giving in to the peer pressure: Maddie goes RAW

Some dog lovin' friends of mine where in town last weekend.  We took a trip up to Breck and stayed at a friend's cabin.  There were seven of us total and everyone except me was a convert to the RAW doggie diet.  Meg had her dogs with her and when dinner time came they asked if Maddie could have a turkey neck.  I figured it couldn't hurt and it would give me a chance to see if I could watch her eat without losing my dinner.

It took Maddie about half an hour to get through that first turkey neck.  At first she wasn't sure about it and didn't get that she really had to put some power into it to chew that thing into bite size pieces.  It was dark out and we were feeding them outside, so I couldn't actually SEE what she was eating.  Which was a good thing for me.

The next evening she got turkey neck #2 ... and I got to watch her eat it in broad daylight ...

 

Thus began our journey into the world of RAW.  For the last week and a half Maddie has been on a half kibble/half RAW diet.  She gets her super premium organic kibble in the morning and then a hunk of dead animal at night.  So far its mostly been various chicken parts - backs, leg quarters, hearts, and gizzards.  

 

And I have become a meat shopping maniac.  For someone who went five years without having a bite of meat herself, my freezer is now full of the stuff.  Now that I spend a lot more time perusing the meat section of the grocery store I am SHOCKED at what people actually eat.  Yuck.  

So far, so good.  The only real change thus far has been the consistency of her poop, which went from mushy stinky mounds to nice round pellets that hardly stink at all.  That's pretty cool.