Ruger8 0 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 After reading the threads on this sitei have changed my attitude to feeding dried food for both my dogs and ferrets and have provided meat and bone as staple. On a recent visit to the butchers he gave me some lamb scraps, and said i have nothing else except pork and thats no good, i told him to chuck it in and that the dogs would eat it (i would not feed it to the ferrets as i was always told not to). He then said, "i wouldnt if i was you" , and two old women in the shop began joining in as well, saying it would make the dogs sick I beat a retreat without the pork ! Should i have stayed a entered possibly heated and violent debate with the two old ladies ........ or were they right ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LDR 29 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I've been given pork scraps and mine were fine mate!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 They were probably voicing their own, quite genuine and heart felt, concerns based around a 'folk conciousness' idea of worms. Raw pork is notorious for passing on worms and, yes, in days gone by it could well have ended up with some things a tad more serious! However, with the controls in place at modern day abbatiors ~ or Tony's Centralised Hub, as it is now ~ there's precious little chance of a 'Tricky Pig' getting into the food chain and thus your Dogs. Having said that, you did well to beat a retreat. It's one thing for someone to come on here and type out, " Ditch Shitter's a c***. He doesn't know what he's talking about. " Ditch Shitter doesn't care about that. But to good as stand there and say the same to the man who's helping feed ye Dogs? Ye don't want to insult and upset him My advice would be, next time ye go in there, point out that he was of course perfectly correct and that the parasitic possibilities of uncooked pork have now been pointed out to you. Thank him for his sage advice. Perhaps mention your grattitude to his customers too. Butter him up! He'll feel righteous and may well then feel inclined towards largesse with the lamb! It's all about handling people. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parkstone 24 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 old wives tales live on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
weekye 0 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 (edited) They were probably voicing their own, quite genuine and heart felt, concerns based around a 'folk conciousness' idea of worms. Raw pork is notorious for passing on worms and, yes, in days gone by it could well have ended up with some things a tad more serious! However, with the controls in place at modern day abbatiors ~ or Tony's Centralised Hub, as it is now ~ there's precious little chance of a 'Tricky Pig' getting into the food chain and thus your Dogs. Having said that, you did well to beat a retreat. It's one thing for someone to come on here and type out, " Ditch Shitter's a c***. He doesn't know what he's talking about. " Ditch Shitter doesn't care about that. But to good as stand there and say the same to the man who's helping feed ye Dogs? Ye don't want to insult and upset him My advice would be, next time ye go in there, point out that he was of course perfectly correct and that the parasitic possibilities of uncooked pork have now been pointed out to you. Thank him for his sage advice. Perhaps mention your grattitude to his customers too. Butter him up! He'll feel righteous and may well then feel inclined towards largesse with the lamb! It's all about handling people top answer, couldn't agree more. Edited February 25, 2007 by weekye Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brock 11 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 leave well alone mate,a freind of mine just had a 6 month old pup die and 4 other dogs seriously ill from food poisoning from raw pork,the vet told him never to feed raw pork as its deadly Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tote 854 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 Must admit i've never been a fan of feeding pork to my dogs always found it made them scour. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MATTI 34 Posted February 25, 2007 Report Share Posted February 25, 2007 I wonder if any of the lad's that hunt boar feed some of the catch to their dogs?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stabs 3 Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 The lads I hunted with fed the legs to the dogs after skinning them....too much hair. This is Old Major eating a bit of wild boar we killed the previous day Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MATTI 34 Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Thought as much "stabs", and i he look's healthy enough, also there is 2 topics about feeding trotter's on here i wonder if these folk have any problem's????? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stabs 3 Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 I wouldn't have thought so Matti...that bit of boar Old Major is eating there had a trotter on it when he started eating it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest WILF Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 1. Vets by and large know feck all about feeding dogs........FACT 2. I will feed whole pigs heads every now and again........they love em and have no bad affects whatsoever. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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wren 8 Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Years ago we used to get pork scraps and trotters for nothing off a local butcher, the dogs did well on it with no ill effect. Wish we could still get it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kiwi 4 Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 i never feed pork,wild or tame to my dogs it goes right through them and they get bugga all out of it, it's ok if ya just low on tucker but as an ex butcher i've seen the burns ya get from cutting up tame pork and you can keep the shit. feeding pig heads to ya dogs can be the worse part, all the glands and the risk of ya dog breaking a canie on the pig teeth is something to consider. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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