Hi there, just to give you teh full picture, we have a 15week old leonberger bitch and she is usually really into her food - she's been having four meals a day - morning has been tripe, heart, liver and muscle meat and lunch has been chicken wings, afternoon she's had an egg in some goats milk (as recommended by breeder as what she feeds hers) and the same again as breakfast for dinner.  I know that at some point puppies only want 3 meals a day, and just recently she's not really been interested in her breakfast. we only just fed it at 12 this morning. Is this becuase shes' now probably wanting only 3meals aday or could there be something wrong? She seems well in herself and usually guzzles her chicken wings for lunch and usually asks for more and dinner is never a problem.

ANy advice would be great

Thanks!

I dunno much to help you im afraid, but i dont know any one who feeds their dog all have what you said every day. Maybe for treats etc, it could be the problem but then again i could be completly wrong and be told that what you are feeding your dog is perfectly fine :) sorry i cant help but im sure someone will be along soon to help you.

Try her over 3 meals a day... just increase the 3 and drop the 4th. The food content looks OK to me - but I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong...all I would say is watch how much liver she gets.

The amount of heart and liver she gets is a very small proportion of what she eats. In bulk it is tripe, then meat, then the heart and liver.  She hasnt done a poo today (as far as we know) and her nose is a little hot. we are concerned that maybe she's blocked up for some reason.
what are good ways of making the dog poo? what is their equivalent to Turbo Lax!?

This is an awful lot of variety in one day!  The digestive system will be finding all this very hard going indeed.  Why do you feel the need to put in so many different things in one day? The principle of raw feeding is BALANCE OVER TIME;

By all means feed tripe, heart and liver but NOT all at the same meal!  One day tripe, another day, liver, another day kidneys, another day heart etc.  Don't forget heart IS a muscle meat NOT offal!  She does not need the goats milk;

Personally I would either cut down on the size of the meals or remove one meal; but please do not give so much variety in one day; look for a 10 day cycle.

Laxative foods are liver.

HTH

Thank you tohme.

The reason we feed her what we are feeding her is because a leonberger breeder we talked to said this is what she feeds her puppies.  I did read in our barf book however what you said, which is feeding variety over time.  What would you recommend she gets in a day? Its easy to find lots of info on barf for adult dogs, but not so much for the puppies.  She is looking incredibly well although we thought that maybe she might be constipated today as we havnt 'seen' her poo today - but she may have and might have eaten it (she has been known to do this).

Get the IB book on Grow your pup with bones; this is designed for bitches in whelp and puppies etc.  All you need to do is basically feed what you would feed an adult; puppies have no "special" requirement except that they need more :D

"True" constipation is extremely rare; all mammals have their own individual frequencies etc.

I'm not an expert in raw feeding, but my understanding of 'over time' is that over a week or so the dog gets a balanced diet, one day perhaps feed chicken wings and veg, next day muscle meat and RMB, etc. It compares with the current thinking of humans not needing a 'balanced' meal at each sitting, but a balance over a period of several days (but you still can't live on Mac Donalds!)

<< But you still can't live on MacDonald's!>

Boo-Hoo!!

I dont know how anyone can love macdonalds!! its repellant in every way!

OOOOOO if i was not on a diet i could eat mcdonalds all day yummy :D

LOL!! yukky!!  its so salty and the burgers are sweaty and smelly! (if i have to have a burger i go to burger king).
not to mention the 'chicken' mcnuggets... dodgy or what! (i used to eat those).

Lol dont get me wrong I could eat burger king every day too lol