Yes! grocery store or farm to plate store they are always the cheapest cut❤ even compared to buying a whole chicken

Toronto ,325$/mo for my GSD who eats 2 Ib day plus chewable . It is expensive but since he got the taste of it he refuses kibbles ☹️

Hi! We’re also in Vancouver, wondering where you are sourcing your meats? I want to branch off and introduce more proteins/organs but I’m having trouble finding anything beyond T&T and the occassional raw food store :/

Dang. I spend 125 on 3 of us humans every 2 weeks. I definitely don't spend that on dogs. I buy purina one for my dogs. I used to use science diet.

4.7lbs per day 😱🤯 I feel for you!! My adult presa gets 2.5lbs per day and I thought that was a lot 🥵

@@carinknopfer4434 same here, I wanted so much to feed my cat raw but even me myself eat mostly eggs or cheaper cuts lol

I’m sorry, but you should probably get going to a vet “on your radar” in case of emergencies. Unless you are highly educated in dog physiology, vets are necessary in so many circumstances. I’ve never exclusively relied on my vet for treatment, but with my own supplemental education and their professional diagnoses, it’s been essential to visit my vet when my dog was sick.

@Whimsical Wonders 100% agreed.

Vet verses diet is actually a fair argument (for the most part). I’d still have a vet and be on good terms with them, but your overall philosophy makes sense.

Easily one of the dumbest comments

@@robinfarrar3493 we only use a Holistic Vet. Honestly, my dogs are so much healthier with a holistic vet. Never using vets who are owned by Hills or Mars (a candy company). Over 50,000 vets in this country are owned by kibble companies.

Mariah feeds once daily for Matsu I have a 25lb Pomsky and she is also picky and doesn't really wanna eat unless I hand feed her since that's how I started to avoid resource guarding. I've been feeding her once daily now as well since she was only choosing to eat around dinner time (Which meant she only ate half of what she should have gotten) I learned that a lot of dogs prefer not to eat in the morning. If they don't eat their food when you put it down for them, seal it and put it back in the fridge for later. They'll learn that when you put food down, it's time to eat. Sometimes you need to be more strict where you take the food away until their next scheduled feeding or if you see them throwing up bile.

I feed Matsu a "breakfast soup" in the morning, which is a small portion of his meal with water or bone broth, then the rest of his food in the evening

I’ve heard feeding a husky is worse than feeding a picky toddle 😂

I only feed my boys once a day; first thing in the mornings after our walk/run

​@@Aukami93what is a Pomsky? I've never heard of that. Please tell me it's not a mix of a Pomeranian and a husky.

Steve’s Real Food, if you can find it comes out to like $5-6/lbs. it also has my favorite ingredient list, minimal veg, only a few supplements, mostly Meat, organs and bones.

Look into a raw Co-Op in your area. It saves me lots of $$$

Same here! Bought a blow dryer and everything. Makes everything so much easier and saves so much money.

I can partly groom my boy, but I have shaky hands and I’m not confident in shaping his coat. I mainly do his sanitary, and his paws. Doing this makes it where he only needs to go about every 2 months, which is far more affordable.

@@early_morning_sd_team Every little bit helps. Some people do have disabilities that prevent them from grooming their own dogs. However, most people I think are just fearful about doing it…just like they can be with raw feeding or learning anything new.

@@mamabear9389 I am a groomer and people are definitely scared but most dogs I groom are pretty aggressive and it would be dangerous for the average pet owner to attempt themselves.

@@tormor9019 I think it is best to start home grooming from little on. However, I would hate to hand over an aggressive dog to a groomer! Groomers should not have to deal with that.

Run canned food under water? Won't it turn to slosh?

@@Roomfullofstrangers im speaking more of stuff like sardines

This site has feeding chart cheat sheets, and I even purchased a formulator here for $19.00. You can also choose to purchase pre-made raw if DIY scares you. In this video, she balances the meal, and uses supplements to cover any nutrient shortfalls. You can also purchase base mixes to do that, if you are okay feeding some low glycemic fruits and vegetables. She appears to be following a modified Prey Model diet. I prefer a modified BARF model diet.

PS there's another asian store tucked back behind Peach Valley

lol!

I am currently on Farmers dog and spending $170 for 21 days worth of food for my 40lb dog. She is a senor so transitioning to raw is going to take time. but after watching this, im confident raw is cheaper than the human grade pre madefoods.

@@michellethomas6494 I think raw could be cheaper. I make my own but sometimes it helps to use some of the pre made grinds to start with and then you can add extras. My Pet Carnivore and Hare Today have reasonably priced whole prey grinds. What I don’t like about the fresh food diets I have looked at is that they are loaded with synthetic vitamins and minerals so the food cannot stand on its own. I really like making my own but the grinds could be helpful at first, especially the whole prey grinds because they contain parts of the whole animal.

