Does your Tripawd eat a RAW food diet? If so, how do you handle it when your pup stays overnight at the vet’s office, boarding kennel or on the road?
Alexander’s Mom, xanderdane, posted in the forums that she was nervous about how Alexander would get fed while he stayed overnight for amputation surgery.
Maggie’s Mom, Tracy said:
My dog, too, is raw fed…I didn’t bother though with bringing her food…well, I did but never used it. They fed Maggie canned food. When she would eat it. She basically only ate if I was there… I was fine with them feeding her canned food…as I just wanted her to eat something!
All you RAW feeders out there, how do you handle this situation?
Our suggestion is, as far ahead of surgery as pawsible, pick up some yummy prepackaged RAW foods like Stella & Chewy’s Freeze-Dried and Frozen Raw Dinners. See how your pup adapts to them. If her belly agrees with it, your vet tech will thank you for not asking him to feed a bloody piece of meat to your new Tripawd!
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I haven’t tried Stella & Chewy’s yet! When I’m on the road with my dogs, what I do is mix up their food ahead and prebag individual feedings for each dog and freeze it. It stays good and frozen for a day or so, depending on how hot is is. I use Honest Kitchen premixes and add raw Primal meat grinds to it.
Works well for us – even camping at competitions. I often have to thaw the bags out under some hot water!
But if I were going to stay away longer, I’d just use the Honest Kitchen premixes without adding raw meat to them as they do have dehydrated meat, like Stella & Chewy’s does.
Tracy, Maggie’s Mom
Maggie:
A lot of people mistakenly think that dehydrated meat is the same as freeze dried raw–but it is not. Freeze drying is the only way to have raw meat remain raw and dry. Dehydration uses heat and cooks the moisture out of the meat. I think dehydrated meat is better than conventional kibble but it certainly is not raw! Stella&Chewy’s is freeze dried NOT dehydrated!
Thanks for the clarification Charlotte!