{"id":918,"date":"2009-03-10T06:15:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2009-03-10T06:15:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T12:15:18","slug":"happy-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Happy Dogs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After hours of research and reading, I decided that I&#8217;d switch my dogs from commercial kibble to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawfed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">prey-model raw diet<\/a>. Last night, I went to the store to get a couple of week&#8217;s worth of chicken- the meat of choice for starting dogs on raw food. They were very curious as to what I was doing when I was cutting it up\/packing it into ziptop bags last night. Since I eat a vegetarian diet, It&#8217;s been a long time since they&#8217;ve actually smelled raw meat, and it definately got their attention more than tofu and lettuce&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The prep is something I&#8217;ll get used to. It took a little while, and I was careful to sanitize my countertops afterward (while dogs can easily digest the bacteria in fresh, raw meat, it&#8217;s not so kind to us humans). I portioned everything by weight using a kitchen scale- Turbo gets ~12-14oz and Indy somewhere in the neighborhood of 4oz. Then, I put most of it in the bottom drawer of the freezer, leaving a couple of bags in a tray in the bottom of the fridge door to stay unfrozen for breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I was curious to see how the dogs would react- apparently, some dogs have no idea what to do with a chunk of raw, bony meat. However, these two did not dissapoint- they ran in and started muching away like a couple of wolves! Turbo, who normally inhales kibble, crunched her way slowly through a chicken thigh and a wing while Indy attempted to take his single wing out of the laundry room (probably to the carpet). When I didn&#8217;t let him, he went back to the spot near his bowl, dropped it on the floor, and started to crunch away. They seemed to thoroughly enjoy it. Here&#8217;s Turbo polishing off her chicken wing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dsc_8075.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-919\" title=\"dsc_8075\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dsc_8075-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"dsc_8075\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dsc_8075-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dsc_8075.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hours of research and reading, I decided that I&#8217;d switch my dogs from commercial kibble to a prey-model raw diet. Last night, I went to the store to get a couple of week&#8217;s worth of chicken- the meat of choice for starting dogs on raw food. They were very curious as to what I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-eO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}