I get natural peacock feathers as my cats fav toy. She loves to grab those feathers and strip the ends off them and crunch on the stalks as well. She just loves eating feather so this makes total sense. Thanks for posting
My boys love them too! Once the feather 'breaks' I leave it on the floor for them to bat around and chew on. Some of them get pretty mangled. I try and strip them after a few days to toss outside for the birds and keep the plume. . .not sure what I'll do with them yet. . .probably make another toy.
You mentioned frozen rats and mice at pet stores. These rats and mice are sold for snakes only! I was told that these rats and mice are gassed, this apparently doesn’t harm the snakes when they eat the rats, but it could have adverse effects on cats or dogs.
Another really informative video. So appreciate your valuable advice for us cat owners. It's so lacking in the raw food community. I also appreciate that your followers share great info, as well. Your channel rocks!
This takes raw to a whole new level. I was aware of what wild canines did but never though about how to come up with fir. My dog has seemed to do ok with some vegetables and he eats plenty of pork necks, chicken legs, chicken feet. Always regular and always compact and firm. Dries to white powder in days.
Plenty of plants have low glycemic indexes and high fiber and are not legumes. You kind of glossed over them in the middle. Not sure I can handle giving my pet a whole animal with the fur or feathers, so I’m gonna stick with those optimal veggies-unless there’s a convenient way to get it into my pet’s food. Also, quinoa and barley are grains with relatively high fiber and relatively low glycemic indices. Also, how about feather meal? I don’t see a lot of availability but I think this could be a good way to get insoluble fiber without uhhhh dropping a carcass on your living room floor.
I swapped my babies over to quinoa as a fiber source, they are doing amazing on it & love it! I had one baby that had problems with brown rice, no matter what kind I bought, & white rice really isn’t the healthiest choice. They don’t get it every day, it’s just one of their fiber sources. I’ve also found a couple of pasta options that are made from nothing but quinoa & sweet potatoes as one example. I do a homemade pasta sauce w/bone broth &/or goat milk, goat cheese, & swap out the pasta flavor with pumpkin purée (this has made all the difference in the world for my Roxy’s allergies.. our vet recommended this), mashed sweet potatoes or mashed butternut squash. For us it was about finding what works for us, & for each of my babies. They get all of the nutrients, vitamins & everything they need, I just prepare it in a non traditional way.. their meals look very gourmet. I enjoy it a lot though, it has really helped me through a difficult time. And I’ve worked hard to find ways to make sure that everything they eat is 100% healthy & nutritious for them, while still looking like a 5 Star prepared gourmet neal. I love watching other pet parents & learning new things too! It’s been quite the journey from when I very first started several years ago. I most certainly handle, cook, etc. a lot that I never thought I could handle, & a lot that I still struggle with. I have a very sensitive super nose that smell’s everything & at a heightened sense! A lot that may not smell bad to others, or be strong, is very hard for me! To the point that I will gag, even throw up. Making their homemade bone broth is one of the most difficult tasks because it has to slow cook for so long to get all of the vitamins & nutrients from the bones into the broth. I use goat milk in their diets, which has been a big hit & help since it’s been added! I however struggle with the smell very much. The organ meats have quite strong & distinctive smells. So handling an entire carcass seems like something I’m just not sure I could do either.. and I would literally give my life to protect my babies!!!!
@@lucy_knight8174 ya know my parents and even my grandparents said that all of there dogs always ate the same foods that the family ate. Keep in mind this was before the Standard American Diet food chart, and commercial dog food got pushed on everyone. So there was little to none processed foods around. The dogs never ate any dead animals, or anything raw.
I for sure thought she was going to say “stomach contents!” Lol I feel like it may have been touched on in another video though. Anyway, yeah, stomach/digestive tract contents of herbivores will have partially digested plant matter that carnivores then can digest.
The problem is though that fur and feather covered parts arent always available. And some pets wont consume it. Plus veggies contain antiinflammatory compounds. It is good to alternate though. Also wild animals dont eat the whole prey. Or it rather depends on the prey species. In the case of rodents and birds, Yes, they eat the entire prey. With large prey though, they only eat the organs and flesh, max some of the GI tract. But leave the spine, dense bones, skull, skin, hooves and most of the GI tract intact.
