Raw Feeding Your Dog!? Our Experiences and Tips
have you ever asked yourself what your
dog or a cat should be easy is it this
is this what there should be a little
pellets of food food pellets most of my
life I haven’t really thought too much
about what we feed our pets
I just always assumed you go to the pet
store you get the pet food feed your
pets as with everything though I’ve come
to realize that’s not how you do it
because when you go to the grocery store
you buy human food they don’t really
sell you human food either I mean with
pet food you look for the cheapest
what’s on sale well can I get so should
cats be eating like wild lions and their
relatives I think they’re related in
some way right like whines Bobcats
things like that no they shouldn’t be
eating one another it sounded you said
should they be eating lions no similar
just domesticated versus wild
sir dogs be eating like wild dogs and
wolves and coyotes again it sounds like
they should be if you ask that well I
think that’s a good place to start for
sure so what are these things eat the
majority of their diet is meat by
majority if you mean 100% then yeah
so almost they’re starving or something
right yeah they would eat like grass and
none so probably eight other weird stuff
but mostly me here’s one thing I bet you
that none of these animals do eat in
nature a bowl of cooked oatmeal or carb
heavy diets anyway pea protein isolate
and I’m here today with yogi Joe and
bode a happy healthy vegan cats and I
thought I’m whip up a batch of their
favorite food so why are you feeding
your pet oatmeal probably because you
didn’t know any better that’s why we
were feeding our pets oatmeal too it was
convenient
it wasn’t she that’s big for sure so
what is in normal pet food and this is
actually like not normal this is like
you know brand we thought was we were
doing better good pet food green free
pet food which is better but it’s not
great still so it this is pretty good
ingredients salmon chicken meal
pea protein tapioca potato protein and
it’s just like it’s into like a bunch of
weird stuff right it wouldn’t be that
big of a problem if there wasn’t a
canine and feline obesity epidemic right
that’s heard of that I don’t know what
the exact numbers maybe I’ll overlay
them on the screen but a lot of dogs and
cats are obese and they have diabetes
too so the change we’ve reached
about the past four months is we
transitioned our cat and dog Julius and
Miley to raw food so it’s basically just
the animal in hold there’s like bone
chunks there’s the gland so like the
liver the heart the kidneys as well as
the muscle meat of the animal yeah they
take an entire animal and just blend it
into food for the pets basically and
obviously they took to it like fish to
water
there wasn’t any transition period or
any really issues with their like bowel
movements or anything they ate it up
immediately and they really enjoyed it
okay so let’s go into some pros and cons
of doing the raw feeding a lot of you
guys have asked us about this but we’re
like kind of rookies you only been doing
it for four months so do you research on
this for sure but I think one thing that
is for sure is you don’t want to just be
like buying ground beef from the store
and feeding them it has to be
nutritionally complete right we just
found out actually recently cats can’t
produce endogenous taurine and so they
need a certain amount of taurine that is
usually up to standard in raw food that
you buy which may not exist if you were
just doing ground beef at home on your
own pros and cons the biggest pros of
course it’s a million times better for
the your pets so healthier better bowel
movements okay so that’s a big one for
Julius he’s very particular he’s our dog
he will like prance around for like 20
minutes sometimes before doing the raw
feeding and he just wouldn’t ever find a
place to poop and it was really annoying
and he would go multiple times per day
like twice three and it’d be like
relatively voluminous we’re getting
really in-depth with this now but I want
to say six ounces half of a coke can
full that was really specific but now
he’s basically like clockwork he goes to
the bathroom in the morning or if he’s
in a new area where he gets like new
smells he’ll go to the bathroom just
immediately yeah but every morning you
just squeeze out like a little bit a
little like maybe like a 5-hour energy
worth essentially the poop is a lot more
compact it’s harder and consistent very
hard it’s like rabbit poop all smashed
together like we can digest carbs a
little bit dogs like they’ve never eaten
plants in their existence iron so why
start now another Pro is that Miley is
not as obsessed with her food she’s
still like a little like she’ll bother
us not as depend
yeah but we used to just leave her food
out and now we feed her twice a day and
personally from what we’ve seen Miley
has like some eye issues those have
cleared up she’s a lot more active and
she she doesn’t want to just hide in the
basement all the time she hangs out she
plays she’s like turned into her younger
self again big-time that’s actually the
reason we started doing this because we
thought she had to have surgery yeah so
like relieved her congestion she was
sneezing up a bunch of boogies yeah and
then julius is also he’s put on some
weight he’s definitely like become a
healthier weight he’s a lot more active
probably going like four pounds yeah at
least but he definitely needed it and
he’s a lot more active like we said and
there’s probably some placebo effect too
because obviously we’re going to all
these lengths to feed them raw food so
of course we’re gonna be like oh man
Miley’s back to her old self I think
that’s most of the pros cons there’s
definitely some cons yeah
nothing health wise or nothing with the
pets at all mostly just time consumption
the whole logistics of feeding them raw
food like traveling the first thing is
you have to basically like you’re
cooking for yourself like you have to
defrost the stuff what we do is like
weekly we defrost their weeks worth of
food keep it in the fridge just scoop it
out yeah it’s not that time-consuming
it’s five to seven minutes weekly the
big con though is cost and that is gonna
be definitely prohibitive to some people
I broke down the cost of different
options so what we do is we use Answers
raw food it’s just like ground-up almost
like hamburger meat that is one of the
better cost-effective ways you’re
actually going to a store buying raw
meat but they do make like freeze-dried
stuff that you can basically use in