Organic is better, but definitely more expensive. I intend to take advantage of sales and markdown meats. I also have a hunter in the family, and can get duck and deer for free when he hunts. Wild caught food is best to freeze for a while anyway to kill parasites. I usually get frozen meats from his kills when it has sat in the freezer too long and it’s time to throw out.

I make them myself

No way it’s that much. You should be closer to $10 a day & that’s if you’re incorporating fish & nicer cuts of beef

They can, but I usually just feed the yolk unless it's a small quail egg. I usually feed egg a few times a week

I'm sure if there even was a way to remove the brine, it wouldn't be worth the time. I highly doubt all that salt can be removed without also removing important nutrients from the chicken and blood.

Maybe soak the chicken in water or rinse it really well, might help with the salt.

Raw is very expensive. Good quality meat, grass fed is expensive. Chicken is cheap, but it is an inflammatory to dogs with Leaky Gut, allergies or yeast which is 80% of dogs. Kibble and canned has no nutritional value. What you see on a label is not in the bag. If you look on most bags, like Hills it is owned by Colgate-Palmolive company. Toothpaste employees make the kibble and teach vets how fabulous the garbage is. Or a person can buy another bag of kibble Purina who's maker is Nestlé! So candy companies make your dog's food. Nothing compares to raw or gently cooked if the dog cannot handle raw which is rare. 🥰

@@jannellmeagher638 Blessings and thank you much for info, very good and informative God Bless

I try to use animal sources when I can, but I have used them as a zinc source in rotation before!

I think you’ll have a lot of success with local farms. In my area we even have some that offer online ordering and free delivery.

Gizzard are very good, however I would never feed my dog pork! Please do your research on it , it's horrible for your fur baby

@@patriciaandjudgey1442 Thank you for giving me a heads up. I live in Canada so the risk of feeding pork is a bit lower. But I bought my pork heart from a local Asia market. It was just in a zip lock, so just to be extra save I will probably just cook it. I emailed a couple of farms, so hopefully I can get some good stuff. I am most likely dumb, but I also figured out that pacific canned oyster and eastern canned oysters have different nutrients. Go for the eastern ones for zinc since it has 91mg, pacific only has 16.1mg. If you are using the paws of prey formulator. Eastern oysters are the canned oyster in the system

awww thank you ❤

@@jjradV from a quick google that seems to be a brand of 100% vegan dog & cat foods? is that right?

@@jjradV that's not biologically appropriate and if you're watching this channel you should know that. watch literally any other video on this channel to learn more!

@@jjradV ok 🤭🤭🤭

Hehe :p And yes this can be true with poorly raised/fed chickens, but if you can find chicken fed a species appropriate diet and raised in a proper environment, they tend to have a better 6:3 ratio! But if your dog has a true chicken allergy, you will need to eliminate it from the diet.

I can see how thats a bit confusing! So what I mean by "muscle meat" in my earlier videos includes both muscular tissue and muscular organs, so 83% muscular tissue WITH muscular organs. What I mean by 55% muscle meat now is 55-58% pure muscular tissue, and I reserve the remaining 20-30% to be muscular organs. I think it's important to separate them. The percentages will always vary though, but thats a general recommended range.

@@PawsofPrey ah, that makes much more sense. Thanks!

@@PawsofPrey hello, thank you for this excellent video. Wondering if gizzards are considered the same as muscle meat in your calculations? Thanks in advance.

Yes, most people do

you may need a higher bone content :) not all pets need the exact same 10% bone that the guidelines suggest

@@Grey-wp5xu thanks that’s what I was thinking. I don’t think he’ll complain he loves chicken wings and paws

It's possible your pup still has Giardia. I had to do a 2nd round of antibiotics to get rid of it. And if your dogs poops are still dark and runny, I would say you'd need a bit more calcium/bone content. You can also add slippery elm powder to their meal to help with diarrhea

@@Aukami93 thanks. They did another culture yesterday. Just waiting for the results.

Just an update. My pup is now negative for Giardia. Also by adding more bone he has a normal poop. Other than the grass he like to pull up and eat. Thanks for all of the advice. One more question. Any suggestions on how much kelp, zinc picolinate, e-oil, and slippery elm although this may be as needed or should I give in a regular basis?

Lots of raw feeders use meat grinders. Some people are afraid to feed bone that isn’t ground up, and some owners have dogs with no teeth and need it ground up.

Prey Model Raw?

