my starving pups



what? raw diet? what's that?

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Day 3 of the introduction to a Raw Diet ... not so popular with two disgruntled pups.

I had been thinking for some time about switching the dogs from kibble to a more natural diet which incororpoated raw meat and bones, organ meats and veggies... based on a vet's advice on what would be their ancestral diet.  In the case of my GSDs that meant an emphasis on red meat, chicken, organ meats and light on the fish (which newfoundlanders and labs would favour).

But I'm hungry!

The vet felt that a raw diet could only help Llyr's issues - which include a compromised spleen, rebervations from a spinal injury inflicted at a younger age,  3 cervical disks out of place in his neck (probably from lunging from his chained dog days).  His stifles (knees) and ankles are swollen and painful and he is, apparently, in a great deal of pain.  The new vet - who is also an animal communicator - indicated Llyr - in the way of sheperds, was stoic with pain and further, was "scared that as he weakened and as such, couldn't do his job and might be replaced".  I don't know if she can talk to animals but what I do know is tht is exactly the way my anxious, protective and loving boy would think.

poor starving dog (with lil red ball)

So, out with the kibble (full of grains, sugar, carbs that most dogs don't need) and in with the balanced reality of an ancestral raw diet...

Problem is, they're hating it.... and are on a hunger strike.

However, the World According to Sam reassures me that dogs do not starve themselves... and that eventually, they will cave.

here's hoping...

because apparently starving Princesses are FORCED to revert to STEALING cat food ... whereupon they cannily hie it in their BED.

Llyr put them here, REALLY!