I gave Casey an egg and...

Min (our rescue Maremma) gets an eggy every day.  Here's what I do.  I get about an inch of water boiling then crack the egg in.  Wait till the water boils again then remove it from the heat.  The white will "set" but the yolk will not completely cook through.  Cool and serve!  The water is yummy too, slurp, slurp. 

Biotin is the only thing in raw egg, that is not in cooked egg, and it's all in the yolk. 

Setting the white does two things.  It neutralizes the avidin, which if left alone will bind up all the biotin in the raw yolk and render it unavailable.  And it also lessens the chance of salmonella exposure.  Salmonella is the highest on the egg shell, then there's some in the white, and finally the yolk has very little, if the egg is not too old or from too icky a place.  True free range, humanely raised eggs are the lowest in salmonella.

Hope this helps! 

hmmm... I think I will try that next time. The grosser the better it seems. haha.

I didn't give him the shell - I'll have to work up to that one, IF I ever get that far!!  The eggs were pretty fresh, nothing lasts in the fridge too long over here.

Gibson will be getting a raw egg every day soon...right now he is getting about 2 a week.  Bubblegum got a raw egg everyday in the years that I had her....and Ollie has been getting one every day for almost all of his 7 1/2 years.  Here is why.     Several years ago...I was purchasing something from an all natural pet store.... the fellow there named Tony told me there is three things that I can give my dog  everyday to keep him real healthy.    1. Fish Oil   2.  Vit. C   3.  A raw egg.        Gee,,,he could have tried to sell me something and he told me this instead.   

I don't worry about the avidin thing because if there is a problem with the aviden binding the biotin from the whites of the eggs...( which its the whites that cause this problem) there is more than enough biotin in the yolks to make up for it.    

I do however,,,kind of worry about the salmonella.....( don't know why becasue raw people feed them all the time ) but the last couple of years..I have been buying pasturized eggs...our grocery store sells them. They are more expensive..but I like not worrying about my dogs having problems.           Like....I pay about $3 for them...and about 1.60 for ours...LOL!

I've never been able to do the raw egg thing.  It's just in my head.

I used to make egg white omelettes for myself and then I'd fry up the four egg yolks into a "pancake" for Luke.  He went NUTS for that.  I got a little sick of eggs and haven't made them for a while, much to Luke's disappointment.

hmm... another interesting idea!! I don't eat eggs, AT ALL. lol

I think he might have liked it better if I didn't add water (I don't think he's been drinking enough, that I've seen, so I've been adding water to his dinner). So next time I think I'll try Becca's method with slightly cooking it on the stove, and just pour that on his kibble, with nothing extra. Or maybe on the side....I'll think it over. haha

I've given them to Kenya, she LOVES raw egg and will eat it plain.  Sometimes after playing with Coke she gets hair stuck in her mouth (like from play-biting) and she starts coughing and gagging from the hair stuck in her throat so I give her a slippery raw egg and it helps.  I usually don't give her the shell, but once I caught Coke pulling the shell out of the sink and Kenya munched the entire thing so I know she will eat it.  In her poop there were little white bits so I think if I start giving her the shell I'll grind it into powder first.

 My dogs only eat the shell if the egg is frozen first.  Otherwise, after eggy meals, the bottom of their crates are covered in teeny egg shell bits.  They do love them frozen though, and its super funny to watch the first time they get one.  hehe.

so you just pop the egg in the freezer, and then give it to the dogs?? hmmmm.... could be interesting for puppies!! Though, I don't think Casey would have much to do with it frozen.... I will try that with the next foster pup!

Hhhmmm...I just sent off a reply and it didn't show up. 

Bubblegum loved eggs so much and was so used to hearing that egg break on her food that if I were cooking and using eggs... I would break it and she came running...thinking it was for her.   Gibby just did that Sunday when I was making breakfast for DH and me.   He loves them too. I didn't want to give him too many,,,so I gave him half a shell and he ate it. Crunched it right up.    Bubby used to eat shells...but I was afraid they would cut her mouth or insides so stopped giving the whole egg. But so many people do.

 Um...careful of just putting the egg in the freezer.  I freeze whole cartons cause my dogs get like 9 eggs for an egg meal, but they crack as they freeze, so you could end up with a mess in your freezer if you don't have something to catch any drips.

 Oh my!  I crack mine into baggies and freeze them.  I can't wait for my ducks to start laying so I can stop buying so many eggs!

 Frozen eggs - I never would have thought of it! I just give my dogs whole raw eggs. they love them and eat them up - shell and all. I don't worry about samenella (sp). They eat raw every now and then and have never had a problem.

 LOL, but the frozen eggs shoot out of their mouths and they have to chase them all over their crates!  Its really quite entertaining until they get a good gouge out of them.