Hello everyone.  I've recently arrived from Australia (Queensland) and am preparing for the arrival of my dog in February and hope you can help me out.
My dog is nearly 9 months old and has been on the barf diet since he was 8 weeks old.  Since arriving in London, I've been been staying with my sister and have put her dog onto the same diet and in the last 3 months he has lost weight (he was pudgy!), looks younger and his coat has really improved.  I buy chicken wings and various bones in supermarkets but when I've asked for recreational bones and chicken carcasses, I'm told they don't keep/have them.  I've been quite surprised at the response I've had for bones and would like to know what barf feeders here (especially in London) do. 

I have other queries (!) but I'll post them in other forums.

Thank you.

Hi, if you want bones then the best place to go is a butcher shop. Some will let you have them for free, others will charge but usually they are not very dear :) Supermarkets used to always have bags of bones for the dogs, but sadly they don't or are not allowed to do it anymore. HTH

Dee

Hi Dee - thanks for your suggestion.  I wonder why supermarkets can no longer sell bones either for dogs or stock making? Oh well, I'll try a friendly butcher.  Thank you.

The reason that most supermarkets cannot help is that they do very little butchering on the premises (it takes up expensive retail space). So they effectively never bone out a carcas and hence never have 'dog bones'.

Having said that I had one refuse to sell me stale bred or bread crumbs, because they were afraid that I would hold them liable for possibly selling stuff after its sell by date - what is the world comming to?

You need to look in your yellow pages for a poultry processor, they will sell you carcases etc.  Otherwise get in touch with your local dog clubs, they are bound to have raw feeders as members who can point you in the right direction.  Often club members buy in bulk so that you can buy raw food really cheaply, much cheaper than in supermarkets.

HTH

Hi Tohme - thanks for that suggestion and I'll certainly follow up on it!