$38 fir 10lbs 8s ridiculous

Treat raw food just like you would for yourself, clean your prep area before and after. Wash your hands anytime you need to touch anything that isn’t raw meat. Prep your meals in ziplock bags or plastic storage containers. Seal them and freeze them. Pull out two to 2 bags or however much you plan to feed for two days. Let it sit in the fridge and defrost. Once it’s defrosted feed them and then wash their bowls with hot soapy water or dishwasher. You have to remember that dogs contain enzymes in their stomachs to process raw meat. The same DNA from wolves are from where dogs came from. Look at their teeth and how their jaws work they are meant to kill and eat. Just we humanized dogs and cats to become house pets

I beg to differ when it comes to Purina One at least. It’s approved by the World Small Animal Veterinary Association & it’s helped get rid of my dogs allergies actually. I’ve tried every other kibble under the sun and most foods either flared up her allergies or upset her stomach. She’s a huge fan and hasn’t been itchy since then so I’m pretty happy. I personally don’t trust myself enough to make my pets food, I’d be terrified of finding out I’ve been forgetting something vital.

@@skellie4580 I’m glad it worked for you, even though there is so much information to prove kibble is terrible for our pets and raw diet is the most appropriate diet.. I’ve worked and been around 100s of dogs and I can tell you 99% are suffering on kibble. You should try it one day, its not as hard as you think. You just have to have faith in yourself that you can do it. I highly suggest the book The Forever Dog. It will help you get started.

The Forever Dog is great!

My dog has been on raw for about 4 months before I switched him back to kibble. Even with the Orijen dog food that I buy him, I am still paying less for his food. You say raw is cheaper but the numbers you're stating and the numbers I'm seeing on this video are not convincing me of that. I originally switched to raw because I had suspected that my dog's skin problems were caused by the kibbles I was feeding him. After 4 months on a completely raw diet, there wasn't even the slightest sign of improvement. In fact, just supplementing my dog's kibble with salmon oil has been the most beneficial for his skin and coat. I would love to have stayed on the raw diet, but I can tell you it is not for everyone and a bit patronizing to judge other dog owners for feeding kibble to their dogs. My dog is 12 years old and has lived with some health issues mainly due to genetics and not the food I've been feeding him. During the 4 months he was on raw, his health was mostly the same as always besides maybe his teeth looking cleaner. I get his teeth regularly cleaned and he has not had any dental issues yet even on kibble. One thing the raw diet helped my dog with was that I found out he could not digest any red meats (beef, pork, etc). When they were in kibbles, it didn't cause that much of a reaction, but when feeding raw beef, he just kept throwing it up. So now I know to stay clear of any foods that contain red meats and thankfully, orijen has options for that. Here are the issues I faced when I fed my dog a raw diet. I paid for a raw meal delivery service because I was unsure about how much of anything I had to feed my dog and this saved me a lot of time. However, in exchange for the time and headaches I was saving, this was a very expensive service. There was one instance where I had run out of the raw meals and wasn't getting the next shipment for another week, so I had to go out and prepare the raw meals on my own. This was a good way of seeing whether I could cancel the service and source the meats myself. I had to drive to multiple grocery stores (thank God I have multiple Asian grocery stores around me) in order to get all of the different types of meats and organs I needed. Then I had to weigh out and portion all of these to prep for the week. The one thing nobody ever seems to mention when they say how inexpensive switching to raw is, is the time you lose doing all of the shopping and preparing. Not very many people have the the time to do all of the research and shopping in order to maintain this diet for our pets. Finally, this may not be an issue for smaller dogs, but my dog is 75 lbs and the amount of fridge/freezer space his food took during the time on raw was not inconsequential. If we didn't have an extra freezer, there was no way we would've been able to fit even a week's worth of his food with ours in one fridge. Overall, I think it's great if you can afford to feed your dogs a raw diet, but it's certainly not for everyone and not necessarily going to solve every dog's health issues.

@@iluvcamping I’m sorry but I’m not reading all that lol you should have just written that as a comment instead of a response to mine.

They really do! They have a very fast metabolism.

Some people feed those things, while others only feed it when treating diarrhea. Starchy vegetables are controversial, so you will hear lots of conflicting info about it. I don’t feed it to my dog, but wouldn’t hesitate if I needed it make up a nutrient shortfall.

that cool but you missed the point from this channel, dogs are not processing rice, especially brown.

@@daniification nope, I didn’t miss anything. It was all quite clear.

That's not true. My Labs eat about 700g a day for $2 a day for each.

Variety is key. I don’t want to feed any protein source every day. It can give them excess nutrients and nutrient deficiencies simultaneously. I am feeding a pre-made raw until I can source and stick up enough protein sources to make 3-4 unique meals. I have a chest freezer I can use for my protein hauls.

Did you notice what the ferret is eating at 0:20?

You have literally no idea what you're talking about