Maze won't eat raw meat...

• 05-17-2008 7:46 PM

  oranges81 Joined on 10-13-2007 BC Canada Posts 1,189 Points 110

  Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact I've been wanting to add some raw in with her diet so I picked up some chicken legs to give her for dinner the other night. And she wouldn't touch them! I had to cut them up in small chunks (bone included) and hand feed them to her...She's still not sure about them.. BUT! I can get beef liver and hearts fairly cheap and I figured it can't hurt her to add it to her dinner a couple times a week. But she'll have nothing to do with it. Won't even sniff it...I've picked up her bowl and put it in the fridge until next feeding she wouldn't touch it even after 3 days.. She'll eat raw eggs (without the shell) so she's been getting that 3 times a week but I'm really wanting to add meat in to her diet. My long term goal is to stop feeding kibble all together. So any advice on how to get her more interested in the meat or is she just not a meat eating dog? Lol  Rest In Peace Crombie. You will be greatly missed - 07/25/2007 - 05/??/2008 -I may have ears and a tail but I'm still the person you used to know- He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

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• 05-17-2008 9:01 PM

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  jessies_mom Joined on 09-10-2007 Indiana Posts 4,089 Points 40	Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact    To get Mazy started, you can lightly sear the chicken leg just enough to enhance the smell while leaving most of the meat raw and not cooking the bone. If she eats that, then you can see if she'll eat it raw. Good luck; I hope this works for you. Life isn't about waiting through the storm; it's about learning to dance in the rain. Janice
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• 05-17-2008 9:10 PM

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  kle1986 Joined on 10-22-2007 LaRue County KY Posts 1,144 Points 685	Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact Maybe she wants it cooked?  Lol. I thought all dogs loved meat raw or not. I know Lillie absolutely looks forward to her raw chicken legs when I can get them cheap.   Kimberly
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• 05-17-2008 9:16 PM

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  oranges81 Joined on 10-13-2007 BC Canada Posts 1,189 Points 110

  Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact jessies_mom:    To get Mazy started, you can lightly sear the chicken leg just enough to enhance the smell while leaving most of the meat raw and not cooking the bone. If she eats that, then you can see if she'll eat it raw. Good luck; I hope this works for you.   Thanks for the tip! I'll try that next time I pick some up. Will that work with the liver as well?  Rest In Peace Crombie. You will be greatly missed - 07/25/2007 - 05/??/2008 -I may have ears and a tail but I'm still the person you used to know- He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

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• 05-17-2008 9:18 PM

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  oranges81 Joined on 10-13-2007 BC Canada Posts 1,189 Points 110

  Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact kle1986: Maybe she wants it cooked?  Lol. I thought all dogs loved meat raw or not. I know Lillie absolutely looks forward to her raw chicken legs when I can get them cheap.     Maze loves cooked meat but I won't feed her the bone. So I'm trying to get her in to something that satisfies the chewing and is good for her. When I gave her the chicken leg, she gave this look of "What are you trying to do??!! Kill me?!" She ate it in the end, begrudgingly, but I had to cut it up in small chunks and hand feed it to her.. Not fun. Lol  Rest In Peace Crombie. You will be greatly missed - 07/25/2007 - 05/??/2008 -I may have ears and a tail but I'm still the person you used to know- He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

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• 05-17-2008 9:54 PM

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  jessies_mom Joined on 09-10-2007 Indiana Posts 4,089 Points 40	Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact oranges81: Thanks for the tip! I'll try that next time I pick some up. Will that work with the liver as well?    You're welcome; it should work for the liver. Jessie will eat raw meat but for some reason she prefers RMB's with the meat cooked as I described.   Life isn't about waiting through the storm; it's about learning to dance in the rain. Janice
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• 05-17-2008 10:27 PM

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  oranges81 Joined on 10-13-2007 BC Canada Posts 1,189 Points 110

  Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact  Sweet. Again thanks! I'm going shopping next week so I'll have to try it. Rest In Peace Crombie. You will be greatly missed - 07/25/2007 - 05/??/2008 -I may have ears and a tail but I'm still the person you used to know- He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

