I Was Wondering If Anyone Could Help Me In Answering Some Questions About Raw Feeding?
I have a 3 pound chihuahua and he is really skinny. He seems to eat a lot but never gains any weight. I have taken him to the vet and had blood work done and hes also regularly dewormed. Right now he’s eating percription hills dental diet dog food mixed with the wet percription hills J/D dog food. I also feed him sardines and tune or salmon a few times a week because his stool is sometimes very dry. I’ve been doing some research and seen some menus saying He should eat 2-3% of his ideal body weight which is confusing I’m not really sure how much that is or which foods to feed him. If someone could give me a weekly menu with amounts to feed him I would be very greatful as its getting colder out and he need a little body fat. Thank you all so much for your time.
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Hello! I don’t necessarily have any diet plans, but I do highly recommend raw foods. Canines are not obligate carnivores like felines, but they are primarily carnivorous creatures. They need a very high ratio of fresh muscle and organ meat and raw meaty bones, and will occasionally eat fruits. People will fuss and say you shouldn’t base a domestic dog’s diet on what his cousins (wolves, coyotes, fox) eat, but feral domestic dogs eat what wild dogs eat, so where’s the sense in that? And humans are the only creature in the world that cook the food we eat, and yet we also have more disease, disability and cancers than any other creature in the world.
So after studying nutrition for years, I have now concluded that a diet of raw food is the only way to go. Personally, I have completely cut out processed foods (including all fast food, restaurant food, and nearly 90% of everything in your normal supermarket), and I’ve lost 20 lbs in 3 months. All I changed was my diet. Fresh foods are full of enzymes that are destroyed by the cooking process and are necessary for digestive health – pancreatitis is a common side effect of a poor diet of commercial food.
I would recommend starting your dog on fresh, raw muscle and organ meats and meaty bones. If a dog has never experienced food like this before, they may resist initially. But no hungry dog will turn down food, so don’t worry about starving your dog. At first you may want to buy a premium, organic grain-free dry food (check out the food from Canidae) and feed your dog have dry food and half food. Canidae is pricey, but it’s far more expensive to try to ‘fix’ your dog’s failing health a few years down the road with surgeries and medicine. Also, for a tiny Chihuahua, a bag of high-quality food will last you quite some time. I also don’t recommend Science Diet foods – they’re full of corn, which dogs simply cannot digest properly. Dogs aren’t cows – they aren’t made to eat corn, they’re made to process meat proteins. And veterinarians don’t receive much information regarding nutrition – it’s a specialty they have to strive for and research independently, and the business of pet food companies wooing doctors after graduation is rampant.
Food truly is the best medicine, and you sound open to ideas concerning health, so I’ll elaborate a little.
Speaking of health, it is unfortunately a well-known fact that the food in this country has been going downhill since the early 20th century, and our food today is so perverted from what even our grandparents ate. Our vegetables are genetically modified, our beef and chickens are raised with carcinogenic additives and hormones and kept depressed and unhealthy in factory farms – it’s a sad state. They have even reported finding traces of jet fuel in human breast milk. We are sponges and soak up everything around us, and we owe it to ourselves and those in our care to be as healthy and disease-free as possible.
Can you tell I’m a health nut? : ) Anyways, look into raw diets, look into grain-free dry foods, and perhaps even find a holistic veterinarian with training in nutrition.
I wish you the best of luck, and Happy Thanksgiving!!
I need my lil chihuahua to eat also, he needs a bit of fat for the winter days but he too is pretty skinny..he doesn’t eat alot and I have a hard time getting him food he likes. The worst part is that he will not let me put a sweater on him for when I take him for a walk.
cook rice and put in his food
You leave him outside in the winter? I have 8 dogs and all are inside. I would not live outside in the Spring or Winter so I give the same consideration to the dogs. If outside, make sure that the wind can not blow into the dog house. Have a heating light in the roof of the dog house. A hole can be drilled to place a heating light or 60 what light bulb in. Thread the end of the cord back out the hole. Take a silicon caulking and seal up the hole after wards.. In the Spring remove the silicon, remove the light, and place more silicon caulking back over the hole. Do not worry about his weight. A dog shed and gets a winter coat to keep him warm. But he needs a dog house where there is some king of flab’s over the front to keep out the wind. Also have some hay or some sort of bedding inside for him to lay on.