I've been investigating RAW for a few months now as Rosie is getting increasingly disinterested in food and quite a bit of encouragement is necessary to get her to eat. My assumption is that she's bored with what she sees and smells in her bowl?
The UK suppliers of RAW won't ship to Guernsey due to the logistical problems of keeping small items frozen for the journey. I discovered this week that a couple in Guernsey import Nutriment a tonne at a time (4000 packs!) which is shipped with the frozen food chain for shops in Guernsey. They then sell them on to people from outbuildings on their property. They open on 4 days a week for a couple of hours at a time and stock the complete range of Nutriment products.
I went last night and picked up a chicken variety suitable for a puppy and a turkey variety suitable for an adult and left them out to thaw overnight. The owner was very informative and let me have these as free samples. Nutriment's website said that I had 2 choices about the transfer to RAW. One was to introduce slowly and the other is to skip a meal and then just feed RAW. The latter approach is easier for a younger dog to manage and I decided to try this with both girls.
This morning I opened the tubs to discover the food looked like mince with obvious bits of bone. It was very different to how I thought it would look as I'd assumed the meat would be in bigger pieces. The consistency is quite firm too, much like mince beef.
Rosie is 9.5 kg and as she needs 2-3% of her body weight per day I gave her a quarter of the pack (125g). Although Edie is lighter at 8.5kg, she needs 4-5% as she's still growing so I also gave her a quarter of the pack. I gave it a bit of a mix up and popped the bowls down to see what the reactions would be.
Edie, as expected, just loved it. She will hoover up anything so this was no surprise. Rosie was my bigger concern. She had a sniff then devoured it
