LeahO
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So, Ben has been eating a diet of raw food followed by a fine cuisine of raw food leftovers (poop) but now he has moved on to a greater delicacy. Last night I saw him munching on something on his blanket outside. My pup had gathered about 6 slowly terrified slugs and was slurping them up, savoring the flavor that lingered in his white foaming jowls like waves of ecstasy on the beach.
There was about 3% of me that felt bad for interrupting what I discovered to be a nightly ceremony.
Ben attempted to gobble up the rest of his pile when he heard my gasp. One lone slug did his best to speed away under the light of the moon.
That's a lot of slug in the diet... am I not feeding him enough? Is there any harm in mass amounts of slugs? I wondered what he was chomping on when I didn't smell poop on his breath, (I try to get poop up asap now). I check his ribs, as discussed in Judy's book, but I get paranoid with all this scavenging. He's 7 months old and I feed him 1 pound morning and night of raw food, which has a lot of water weight (http://cms.nw-naturals.net/raw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=63).
Of course, the current theory is that the eager cub will eat raw food until he explodes because I used to feed him pounds at a time under the premise that he was a growing boy and he'd keep going until I was uncomfortable. Kibble he's not as into (& we went through the nightmare allergies yielding "zombie dog" and stealthy comments about just putting him down, so switching to kibble - even if it's the prescribed kangaroo version - is not an option.)
What do you think?
LeahO
There was about 3% of me that felt bad for interrupting what I discovered to be a nightly ceremony.
Ben attempted to gobble up the rest of his pile when he heard my gasp. One lone slug did his best to speed away under the light of the moon.
That's a lot of slug in the diet... am I not feeding him enough? Is there any harm in mass amounts of slugs? I wondered what he was chomping on when I didn't smell poop on his breath, (I try to get poop up asap now). I check his ribs, as discussed in Judy's book, but I get paranoid with all this scavenging. He's 7 months old and I feed him 1 pound morning and night of raw food, which has a lot of water weight (http://cms.nw-naturals.net/raw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=63).
Of course, the current theory is that the eager cub will eat raw food until he explodes because I used to feed him pounds at a time under the premise that he was a growing boy and he'd keep going until I was uncomfortable. Kibble he's not as into (& we went through the nightmare allergies yielding "zombie dog" and stealthy comments about just putting him down, so switching to kibble - even if it's the prescribed kangaroo version - is not an option.)
What do you think?
LeahO
