Totw Vs Raw Feeding….?
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I have 3 dogs
Meridell who is a 130 lb great dane (2 y/o)
Bella who is an 85 lb boxer/airedale terrier mix (6 y/o)
and Sampson our puppy who is an apbt/bloodhound mix weighing in at aroudn 85-90 lbs of muscle (about 10 m/o)
Taste of the Wild is $41.61 for a 30 lb bag
and my other option is raw
(I am getting a job soon so I’m gonna be paying for the food if I want it to be good quality)
which would be less expensive for my dogs?
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I currently feed taste of the wild and my dogs are doing well on it.
11 mo old AKC Bull Terrier
3 Year old American pit bull terrier (mix?)
I looked into raw feeding and it seems like the best deal because you know what you are feeding your dog, but it also seems very expensive and time consuming to make. With a 130 pounds great dane and 2 other dogs its going to cost a lot for raw. Is what I do is feed taste of the wild and then make my own raw treats. That way they get some raw in there diet as well as dog food. You have to be careful when feeding your own food to make sure that you are putting in everything they need. Also make sure they get use to raw slowly or it can make them very sick. Good luck!
Raw us always the best, but you really have to learn how to do it right, research, research please.
I feed Taste of the Wild, all my dogs do great on it, and they eat every bite every meal….
I feed the Roasted Bison and Venison and
The Salmon…….they love all the flavors.
I have a Min Schnauzer, he loves the Salmon
My Akita and Newfie loves the Bison
depends on how smart you shop
Raw can be cheaper in the long run if you invest in a freezer and buy meat in bulk, and buy when you see deals.. it helps if you have butcher shops in your area, or know people who raise animals for meat.. if your limited to grocery stores, it can be more expensive to feed raw.
The RAW Diet is the best and I have used Taste of the Wild in the past. It is an exceptional food but I switched because my dog had some health issues and the RAW was the only one that was going tohelp resolve them. The RAW diet is expensive. I have a 100 lbs Lab and I spend about $35.00 every 4 to 5 days on food.
I feed raw — but I am UK.
It is much cheaper for me to feed raw if I source the meat well. ie go to a butchers and get some free stuff or pay very little for it.
I choose to get a lot of mine from an organic farm and so he charges for that but I don’t mind.
In general I would still say cheaper for raw unless you end up buying human meat at the supermarket. Do you have raw suppliers who deliver in bulk. That is your cheapest method.
If you are willing to study canine nutrition, learn about the BARF diet, and search out inexpensive sources for meat and poultry, raw is better and less expensive. http://www.njboxers.com/faqs.htm
And please don’t ever even consider anything by Purina.
RAW is always best. You should do plenty of research. It’s more than just tossing a raw chicken leg to them.
Just wanted to make a few comments on raw feeding.
First off, I have no doubt that if you do a raw diet well, you can do quite well for your dogs. (I don’t know about cost). The big advantage of a raw/home prepared diet over a commercially prepared diet, is that you have full control over what goes in to your dog’s food.
That is unfortunately also the big disadvantage as well. Done badly, you can end up with some really horrible nutrient deficiencies over the long term.
Other things to be on guard for with a raw diet: The possibility of ‘environmental contamination’. While it may (or may not) be true that the bacteria load in the raw meat doesn’t have a huge effect on the dog, they do shed it in to the environment, meaning you’re increasing the chances of infecting you, or your family members with pathogenic bacteria. Personally, I’d be cooking the food. There is very litte evidence that this significantly alters the nutrient profile (there is *some* preferential destruction of amino acids, but not much — if there was, we’d all be dead, as we cook our food, and have the same (mostly anyways) essential amino acids as dogs).
The next thing is a little more controversial (I’m unaware of any peer reviewed research the supports this one yet, but it seems to be the case anecdotally). There may be some negative long term health risks to feeding a raw diet. There seems to be an increased relative risk of pyloric stenosis with dogs fed a raw diet long term. Basically the exit from the stomach gets scarred over, and narrows. This is pretty major surgery to correct, and requires life long management.
Take the above for what its worth, but above all else, do your research *BEFORE* deciding to feed raw, and make sure that its good, reliable sources you’re looking at, from people who actually have qualifications in nutrition (not just some bozo on the net who says ‘this is what I feed my dogs, and they look healthy’).
Raw could be depending on what you feed. I fed TOTW before then switched back to purina selects. My dogs will always be on selects, try that.
Wow Thumbs down just because my dogs are doing great on purina pro plan selects!