Yep, it does often depend on the prey species! Even in larger prey animals, some of the hide is still consumed. But they do mainly go for the meat, organs, and smaller bones.
I think this makes sense, however I find that when I get the bone to meat ratio right my dogs have very healthy well formed poops. I am on a zero carb, zero fiber diet myself and I can tell you from first hand experience that fiber is not necessary to poop. In fact for me it causes constipation which is the main reason I eliminated it from my diet.
Bone actually has it's own fiber in it as well - so that's definitely why! I wouldn't say does a great job at bulking, but it's amazing at firming. Tendons and ligaments are also a form of animal-based fiber.
@@PawsofPrey Their poops seem bulky enough unless I mess up something, mainly bone percentage, which I have failed miserably at a few times in tweaking their diet. They have never had anal gland issues in spite of my mistakes over the past 13 years of homemade raw. I also discovered that too much bone does not always result in constipation. It can cause other poop havoc as well!
Matsu and Tangy have never had anal gland issues on a fur-less/veg-less diet either. So bone is doing it's job! Some pets just have anal glands that need that extra help. And what other poop havoc do you mean?
@PawsofPrey I have discovered that if I feed a little too much bone, the stools get hard and crumbly. If I feed WAY too much bone, this can actually result in what appears to be diarrhea or frequent loose stools! I think this can be because too much bone at once can overwhelm their system and cause some digestive difficulties. My dogs are very small so it does not take too much to overwhelm the system. And as they have gotten to be 15 years old they need less bone. Anyway, I believe they only have so much acid in their stomach to digest bone so too much bone at once could make it difficult for them to digest and cause issues. So sometimes you have to be careful NOT to add more bone because the problem may actually be too much bone!
I raise rabbits solely as food for my dogs and cats (two each) - don't fret, the rabbits are raised free range on pasture and slaughtered humanely, they literally have one bad day. My large male lab will eat a whole rabbit, but my older finnicky dog (who has been raw fed her whole life, but only recently introduced to whole prey) will eat nothing with fur on it. Any tips? I've tried dried cow's ears with fur, chicks, smaller rabbits and dried rabbit ears, but she just won't touch them. Love your content, imho the only raw feeding channel worth watching!
I think some domestic animals just befriend wildlife just as we do. I have seen my cat befriend a helpless bird that fell from a nest. He gave it kisses and snuggled it instead of eating it like he usually would. They are not so different than us sometimes.
Thank you for this videos specifically, I have been very suspicious of the amount and type of “veggie” content some natural pet food seems to have - or worse, advertise they have (as if our cats need that amount of potato and pumpkin 😅) so this is very useful! I know this channel is mostly focused of nutrition and feeding, but do you guys also employ natural ingredients / mechanics for grooming your animals? Or rather, do cats and ferrets even need human-intervention grooming?
Can you teach on how diet is affected by cat eating or chewing on grass? I hear cats interact with those n at times chew on them, and can benefit from them too. But i dont see a lot of videos on that.
What about raw bone as a fibre source? Surely that bulks up their stools too (ground in a complete raw feed or whole bones given for them to chew and digest)?
We have turkeys roaming around the street, and they shed a lot of feathers. Is it safe to let the dog pick up turkey feathers and consume them? My dog is trying very hard to grab them.
Hi! I have a local reptile store near me but they only sell mice and idk about chicks. Can dogs eat mice? Also if I do end up buying whole prey chicks, anything I have to remove?
OMG!! I thought this was going to be helpful, there's no way I can get fur or feathers to feed to my dog here where I live, I can't give him bones, I've tried all kinds, but he's a Frenchie and tries to swallow them straight down and injures himself, can't give him chicken because he's allergic. He's had infected anal glands twice and I'm using peas, carrots, green beans and pumpkin, I know it's not ideal, but don't know what else to do. Should I collect the feathers from my own chickens and grind them up in his food? He's allergic to chicken!!! I give him whole raw fish once a week, with skin and scales, maybe more of that?