place of the kibble like the dried food
you would have been using and that is
like just crazy expensive Pro to that is
that it outweighs the con of traveling
so if you are traveling once in a while
or you take your dog or your cat than
having the freeze-dried food and just
rehydrating it with some water is a lot
easier than packing a cold package for
your raw food yeah that’s what we do
when we travel standard pet food off the
shelf at Walmart Purina brand for 100
calories of dog food it’s seven cents
the cheapest raw food you can get we
started with this and then we looked
reviews and they had like a bunch of
recalls and like dogs done shifty look
into it Blue Ridge it’s called that is
20 cents for 100 calories so that’s like
almost as cheap as that’s doable
yeah for sure the stuff we use answers
brand which is like a reputable good I
feel like they care about your dog
that’s 60 cents for 100 calories still
very doable it is but it’s 10 times more
expensive than the dry food the
freeze-dried stuff like we’re talking
about for travel that is one dollar and
40 cents for 100 calories which is why
we don’t that’s not the preferred route
it’s the most convenient so like if you
are a billionaire on-the-go CEO that’s
probably what you should go with
essentially like we have 30 pounds of
animals under our watch like Julius is
about 20 mile is like nine ish yeah
pushing 10 and it cost us $100 a month
to feed them whereas before it probably
cost us like 2030 but again that is the
that is what we took on when we adopted
these pets I don’t like being like a
preachy pet owner like do you what you
want to do with your pets no I feel very
strongly about this now especially like
if you have kids dogs and cats can get
set aside but like they’re essentially
your kids right like you do feed you I
mean some parents feed their kids though
I guess like McDonald all the time I
think most of it is just out of not
knowing better we didn’t know better
that’s true we also we’ve like upgraded
Miley’s litter so we’re like making
steps but for a really long time we’re
just going cheaper out whatever we could
find an adult spending a bunch of money
on your dog when you can’t afford good
quality food for yourself it’s not
really a priority right but I always say
to those people don’t get a dog it’s
always what I’ve said I don’t know it’s
tough transitioning your pets from dry
food to raw food how do you do it
most places will tell you to just do it
kind of slowly over time yeah like over
the course of a month what I was
surprised at was like Miley is like
classically addicted to the dry food
yeah and she’s very picky like we get
her treats all the time we just want to
spend money or like let us spend money
on you Miley and we give her the treats
and she’s like now I want my food I want
my normal food
yeah never ate a treat in her entire
life we tried those greedy things where
you put the pill inside of it just like
no chance yeah so we just have to shove
pills down her throat we practiced one
day we just cut up like some chicken
hearts and she shoot him down like
nothing like she’s been doing it for
years yeah I was taken aback I was like
so impressed I was so proud as a mama or
anywhere off food we put on a plate for
her she’s gonna gobble down like she
took to it a lot better I would even say
been Julius dude I mean Julius
immediately ate it all yeah but so he
was a little like what is this is very
different than my normal food so what we
did was we were doing like the classic
just high carb food just whatever is
cheap whatever we bought then we were
like you know what let’s make a
concerted effort let’s go brain free so
one grain free the crave is what you
just saw yeah that’s brain free 40% high
in protein I’m like whoa 40% that’s a
lot that’s great then we were like is
this even that good we shop at Whole
Foods we should get our pets food from
Whole Foods their refrigerator
refrigerated it’s refrigerated that
generally means it’s better so we were
doing that for a little bit and the
fresh pet is like as expensive as raw
food it’s super expensive so after doing
that probably for like just a couple
weeks we were like why don’t we just do
raw like it makes no sense why are we
doing this slow transition and then we
we were doing like the half and half
with Julius right we were doing half
refrigerated food half raw I felt like
that was pointless at the end of the day
yeah because he took to the raw really
well so I think going back differently
what I would do is just cut everything
out that we did and go straight to rock
I think Miley we did what food I think
that was kind of good she might have
needed that
yeah Miley was dry too wet too raw
do you think pets do need to transition
some of the bags say it we’re not
veterinarians I don’t know anything
about pets like what they need I would
imagine yeah they’re just like same with
humans when you sure a Stickley change
your diet
it’s just digestive discomfort and stuff
I guess one other thing is so like we
have 30 pounds of pets in the house
weird that you say that I’m just
thinking if you have a hundred pound dog
or something yeah that might get real
costly you know like that’s almost $300
a month probably that could be tough I
don’t
No would I do that I probably would I
guess we would it’s definitely tough it
gets pricey for sure
four months into being elitist raw
feeding pet owners would we do it again
would we do it all over of course pretty
easy decision I would say we would
definitely do it again because it’s
really helping Miley and I think it just
is more in line with like our beliefs
and stuff feed ourselves good food why
would we feed our pets gross like
potatoes and stuff that they would never
eat naturally so I think this is
something for you to consider as a pet
parent pet owner hopefully you took
something away and if you’re happy if
your pet is definitely having health
issues I think this is a pressure a
potential route to go to help with that
as opposed to like you know injections
or surgeries because that’s also very
very costly so you can omit that by
feeding them raw but we’re not
veterinarian no no no but they know that
like they do I don’t have a vet degree
hanging up well that’s it guys what do
you think about this comment below do
you think it’s insane to care this much
about your pets or are you one of those
pet owners who always comments on our
videos that we should be like Buckland
Julius up in a seatbelt which one are
you
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