Anyone feed pork to your dog?

[Clark]

I do.
Mixed 80/20 with kibble.

Half the web says freezing 20 days at 5* renders trichinosis inert, half says it doesn’t kill all.

I mix meat and kibble with a cup of boiling water.
My hound looks great.

[BlackHogDown]

Benadryl twice a day for this! Morning and night in a bit of peanut butter. My bird dog has itchy skin issues and its just allergies from the grasses. Normal over the counter pink generic bottle. My wife is a vet and she cleared up his mess of skin issues with that and low level steroid that you can get from your vet.

She's already taking the Benadryl and it's not working anymore. She's currently on some meds that help but she drinks a ton of water and is peeing everywhere. She hasn't "pottied" in the house since she was being house-broken over a year ago. I'd rather find what she's allergic to and cut it from her diet rather than committing to medication or hypoallergenic food ($$) for the rest of her life. Especially considering the fact that I'm going back to school in the fall.

My last lab had horrible allergies. Fluid in the "ears and rear" that needed regular draining. Switched food and she was a whole new dog. Seeing similar symptoms with Sam but we're having trouble finding a cost-effective remedy. Next step is a food with hydrolyzed protein to pin-point the allergen.

[Johnny Dangerr]

Sorry to piggyback but this has got me thinking of trying the raw diet. I cannot figure out what my pup is allergic to. For the last year, we've been swapping food (protein source) every 6-8 weeks. Vegetarian, grain-free, etc but she still scratches to the point of hurting herself.

Colored mulch will do that.........

[BlackHogDown]

Colored mulch will do that.........

No mulch she's getting to. She's kenneled during the day and 100% supervised when outside as I live in an apt complex and she is leashed.


Sorry, OP. I'm done.


In to hear some more info on the pork. I could potentially have free dog food at my disposal.

[Johnny Dangerr]

I have fed raw for 11-12 years. I have feed deer , Aoudad , duck , and a bunch of other exotics. I won’t feed wild hogs. Chicken is my base . .57 cents a pound. 10lbs bags from Walmart. You will love switching to chicken.

Mike be careful with chicken. I ran it through ours for years and all 3 got violently allergic to cooked and raw chicken. Karen and I eat very little chicken.....

[Double-O-Dave]

We feed our 2 Schnauzers wild game scraps all the time. We usually boil the scraps and save the resulting broth. We feed them about 2oz. cooked scraps to their 6 oz. of dry kibble and put some warmed broth on top of it. We feed this to them about every other day and they are very fond of it.

Regards,

Dave

[Mudslinger]

I have thought about doing this, but after my male Rottie developed a food allergy to beef and possibly chicken, i had to switch him over to a Salmon Sweet Potato dry from Victor. No more severe ear infections and muzzled trips to the vet and having to put him under to treat the infections. At 138#'s he does not like someone messing with his ear especially when it hurts as bad as it usually did. I am afraid pork might do the same as beef is the reason I have not tried it.

[Drycreek3189]

If you think as much of your dogs as I do mine, get a blood panel ran on them. It will tell you what they are allergic to so you can avoid it.

If your dog is drinking too much water, it could very well be diabetic. If its peeing too much, its kidneys may already be compromised. I have to give mine insulin twice a day.

[critter69]

We feed my dog all kinds of meat, including pork. Any thing we eat. Never have I fed them raw meat, but cooked yes.

[k-k]

Do you grind the chicken bones and all?
I did for awhile, then kids got all the attention.

[bpa556]

Yes

Our dogs are fed a raw diet of wild pork, axis and chicken (including organ meats). Chickens are ground with bones to provide calcium and other essential minerals. Various raw vegetables and/or fruit are ground in to make the diet more balanced (contents of gut and intestines are often the first thing consumed by predators).

We feed 1% of the dog’s body weight, twice per day. Dogs love it and we never have to pick up their stool. It is much smaller than kibble stool and doesn’t smell as bad. It dries and crumbles away within a day or two.

Their teeth stay cleaner and they don’t have the horrendous breath that kibble induces.

Trichinosis is a non-issue. It is a perfectly natural infection and is very rarely symptomatic in healthy dogs (or pigs, bears, felines, horses, etc.). Unless you plan on eating your infected dog without cooking it, the infection is not transmissible to humans. You can only get it by eating undercooked meat containing the worms.


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[stingerslinger]

Feral pigs are common carriers of the Pseudorabies virus. Two hog doggers in my area lost 10 dogs to the virus a few years back. The dogs had made contact with an infected pig and consumed some of the scraps after processing. Probably a rare occasion, but I probably won't take that chance.

[Jen-Man]

Have fed raw meat of all kinds to my dogs my entire life with no problems. Ran hog dogs for 20+ years , they lived on it.


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[4-fletch]

I feed mine deer scraps but not pork.
The coyotes won't eat the ones I dump.

[cva34]

Ours eats some of whatever we eat..with dry Dog food with splash of water..

I always try to make a Gut /scrap pile within sight of my blind..See all kinda Carnivores when they stop to have snack...