I love feeding my low content wolf dog raw, but oh man is he a picky eater, he won't even chew up a regular meaty bone. He was on kibble for the first part of his life, until I learned how bad it is. Coaxing him into eating anything other than meat and some organs is a challenge! Any tips on how to get them to eat more types of healthy raw foods? P.s. if he sees a vegetable, or any type of bone, he'll just walk away lmao. Might have to just get a industrial grinder to get the bones in his diet
Question....i did an allergy test on my dog and they put on their that it matters if he has grass fed beef or grain fed. Do you think that really matters if the beef was grass fed or grain fed?
The allergy is to pesticides/herbicides used on grains. Pesticides/herbicides will remain in the grains which the cows will eat and keep in their fat. So for simplicity yeah, but I suppose you could find beef fed grains without pesticides/herbicides or gmo to produce its own pesticides/herbicides, though I doubt you ll find it in the U.S
@gustavohopkins242 ah ok, I didn't even think of that. It's just hard to find liver and kidneys in the store that are grass fed. 90% of packages do not say it at all. Thank you though
I keep seeing that dogs should have these starches because otherwise they will develop some sort of disease ( the name eludes me) and they have shorter lives.
Vegetables are great. Just make sure they’re cooked properly. Here’s what fiber sources my lil boi gets mixed in his diet on the regular. - Spinach - Broccoli - Asparagus - Red Bell Pepper - Carrot - White Button Mushroom - Butternut Squash - Blueberry - Blackberry
Just found your channel today. I want to feed my dog a raw diet, but my fiancé is worried that it’ll harm him because of it being raw, after she did research(google). I said it’ll be better and even more natural for him but I don’t have all facts.
I have parrots as well as dogs. I have taken up the habit of collecting the little down feathers and adding them to the raw or gently cooked meals I feed the dogs. Helps scour out the guts. I do think that the general trend of adding lots of vegetables to home prepared dog food is not species appropriate. My big concern about relying only on vegetation for fiber for a canid diet is that it will skew the GI microbiome in a weird way. Vibrant health is dependent on a species appropriate microbiome and that depends on feeding the species appropriate food and fiber.
Cats, dogs and humans all have very similar digestive systems. NONE of us are supposed to eat Carbs, grains, plants etc. We are all obligate carnivores
Never feed your dog or cat legumes! The legumes cause the heart to enlarge ! My girl almost died from DCM thank God for this channel, I’ve been able to provide a Raw diet that is completely nutritional and balanced! My girl is no longer in DCM !!! ❤️🔥👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🤍
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I love your channel because you mention about the cats not only dogs
Cats are the true obligate carnivores!
Same! I have two dogs and three cats, so it’s definitely a time saver! 😁
I get natural peacock feathers as my cats fav toy. She loves to grab those feathers and strip the ends off them and crunch on the stalks as well. She just loves eating feather so this makes total sense. Thanks for posting
Aw cool! That's a fun toy, I should get one of those lol
My boys love them too! Once the feather 'breaks' I leave it on the floor for them to bat around and chew on. Some of them get pretty mangled. I try and strip them after a few days to toss outside for the birds and keep the plume. . .not sure what I'll do with them yet. . .probably make another toy.
You mentioned frozen rats and mice at pet stores. These rats and mice are sold for snakes only! I was told that these rats and mice are gassed, this apparently doesn’t harm the snakes when they eat the rats, but it could have adverse effects on cats or dogs.
Another really informative video. So appreciate your valuable advice for us cat owners. It's so lacking in the raw food community. I also appreciate that your followers share great info, as well. Your channel rocks!
Carrots make my Rainn itch and he spits out other veg, no matter how I prepare it, so he has fur a couple of times a week 😊 Great advice as always!
This takes raw to a whole new level. I was aware of what wild canines did but never though about how to come up with fir. My dog has seemed to do ok with some vegetables and he eats plenty of pork necks, chicken legs, chicken feet. Always regular and always compact and firm. Dries to white powder in days.
Kale, spinach, chard, and sunflower seeds are what I put in my batches for my cats. Perfect stool every time.
