I want to put my pit pup on a raw food diet. She is 3 months and highly active. How much money would it take? And how do I transition her into it?|||I hate to disagree with Kathleen as an experienced poster but I would say the opposite. Firstly I raw feed and really don't find it expensive at all as long as you source your food well. I feed each rottweiler for about 拢1.25 per day - maybe 拢1.50 with extra goodies like free range eggs etc. As for transitioning then if the pup has already come this far on kibble then I would swith gradually. Totally agree about the different digestion rates for sure but what it does is puts a strain on the pancreas, however if only in the short term while transitioning then it should be ok. Everything I've read on swapping for a young pup as this is, is to transition. Just helped a girl from here do exactly the same with her 8 week old rottie as she just swapped straight over and the dog got the runs badly. Took her back a step and the dog was fine. So how I would recommend is chicken as the only raw meat for a week or two, and start adding a bit to the kibble at each meal. No runs then keep increasing - any sign of runs then slow down. Best of luck and do research as variety of animal and cut of meat is important. Do add each protein source gradually and keep beef until last.|||You need to do a lot more research on it. Yes, it's largely the way dogs would eat in the wild. However, in a natural setting, dogs are actually omnivores. They usually eat the stomach of their prey first, thus taking in everything that the prey animal had eaten as well. If you feed her nothing but meat, she'll lose out on nutrients. You should also know that since raw diets for dogs have started growing in popularity, there has been a distinct surge in cases of food poisoning and salmonella in dogs. Modern slaughterhouses are not sanitary so meat is very often contaminated. Cooking kills those contaminants, but if you're not cooking your dog's meat... she's more than likely going to get sick.|||I'm not sure how much it would cost, but I do know that when switching foods with a dog, if one day he eats one type of food, then the next a totally different type, he will have diarrhea. So the first day with the new diet, give him 1/4 of the new food, and the rest what he's been eating, keep it like this for two days, then 1/2 new, 1/2 old; keep it like this for about two days too. Then 1/4 old, 3/4 new, for about three days. Then all new.|||It's expensive. You have to fast the dog for 24 hours in order to clear the digestive tract of all traces of commercial dog food. This will prevent a blockage since the two different foods digest at different rates.|||It's,actually as cheap as grocery store kibble in the US. I recommend this guy's book. http://healthydogforlife.com/ Other good sites are http://drpitcairn.com/ http://thenaturallyhealthydog.com/ http://barfworld.com/ http://rawmeatybones.com/

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