Your post is so right. Far too often people confuse what they would like to eat compared to what their pet should. Dogs and cats need a proper, balanced diet like they would eat in the wild, along with exercise. I get so discouraged when I see people feed their animals poor quality human food, or worse yet, chocolate cake and ice cream. Candy. In a few years not only is the animal unhealthy from the poor diet but they are in agony from the rotted teeth. I see it all the time.
I am fortunate to live in a place where raw, wild meat is only a gunshot away. This year Cora stood under my elk while it was being gutted, drinking blood and eating organs. Couldn’t have been a happier dog. Last night as I prepared deer meat for supper I tossed her the trimmings and it was like giving crack to a crackhead. Couldn’t have been happier.
Right now she has a caribou leg in the backyard that she treats like her most valued possession. She also has a buffalo leg bone half the size of a baseball bat that she gnaws away on.
Decades ago I lived in the south for a while. There was a local pet food place that made fresh food like what you describe. They had a massive grinder, like the size of a truck. They would get roadkill, old farm animals, and butcher scraps and run them through this grinder. I think they skinned the animals but otherwise fed them whole, bones and all, into the grinder. What came out was a pink paste that they packaged and sold. I don’t know if they still do that but it was very popular.
The best ever dog food that I had was beaver meat. I would shoot a beaver every few days and give it to my dog. The neighbours used to get extra beavers from me, as well. Beaver meat is super rich and
All of our kids get Darwin's on the raw and Fromm's on the dry. The Darwin's is species specific, full on bloody raw. On the cats its flesh only, dogs its flesh plus a little veg. Has to be kept in the freezer then we pull out the days grub to thaw. When it's almost thawed, we put it in the fridge till chow time. We've been using Darwin's for 10+ years. Found out about it after watching the documentary, "Pet Fooled", about the pet food industry. The two Vets in the show both feed it to their brood. They don't mention it by brand but you can easily see the packaging.
greasy so the dog had the most beautiful, glossy coat that you could imagine. Shinier than even a shampooed show dog. The problem was the dog smelled like beaver. Turns out that chickens also like beaver meat. We would toss a beaver carcass into the chicken pen and they would swarm it and peck it clean just like a school of piranhas. This came to a halt when we realized that the eggs tasted vaguely like beaver meat.