Plenty of plants have low glycemic indexes and high fiber and are not legumes. You kind of glossed over them in the middle. Not sure I can handle giving my pet a whole animal with the fur or feathers, so I’m gonna stick with those optimal veggies-unless there’s a convenient way to get it into my pet’s food. Also, quinoa and barley are grains with relatively high fiber and relatively low glycemic indices. Also, how about feather meal? I don’t see a lot of availability but I think this could be a good way to get insoluble fiber without uhhhh dropping a carcass on your living room floor.
I swapped my babies over to quinoa as a fiber source, they are doing amazing on it & love it! I had one baby that had problems with brown rice, no matter what kind I bought, & white rice really isn’t the healthiest choice. They don’t get it every day, it’s just one of their fiber sources. I’ve also found a couple of pasta options that are made from nothing but quinoa & sweet potatoes as one example. I do a homemade pasta sauce w/bone broth &/or goat milk, goat cheese, & swap out the pasta flavor with pumpkin purée (this has made all the difference in the world for my Roxy’s allergies.. our vet recommended this), mashed sweet potatoes or mashed butternut squash. For us it was about finding what works for us, & for each of my babies. They get all of the nutrients, vitamins & everything they need, I just prepare it in a non traditional way.. their meals look very gourmet. I enjoy it a lot though, it has really helped me through a difficult time. And I’ve worked hard to find ways to make sure that everything they eat is 100% healthy & nutritious for them, while still looking like a 5 Star prepared gourmet neal. I love watching other pet parents & learning new things too! It’s been quite the journey from when I very first started several years ago. I most certainly handle, cook, etc. a lot that I never thought I could handle, & a lot that I still struggle with. I have a very sensitive super nose that smell’s everything & at a heightened sense! A lot that may not smell bad to others, or be strong, is very hard for me! To the point that I will gag, even throw up. Making their homemade bone broth is one of the most difficult tasks because it has to slow cook for so long to get all of the vitamins & nutrients from the bones into the broth. I use goat milk in their diets, which has been a big hit & help since it’s been added! I however struggle with the smell very much. The organ meats have quite strong & distinctive smells. So handling an entire carcass seems like something I’m just not sure I could do either.. and I would literally give my life to protect my babies!!!!
@@lucy_knight8174 ya know my parents and even my grandparents said that all of there dogs always ate the same foods that the family ate. Keep in mind this was before the Standard American Diet food chart, and commercial dog food got pushed on everyone. So there was little to none processed foods around. The dogs never ate any dead animals, or anything raw.
I for sure thought she was going to say “stomach contents!” Lol I feel like it may have been touched on in another video though. Anyway, yeah, stomach/digestive tract contents of herbivores will have partially digested plant matter that carnivores then can digest.
This is amazing information! Thankyou! You help inspire me to keep giving my kitties the best diet
The problem is though that fur and feather covered parts arent always available. And some pets wont consume it. Plus veggies contain antiinflammatory compounds. It is good to alternate though.
Also wild animals dont eat the whole prey. Or it rather depends on the prey species. In the case of rodents and birds, Yes, they eat the entire prey. With large prey though, they only eat the organs and flesh, max some of the GI tract. But leave the spine, dense bones, skull, skin, hooves and most of the GI tract intact.
Yep, it does often depend on the prey species! Even in larger prey animals, some of the hide is still consumed. But they do mainly go for the meat, organs, and smaller bones.
I think this makes sense, however I find that when I get the bone to meat ratio right my dogs have very healthy well formed poops. I am on a zero carb, zero fiber diet myself and I can tell you from first hand experience that fiber is not necessary to poop. In fact for me it causes constipation which is the main reason I eliminated it from my diet.
Bone actually has it's own fiber in it as well - so that's definitely why! I wouldn't say does a great job at bulking, but it's amazing at firming. Tendons and ligaments are also a form of animal-based fiber.
@@PawsofPrey Their poops seem bulky enough unless I mess up something, mainly bone percentage, which I have failed miserably at a few times in tweaking their diet. They have never had anal gland issues in spite of my mistakes over the past 13 years of homemade raw. I also discovered that too much bone does not always result in constipation. It can cause other poop havoc as well!
Matsu and Tangy have never had anal gland issues on a fur-less/veg-less diet either. So bone is doing it's job! Some pets just have anal glands that need that extra help. And what other poop havoc do you mean?
