Diet

You can feed your dog kibble, alot of people do and have dogs that live long full lives. I had 1 amazing dog who couldn’t digest kibble which forced us down a long road of raw food. We’ve done it alot of ways. At times we saved money by getting stuff from farmers to include livers, hearts, kidnies and all that. That turned out to be gross for me and gross for the dogs. Yeah that’s what I said, dogs don’t like the way organs taste. I’ve checked with like 5 dogs and 5 out of 5 didn’t like the organs. they would eat it if i forced them by not feeding them, but they would pass if they weren’t starving. I then moved to premade raw grinds for a while and that was ok. But if you watch documentaries, you’ll notice that even the wolves eat berries and grass and non meat items from time to time, and we use fruit and veggies, and supplements in kibble already so we ended up looking for non-meat options to get the micro-nutrients. You can make your own and save money but i lack time, so I use dr. harvey’s. The instructions say to mix it with hot water, meat, oil and serve. But i find that if you i do that, then denali won’t eat it. so instead of hot water, i mix it with an egg, atleast for dinner when denali is eating. In the morning i just mix it with hot water and some meat for griz. She’ll eat anything.

Now the dogs also get tons of treats and depending on what i’m eating, i usually share. They usually get blueberries, carrots, yogurt, through out the week. Most of the time, griz gets the table scraps to beef up on calories; but if we have something super healthy like salmon and broccoli then both dogs will get some, and I’ll plan ahead and cut some of denali’s food aheat of time

Diet

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Dinner with Griz and Denali

So, I don't feed my dogs the same every day, same way every day. Sometimes they eat only once, sometimes they eat more than once. Um, sometimes they eat, usually they eat this way. This is the most common way, but sometimes I give them fish, sometimes I give them beef. Some [laughter] the Grizz particularly because she's a grownup puppy and I want to save money. I give her a lot of table scraps as long as it's like stuff that I think is okay for her to eat. I basically judge how much to feed them by um their performance. So for Denali, I'm trying to get her to lose weight and it's been a losing battle. So I keep feeding her less. But the big giveaway with her is she gets picky and she doesn't want to eat her vegetables. So when she only eats her meat, she gets fed less. I cut it. And um I keep trying to cut the protein to hopefully get her weight down. She's at 55 lbs. um like to get her down to 50 or 40s. Um and as for Grizz, uh I have been steadily raising her food based upon how often she brings like starts eating stuff that she's not supposed to, like sticks and poop and rocks and whatever. And I also would feed her less if she became less interested in training. But so far, the dog's always [ __ ] hungry, so I just keep feeding her. I do the raw food over the kibble because uh you can't convince me that the kibble is better for them. Just the price of food. If you think about how much it costs to make food and you look at the ingredient list, you cannot tell me that you can feed a living creature for that much money. You know, like the the what goes into kibble is got to be garbage for it to be so cheap. And so I do give kibble as training treats pretty often. And I used to do 50/50 feeding with them um when I didn't have as much money, but things are good now. So um we we're cutting kibble out. I also don't always make Grizz do scent work like nose work searching for the scent boxes for food. Sometimes we go outside and do tracking. Sometimes we work on positions. Sometimes we work healing. Sometimes I cut that meat up smaller so that I can [music] do different stuff with it. But when I'm feeling lazy and like most of the time when I don't want to do much, I make it work for it by looking for the sand boxes.