Did I ever tell you guys.....

[luvMyBRT]

that I LOVE feeding raw and I am SO grateful to you all for your help and support!!

I know I am still a newbie, but I can tell this is something I should have done a long, long time ago. I feel so bad that Lucky has spent her whole life up until now eating kibble. I am so happy that the last years (hopefully many)of her life she will be eating what she was meant to eat all along. Her teeth already look so much better, she has almost stopped shedding all together, and she is more playful with Duncan.

I am also so excited that Duncan will get to eat raw his whole life. I really didn't notice this, but when on kibble he scratched a lot...now on raw for almost 2 weeks I don't think I've seen him scratch at all. He is turning out to be my next "soul dog". He has taken over right where my Rottie, Kodi, left off. Duncan is always at my side, so watchful, making sure I'm safe. Where ever I am, so is Duncan. I called Kodi my black shadow....and now so is Duncan. This pup deserves the very best, and raw is one area of his life that I know he is getting the best.

Who would have thought I would be so concerned with dog poops??? And only a raw feeder knows the pure joy of hearing your dog crunch through a chicken bone.

[magicre]

i know how you feel....but as wise people from this forum told me.....better now than never at all....

poop is a major discussion in this house....although less so, since they poop less....

it's my indicator of whether or not bone is needed to firm up...or give less bone to unchalk.....

since both honey and i do the care and feeding of our children....we discuss this raw thing a lot.

i know exactly how you feel....

it's a joy like no other....and, hopefully, the remaining years, however long or short, will, at the very least, be quality.....

i know we both wish we had done this years ago, but we're here now and that's just fine, isn't it?

we done good!

[chowder]

Who would have thought I would be so concerned with dog poops??? And only a raw feeder knows the pure joy of hearing your dog crunch through a chicken bone.

Us newbies are becoming a little carried away with how excited we are by it all! You know it's bad when you drag your 20 year old son over to show him the dog's poop in the backyard!

I'm so glad you and I got our 'old ladies' and our baby boys started at the same time. I know how you feel about wishing you had started the old girls out years ago. At least they are on it now and you got your baby going earlier then I did with Rocky. He's going to be such a big healthy sweetheart for you. There's just something about boy dogs and the way they attach themselves to their 'mom's'.

[Jodysmom]

I agree completely!

Don't you just love not playing the kibble game? Buy a new kibble...notice stool is still soft and change to another kibble and so on and so on! Suspect maybe your dog is allergic to some ingredient in kibble and research another kibble that doesn't have that ingredient. Remember spending so much emotional energy trying to find just the right food but you really knew whatever food you chose wasn't biologically appropriate?

Raw feeding...simple. No more kibble game. I've been doing it for 6 weeks
and it is wonderful!

Tami

[Jodysmom]

Chowder...my 14 yr. old son walks my dog everyday and tells me he is still amazed at how easy her poop is to clean up. He was just disgusted by the large, soft, smelly kibble poops. He hated carrying the large poop bag and would be kind of annoyed when he got home. Now when he gets home he always tells me how great her poop was and he add...easy to pick up.

Tami

[luvMyBRT]

Us newbies are becoming a little carried away with how excited we are by it all! You know it's bad when you drag your 20 year old son over to show him the dog's poop in the backyard!

Yup. Just the other day I had the hubby out in the yard showing him how Lucky's poop looked like a rat turd. I think he must have thought I had lost it. He didn't seem as nearly as impressed as I was....

I used to be able to fill a walmart bag with poop almost weekly. We are almost 2 weeks in with raw and the bottom of the poop bucket is only covered. How's that for awesome....

[DaneMama]

And do you realize how happy it makes me feel that all of you guys have come to the dark side?!

All of us raw feeders are so passionate about what we do, that it really is frustrating that we come across as rude or pushy to kibble feeders. But in reality it's just that we have very good reason to be so passionate....raw feeding just WORKS!!!

[chowder]

Chowder...my 14 yr. old son walks my dog everyday and tells me he is still amazed at how easy her poop is to clean up. He was just disgusted by the large, soft, smelly kibble poops. He hated carrying the large poop bag and would be kind of annoyed when he got home. Now when he gets home he always tells me how great her poop was and he add...easy to pick up.

Tami

Do you think maybe we have abnormal teenage boys or something? I read about all these kids who are so much trouble to their parents and here's mine, out in the yard humoring his mom by looking at the dog's poop.

This is what happens when you raise children right....surround them by 7 dogs and cats when they are little babies so they grow up thinking they are just another one of the pack!

[Doc]

My neighbors love it when I rip off my shirt and do my funky poop dance and strut around the yard - head thrown back arms flappin like an eagle, butt stuck out, feet scratching the ground like an old tom, and head shakin up and down. It's a glorious sight indeed ...

[luvMyBRT]

My neighbors love it when I rip off my shirt and do my funky poop dance and strut around the yard - head thrown back arms flappin like an eagle, butt stuck out, feet scratching the ground like an old tom, and head shakin up and down. It's a glorious sight indeed ...

Oh....so is THIS what I am supposed to do when I come across a doo doo from a 50 pound dog that looks like a mouse turd??? Remember, I'm still new at this and learning.