@PawsofPrey I have discovered that if I feed a little too much bone, the stools get hard and crumbly. If I feed WAY too much bone, this can actually result in what appears to be diarrhea or frequent loose stools! I think this can be because too much bone at once can overwhelm their system and cause some digestive difficulties. My dogs are very small so it does not take too much to overwhelm the system. And as they have gotten to be 15 years old they need less bone. Anyway, I believe they only have so much acid in their stomach to digest bone so too much bone at once could make it difficult for them to digest and cause issues. So sometimes you have to be careful NOT to add more bone because the problem may actually be too much bone!
Love your content and emails!!😊
I love this channel! Thank you !
I raise rabbits solely as food for my dogs and cats (two each) - don't fret, the rabbits are raised free range on pasture and slaughtered humanely, they literally have one bad day. My large male lab will eat a whole rabbit, but my older finnicky dog (who has been raw fed her whole life, but only recently introduced to whole prey) will eat nothing with fur on it. Any tips? I've tried dried cow's ears with fur, chicks, smaller rabbits and dried rabbit ears, but she just won't touch them.
Love your content, imho the only raw feeding channel worth watching!
I found partially freezing the whole prey helps! My dog won’t eat it any other way!
I think some domestic animals just befriend wildlife just as we do. I have seen my cat befriend a helpless bird that fell from a nest. He gave it kisses and snuggled it instead of eating it like he usually would. They are not so different than us sometimes.
Thank you for this videos specifically, I have been very suspicious of the amount and type of “veggie” content some natural pet food seems to have - or worse, advertise they have (as if our cats need that amount of potato and pumpkin 😅) so this is very useful!
I know this channel is mostly focused of nutrition and feeding, but do you guys also employ natural ingredients / mechanics for grooming your animals? Or rather, do cats and ferrets even need human-intervention grooming?
Raw bone bulks the stools, too. Great video!
Bone helps firm it for sure, and can add some fiber as well! Same with ligaments.
Love this channel and the information you provide! 😀 Any tips to encourage pets who are newly learning to eat raw, to eat whole prey?
Can you teach on how diet is affected by cat eating or chewing on grass? I hear cats interact with those n at times chew on them, and can benefit from them too. But i dont see a lot of videos on that.
Cats and dogs love eating grass.
Can we process fiber to make it more beneficial for dogs?
Great video! Are dehydrated chicken heads with hair/feathers still just as good?
How often are you feeding them the fur and feathers?
What about raw bone as a fibre source? Surely that bulks up their stools too (ground in a complete raw feed or whole bones given for them to chew and digest)?
We have turkeys roaming around the street, and they shed a lot of feathers. Is it safe to let the dog pick up turkey feathers and consume them? My dog is trying very hard to grab them.
I feed my pup all parts of Turkey, including feathers. I’d say it’s perfectly fine, but I am not a professional just a dedicated dog mom!
Grass, I've seen my dog eat wild grass to stiffen his stool. But I've found a brand named Bernies perfect poop it's been helpful.
Nice!
I was hoping to hear other alternative to fur and feathers, like a suppliment that is shelf stable..
Pumpkin powder is a great choice, as is psyllium husk
@@Aimee0206 cool thanks!
What about all the bacteria in the fur that comes in contact with raw meat?
Hi! I have a local reptile store near me but they only sell mice and idk about chicks. Can dogs eat mice? Also if I do end up buying whole prey chicks, anything I have to remove?
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OMG!! I thought this was going to be helpful, there's no way I can get fur or feathers to feed to my dog here where I live, I can't give him bones, I've tried all kinds, but he's a Frenchie and tries to swallow them straight down and injures himself, can't give him chicken because he's allergic. He's had infected anal glands twice and I'm using peas, carrots, green beans and pumpkin, I know it's not ideal, but don't know what else to do. Should I collect the feathers from my own chickens and grind them up in his food? He's allergic to chicken!!! I give him whole raw fish once a week, with skin and scales, maybe more of that?
