Hi Jyen! Cool! More people starting to feed raw... Great to hear that Baby loves it...if she's getting chubbier, you could lower the amount to feed her to get her back into her ideal weight. I believe there's a percentage of how much to feed your dog in BARF. For the Prey Model diet, it's 2% of the estimated ideal adult weight, but this is also not a preset thing. If our dog is getting chubbier, then we need to lower the amount. If the dog is getting too skinny, then we would need to up the amount to get the ideal weight back. Main thing is to always monitor and feel your dog to maintain a good weight.

Awww...she sounds so cute! Do you have any recent photos of her? I love chubby puppies...they all look so cuddly wan when they're a bit chubby

Omigosh...she's ADORABLE! From the photo like that,she doesn't look THAT fat. But then, photos can be deceiving. LOL!


OIC...cool! Scottie likes fruits too, but I only give them occasionally as treats.

For meats, I usually defrost it in the fridge a day before Scottie's meal. He would get the meat not frozen. But if you feel that your dog gulps his food down, you can feed frozen meat to give him a bit of a challenge and make him chew his food properly If you're feeding the same meat back in the next meal, you can just chill in the fridge instead of freezing it. Hope that helps!

LOL! Yeah...my other username is Rayne, but then when I started Scottie's blog, I kind of like NottieScottie too, so I started using that as my username

What does swt mean? I'm a bit blur with abbreviations...

Bones And Raw Food Diet

As per title, besides what most pet owners normally providing their pets - Kibbles. There is another interesting diet for us to discover about - BARF.

Personally, I'd been feeding my dogs on BARF diet for quite some months already. Thanks to my gf, Ying. At first, I was quite reluctant to switch from kibbles to BARF, just as any normal person, I thought that feeding BARF is a troublesome + expensive thing to do. BUT if you were to ask me to switch back to kibbles now, I would say NO!

BARF, also known as Biologically Appropriate Raw Food by Dr Ian Billinghurst - vet who originated the BARF (Evolutionary Nutrition) feeding program worldwide, is an interesting subject to wonder upon. We admire him a lot and gotten a bundle of books written by him to munch about. We share the books among our friends and puppy buyers, trying to find out the best we can provide our dogs.

Well, through out the readings, we do noticed that BARF is not as simple as we imagine. BUT if we are willing to study more and research hard, we will actually able to make our pets healthier, and we do learn a lot on why feeding BARF will makes our pets better off. None of us are nutritionist or experts but we hope that through reading the books from the professionals, we would be able to provide the best for our pets.

Let's put aside the very much details and allow me to express what I'm able to observe as a normal owner. What are the differences after switching from kibbles to BARF.

1) The amount of poo is much lesser, as in very much lesser! Some of you guys might know, I do own quite a substantial amount of dogs. It is a disaster for us to clean up their big pile of poo poo many times a day! After feeding BARF diet, it is incredible. The poo poo size is much smalleer, very less smell, also they only poo once a day! I do believe that this is very much due to the enzymes in raw diets. Enzymes is an agent to help dissolves and digests the food and nutritions. During processing, heating and packaging to last for long shelf life, most enzymes in most kibbles are lost. Which means that if we are feeding diet losing the enzymes, what enters the stomach will only FILL the stomach, then most of the food will come out as poo poo! But when feeding BARF, the food and nutrients dissolved and digested appropriately, hence very litttle remaindings will come out as poo poo, also our pets will get healthier since the nutrients are better digested.

2) Water consumption lower, lesser wee wee. Unlike kibbles which are very dry and dogs will always thirsthy and need to drink a substantial amount of water, which makes them wee wee very frequently, BARF diets basically are not heated nor dried, hence the liquid remains. Eating do not make them thirsty, they will drink  as needed.

3) Skin and coat and overall health being improved. We can see a very big different comparing our dogs when they are fed with kibbles and after they are fed with BARF for some time. We do brought back dogs with poor health condition and see obvious improvements. We are also glad to see by providing a suitable diet, our pets skin and coat is actually getting better, inside out!

The purpose of me opening up this thread is to share, i'm happy and satisfied with BARF and wish to share more. I'm not an expert but I do hope to share some of my experience and I believe that there must be many of you guys here are able to share some valuable knowledge with me too! Let's learn together.

But remember, a BARF diet has to be a "COMPLETE" one if we want our pets to be better off. For instance, let say you are feeding only RAW Meat but not with the bones, you will face problem. It is not a simple subject but it is interesting while we learn more! So, if you want something better for your pets, do study hard and drop by here frequently to enganged in our discussion.

Let's just ends here for the first post, and we shall share together for many posts to come.

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