It might also make him a happier part of the family.   Now for me to just get over the ewwwwww factor….