Tripe

My dogs love this stuff as well. I just started giving it recently. It's pretty stinky to me, but to them it smells wonderful.

 I will call my dog food guy! How exciting! Emma eats Bravo, as her main source of nutrition, LOL. She still gets extras, like canned sardines, table scraps, veggies, and treats, but Bravo is really working for her. I couldn't find tripe on their website, so I thought they didn't sell it. I'll have them order me some. She'll eat that a couple of days a week. YUM!

I believe the only stupid question is one not asked so here goes, IF THIS STUFF IS SO STINKY HOW CAN YOU TELL IF ITS BAD OR POSSIBLY GONE OFF ? It sounds like a great accompliment but......

 Tripe smells, to me, like cow manure.  There's just no other way I can describe it.  I have smelled tripe from a sheep that was alive mere minutes previously, and it's very much the same.  When the sheep belch, it's a similar smell, but not as, um, ripe.  It's a bit like a cross between methane, if you've ever smelled that, and the stuff they put in gas to make it smell bad so you know there's a leak - and also with a whiff of poo thrown in.

Bad tripe would include spoiled tissue, and that would have a much different smell - like "bad meat."  Very spoiled tripe would have a "dead stuff" smell.  I've smelled that in a can of tripe that wasn't properly sealed (Green Cow) - oh, my, that experience will haunt me to my dying day.

I had my first tripe experience Saturday night. Two of the dogs that are boarding at work have it. GAG. GAG GAG GAG.

I got two, 2 lb tubs of Bravo tripe. They're perfect. Thanks, Amanda! Emma thanks you with tripe-scented kisses. Yum. 

Maybe I spent too much time in horse stalls as a teen.  Or maybe it's the daily salmon and jack mackerel that the boys eat, I don't find the smell that bad.  The first can I opened out on the porch to stuff Kongs with, but after that, I just did it in the kitchen.  The kitties came a'runnin' but, really it didn't bother me much.  I stuff Kongs and petrified bones with it and freeze them.