I love feeding my low content wolf dog raw, but oh man is he a picky eater, he won't even chew up a regular meaty bone. He was on kibble for the first part of his life, until I learned how bad it is. Coaxing him into eating anything other than meat and some organs is a challenge! Any tips on how to get them to eat more types of healthy raw foods? P.s. if he sees a vegetable, or any type of bone, he'll just walk away lmao. Might have to just get a industrial grinder to get the bones in his diet
My dogs poo seems really fibrous after eating lots of green tripe. Full of chewed up grass
As usual yiur content is fantastic. Thabk you very much
Mine flat out refuse any and all veggies
Do carnivores really need regular fiber.....?
Question....i did an allergy test on my dog and they put on their that it matters if he has grass fed beef or grain fed. Do you think that really matters if the beef was grass fed or grain fed?
The allergy is to pesticides/herbicides used on grains. Pesticides/herbicides will remain in the grains which the cows will eat and keep in their fat.
So for simplicity yeah, but I suppose you could find beef fed grains without pesticides/herbicides or gmo to produce its own pesticides/herbicides, though I doubt you ll find it in the U.S
@gustavohopkins242 ah ok, I didn't even think of that. It's just hard to find liver and kidneys in the store that are grass fed. 90% of packages do not say it at all. Thank you though
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my dog is an adolescent and loves eating grass and plants. it's actually kind of annoying if i want to let him off leash. lol.
Grass is a source of medicine for dogs, let him eat the grass but not the plants.
Grass is still a beneficial thing to munch on at times!
Yeah, no, I am not feeding whole prey
I keep seeing that dogs should have these starches because otherwise they will develop some sort of disease ( the name eludes me) and they have shorter lives.
Lie
Vegetables are great. Just make sure they’re cooked properly.
Here’s what fiber sources my lil boi gets mixed in his diet on the regular.
- Spinach
- Broccoli
- Asparagus
- Red Bell Pepper
- Carrot
- White Button Mushroom
- Butternut Squash
- Blueberry
- Blackberry
Spinach is one of the worst vegetables to feed any animal. It’s super high in oxalates which can’t be cooked out.
The background music is distracting, fyi. The video is better without it.
You should probably do something about your ADHD if that seriously distracted you…
@@G83tv I don’t have ADHD. Thank you for your concern. 😘
Just found your channel today. I want to feed my dog a raw diet, but my fiancé is worried that it’ll harm him because of it being raw, after she did research(google). I said it’ll be better and even more natural for him but I don’t have all facts.
I have parrots as well as dogs. I have taken up the habit of collecting the little down feathers and adding them to the raw or gently cooked meals I feed the dogs. Helps scour out the guts. I do think that the general trend of adding lots of vegetables to home prepared dog food is not species appropriate. My big concern about relying only on vegetation for fiber for a canid diet is that it will skew the GI microbiome in a weird way. Vibrant health is dependent on a species appropriate microbiome and that depends on feeding the species appropriate food and fiber.
Unbleached Tripe.
This chick blabs on, just tell us what it is!
it is not essential for dogs or humans. Thanks for the video anyways 😊
Thanks for saying "evolved" instead of "are designed", because that's just how it works. Nobody designed anything, beings evolve.
Are you sure?
🙄🙄🤦♀️ this people... seriously 😂😂😂😂
You are making a lot of assertions about which foods can and can't be digested and utilized by dogs. Do you have scientific studies that back them up?
Seriously, this should be common sense 🙄
@@Divinia93 - Right, people should give evidence for their claims. Only gullible people believe everything they are told without evidence
This video is also good for humans. Carnivore is the way to eat. Dump the carbs.
this video's written like a 7th grader trying to hit the 2000 word requirement on an essay... just get to the point!
Cats, dogs and humans all have very similar digestive systems. NONE of us are supposed to eat Carbs, grains, plants etc. We are all obligate carnivores
Bad Video! Dogs are omnivores!
Switch the title to WHY FIBRE IS GOOD FOR YOUR DOG 🙄
Never feed your dog or cat legumes! The legumes cause the heart to enlarge ! My girl almost died from DCM thank God for this channel, I’ve been able to provide a Raw diet that is completely nutritional and balanced!
My girl is no longer in DCM !!! ❤️🔥👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🤍