RAW VEG OR COOKED

[doglad1 32]

As it says what is best to put with raw mince.

[doglad1 32]

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[tsteve9999 456]

Mine get both, cooked leftovers from the Sunday roast or any other dinner, and the odd raw carrot or a few cabbage leaves chopped up, whatever I can nick while the wifes back is turned. I would guess raw is best for them but they seem to eat whatever is put in front of them and don't look bad on it.

 

Tom

[the_stig 6,614]

i boil mine and i add pasta and rice - twice a week ...

[doglad1 32]

ye i boil mine and use the water aswell but i got told raw is better,then i hear they cant digest raw

[Guest clash]

I use a juicer to finely chop all that raw veg up. Pick a brand new one up for less than £20.

Mix the veg up with your raw meet & put some juice on top. Soft boiled egg,wee boiled rice,multivitamin,salmon oil & yoghurt. Im pretty new to this,but so far so good & like everything.............trial & error.

[Guest clash]

..............forgot to add,i got a recommendation to use raw sheep fat too

[Kay 3,709]

If there not used to the veg in there diet i would go easy on it to start with, i found it really upset my males tummy when i swapped over to feeding raw & the vegetables

[comanche 2,941]

Few carnivores can digest uncooked vegetable food. Just goes straight through them . How many of us has spotted stuff like undigested grass,bits of apple or even chicken corn in their dog's poo?

In the wild carnivores are very greedy for the contents of the guts and stomach of their prey because the green-food has already been broken down and partially digested for them .

They might enjoy chewing on a crunchy raw carrot but to get the best nutrition the greens need to be lightly cooked .

Edited January 17, 2010 by comanche

[paddybarr 77]

waste of time dogs have an unsacculated colon and can not digest vegetable matter, if you want to feed it the best way is to cadge trimmings from your local greengrocer boil them in a pan of water and use the cooking water when cooled use as your dogs drinking water or add to food btbh dogs have no requirement for any "greenmatter"

[joey1979 0]

Spot on commanche, dogs do require partly digested veg matter found in the belly of a herbivore thats why dogs eat grass and vomit it up, cant digest it.

[craigyboy 1,274]

Spot on commanche, dogs do require partly digested veg matter found in the belly of a herbivore thats why dogs eat grass and vomit it up, cant digest it.

 

not true some dogs who are careful grazers and actually chew the grass can digest it and the same goes for veg if its blitzed up or grated then it will get digested

[joey1979 0]

Spot on commanche, dogs do require partly digested veg matter found in the belly of a herbivore thats why dogs eat grass and vomit it up, cant digest it.

 

not true some dogs who are careful grazers and actually chew the grass can digest it and the same goes for veg if its blitzed up or grated then it will get digested

Some dogs why not all? Wolves had no blitzers in the wild,but yeah cooking and blitzing is the nearest to the real veg in the unwashed honey comb of tripe, still not sure of blitzed raw thou..

[craigyboy 1,274]

Spot on commanche, dogs do require partly digested veg matter found in the belly of a herbivore thats why dogs eat grass and vomit it up, cant digest it.

 

not true some dogs who are careful grazers and actually chew the grass can digest it and the same goes for veg if its blitzed up or grated then it will get digested

Some dogs why not all? Wolves had no blitzers in the wild,but yeah cooking and blitzing is the nearest to the real veg in the unwashed honey comb of tripe, still not sure of blitzed raw thou..

because all dogs are different some chew it proper and some wolf it down and as for not being sure about raw,anybody with any sense knows that vegatables lose some nutrient value when cooked

[joey1979 0]

Spot on commanche, dogs do require partly digested veg matter found in the belly of a herbivore thats why dogs eat grass and vomit it up, cant digest it.

 

not true some dogs who are careful grazers and actually chew the grass can digest it and the same goes for veg if its blitzed up or grated then it will get digested

Some dogs why not all? Wolves had no blitzers in the wild,but yeah cooking and blitzing is the nearest to the real veg in the unwashed honey comb of tripe, still not sure of blitzed raw thou..

because all dogs are different some chew it proper and some wolf it down and as for not being sure about raw,anybody with any sense knows that vegatables lose some nutrient value when cooked

Of course cooked veg loses nutrient,as i said the nearest to digested veg found in the belly of a herbivore, but anyone that has done there homework would know that veg must go threw three digestive stages in the belly of the herbivore for the dog to completely digest it,so my common sense would tell me raw is just the first stage. Im far from an expert im just going by the experts and to be honest im ignortant to what knowledge they have.