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• 05-18-2008 1:43 AM

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  sandra_slayton Joined on 09-10-2007 Ingleside, Texas Posts 3,096 Points 0	Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact My girls, golden retrievers, will hardly touch raw meat  I have gotten them to eat a few chicken hearts, but they will not touch raw liver, ground beef, etc.  And they were even reluctant to eat the hearts.
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• 05-18-2008 2:23 AM

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  oranges81 Joined on 10-13-2007 BC Canada Posts 1,189 Points 110

  Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact Maze loves ground beef but she'll only eat it if thats what I'm eating that night.. She's weird. Lol.  Rest In Peace Crombie. You will be greatly missed - 07/25/2007 - 05/??/2008 -I may have ears and a tail but I'm still the person you used to know- He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

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• 05-18-2008 7:30 AM

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  CoCo Chanel Joined on 11-04-2006 South Jersey Posts 401 Points 85

  Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact glad coco is not the only one!  it took a while too...a few times of searing the outside lightly.... and now she'll only eat CERTAIN things raw.... ie. she LOVES NV medallions, any type of ground meat mixture I make her (supplemented with egg shells), raw chicken WINGS only, and raw rib bones.  She wont touch the rest... or she'll carry it around... crying until she can go bury it. With offals, she just flat out refuses to eat it raw... she'll actually PICK it out of her food bowl and leave it on the floor and eat the rest of her meal.... so I just boil it with some garlic for her.  And suddenly she decided she didnt want anything to do wtih raw eggs....so now I slightly poach it for her.... Oh wells... I guess it's better since I feed such a wide variety of her pre made raw medallions, my pre made mixes, RMBs, some cooked offals, kibbles, and canned, I'm sure she's getting all the essential she needs... lol

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• 05-18-2008 11:35 AM

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  FourIsCompany Joined on 07-30-2007 Posts 4,710 Points 1,135

  Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact oranges81: Maze loves ground beef I was going to suggest starting with ground beef. I made Satin Balls yesterday (Jaia lost weight recently with an illness and I have to get some weight back on him) and with all the stuff in there, it makes the raw beef VERY tasty! LSTM (Laughing Silently to Myself) Click Daily to Give Free Food and Care to Animals: http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3

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• 05-18-2008 2:12 PM

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  CoBuHe Joined on 08-03-2007 Magnolia, TX Posts 586 Points 35	Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact I made satin balls when Heidi was having some issues as well.  She loved them.  That and chicken broth poured over her kibble worked well.
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• 05-18-2008 5:37 PM

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  oranges81 Joined on 10-13-2007 BC Canada Posts 1,189 Points 110

  Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact  I haven't tried Satin Balls yet because she really doesn't need help putting the weight on. Actually she's getting chunky.. Hmmm.. Have to fix that. I've found Maze LOVES chicken broth but it has to hot, fresh from the pot.. Lol.So now when I have soup, I split the broth with her. Hope Jaia is feeling better!! Rest In Peace Crombie. You will be greatly missed - 07/25/2007 - 05/??/2008 -I may have ears and a tail but I'm still the person you used to know- He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

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• 05-19-2008 4:37 AM

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  corvus Joined on 08-02-2006 Australia (NSW) Posts 2,091 Points 80

  Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact Most of the dogs I know that have gone on homecooked/raw have lost weight. Except for Jill, who was too skinny anyway, and she put weight on. Go figure. Maybe you could try small like you would with a kitten or puppy. Like chicken necks, or wing tips. Do you guys get pet mince over there? Over here we can get chicken mince for dogs that has a lot of chunky bits of bone. It's a little crunchy and chewy, but tiny pieces.  Good luck with getting her off the kibble. It was easy for Penny. She'd had bones all her life and didn't actually like kibble, I discovered. She was over the moon when she started to entertain the idea that the ground meat and vegies was here to stay.  Melissa's family: Penny - corgi, Kit - wild hare, Bonnie - rabbit, Kivi Tarro - Finnish Lapphund "She's always talking about her hare."

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• 05-19-2008 1:21 PM

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  huskymom Joined on 09-10-2007 Thunder Bay ON Posts 4,942 Points 430	Re: Maze won't eat raw meat... Reply Contact  My dogs prefer their chicken frozen, you could try that.  They slurp the liver up like jello shots though so I'm clueless on that.  There really isn't anything my dogs won't eat, gluttons both of them. Candace
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