Dam beaver, big bison, green tripe, it is making my mouth water just writing it down! What to feed us has been evolving since Mom got her first dog almost thirty years ago. Dog foods have also been evolving during this time. Mom switched from cheap kibble all the way up to supposedly the best kibble. Next came dehydrated food where she added water and protein. Finally, she figured out how to serve us raw.
Madison never ate her food. She didn’t like it and has always been on the thin side until raw came into her life. Now she chows down with the rest of us. Mom says she could never be a person who buys all the stuff, grinds, and mixes it up. When she found out you can buy raw pre-packaged, we switched. In the beginning we bought our food from a nice store where they sold it in five pound pails. For three of us at the time, it was quite expensive.
After asking around for a while, Mom found out about a place just over an hour away that sells raw in bulk. It is much less expensive than the store for sure. With four of us, we had to have a different option. Now we drive up there every three to four months and buy four to five hundred pounds of food. When we arrive it is waiting for us on a cart in the big walk in freezer. We take it home, package it up and put it in our own freezer. That is green tripe on top. It is super healthy, smelly, and we love it!
It seems that the raw world is a bit different, but we find it quite interesting. The place we make our big purchase has Alpacas that greet us most of the time when we show up. We love to see them.
At Madison’s nose work class a couple weeks ago, someone gave her a dehydrated piece of duck. She went crazy over it. Mom found out it is sold by another raw food place, so she went on line to buy a bag. It turns out this place has pick up spots around the cities a couple times a month. As she checked their website she found lots of interesting proteins for us. She could not believe they have five pound packages of beaver! Nelson and I opted to go along to make the pick up. We always love a car ride.
The pick up spot is just twenty minutes from our house. Mom ordered three tubes of food for us to try and the treats for Madison (but we all get to share). This company is about twice the price of our other raw place but for some unusual foods, why not get some now and then. Mom ordered the beaver, a bison/pork/green trip mix, and frontier mix with bison/beaver/venison/green tripe. I have to say, it all smells great and I can’t wait to give it a try!
Madison is loving her trail mix with dehydrated duck and beef. Hopefully it will help her do better sniffing at her next nose work trial. I hear that is one of the main goals of buying that stuff. Bailie also had a piece and says it is delicious.
Mom says we will probably buy things now and then because it is always good to eat something different. The pick up is easy. Everything is in big cooler bags outside, all labeled, and you just grab your order and go. Next time she wants to get us some meaty bones to eat with our meals. We are all for it! Having such great food is really something to be thankful for.
PS: After the taste test with beaver, we found our results quite interesting. Nelson, Mr. eats everything he can get his paws on, would not eat the beaver, not for dinner or breakfast. He walked away. We girls absolutely love it! Even Miss Picky Madison wolfs down her portion. I guess we will have to see how Nelson handles the other two new foods in a couple weeks.
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You guys sure do eat great! Quite awhile back, I ate canned Tripett tripe out of a can as a foodable topper and loved it. It was stinky too but it was soooooo yummy!
Mom finds it disgusting in look and smell, but we love it so much! It is healthy for us too, so she gets it for us now and then.
Tripe is routine on our menu, too! We like some of the ‘unusual’ meats around, duck is good. I, Zachary, like bison, but Mia won’t eat it. Those dehydrated treats look interesting – we may need to see if they ship!
We have had bison in treats but never in raw, so we will see how that goes over. It is mixed with other meats so Mom thinks we will like it. Green tripe is just scrumptious but humans are not fans.
I agree with Nelson. I think I would pass it up
He has never not eaten anything since he came to our house, so we are all a bit shocked.
Maybe Beaver is a girl thing? ? And Maybe, Nelson just needed to get his feet wet with it? I hear it is dam good!
LOL! We will see how he handles the other two varieties Mom got for us. If he only will eat the two varieties he has had since he moved in with us, then we know he is being picky and will need to expand his taste horizons.
Wow, who would have thought we could have beaver for dinner!! We are going to have a talk with Mama!
xoxo,
Rosy & Sunny
I know, our mom was surprised too. We girls just love it. Next week we are going to try bison.
OMGirls that Nelson has to march to his own drummer.
You know how boyz are soon he’ll realize you Girlz rule in the tasted test
Hugs Cecilia
He has never turned down food or treats since he came to live with us, so we are all kind of in shock over his refusal.
WOW, y’all are so lucky to get such yummy choices in your healthy foods. Hmmm, Nelson, what’s up with not liking the beaver? Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
He has always eaten the same food rotation so we think he needs to learn that other things can be tossed in. Hopefully he will like the other new foods we are going to be trying.
Everypawdy has at least one or two foods s/he cannot stand. For me, one of the few is mushrooms, maybe for Nelson, it’s beaver.
Yikes, Mom can’t stand mushrooms either. Gramma loves them and used to tell Mom to just eat them as you can’t even taste them. To that, Mom asked then why bother eating them?
Where on earth do you put all 300 pounds of food when you get home?? I’d have to buy a second freezer for all that meat! Actually I’d have to buy a bigger house first. 🤣
We have two freezers in the garage. It works really well actually. We had to get the second freezer when we added Nelson and switched to a different food company because we wanted to have more food on hand so we don’t have to go pick it up so often.
If I start refusing my kibble, is there any chance I might get raw beaver, bison and tripe???
Just wondering…
Toodle-oo!
Nobby.
We don’t know why Nelson is being picky, but he better start eating the other things we got. The beaver was delicious.
What a clever idea! Mom is going to try and find some similar food sources here in Colorado. Wish us luck! Happy noshing on all that tasty stuff.
P.S. Sorry, forgot to add that I’m with Nelson…beaver doesn’t sound all that appetizing to me either. Duck on the other hand…{lips smacking}
Your fur-iend,
Elsa 🐾
Mom was not sure about beaver, but we girls do love it. Duck was really expensive so we didn’t try that but we got dehydrated duck treats instead.
We are getting ready to order some more. Mom says we will get something different a couple times a month, just for variety. Hope you can find a place with interesting foods.
We love raw, but novel proteins are hard to come by here in the UK but the beaver sounds amazing
Weirdly though we can get kangaroo which is really tasty xxx
We have had kangaroo jerky and it was really tasty!
Oh wow, you girls are getting quite adventurous with your food! I can’t believe you buy 400 lbs of food at a time – I thought that was a typo at first LOL!! I haven’t fed raw, I’m still weird about it, but I have tried some dehydrated raw, which my girls loved. They love duck too! I can’t imagine they would eat beaver, but if Madison likes it, it must be good.
It is just easy to buy a huge load, fill the freezers and then have what we need on hand for several months. Mom didn’t want to do all the work to make it, but now that we know how to get it already ground together, it is easy to feed. Mom adds things like veggies and fruits too sometimes. We all love it and do well on it.