Me too!
 

Well, I certainly can't argue with you about what you're going to feed; that is your choice alone. What I don't understand is, if you're going to feed "veggies, yougurt, rice, and eggs" ... why you would choose to add "kibble" to that (@ $3.00/lb) when you could add a chicken thigh for about $0.60/lb?

But, hey, that is your choice

My purpose here was to get the original poster to think about feeding raw, not to try to tell people what to feed.

There is a difference between stating RAW IS BEST (which, in fact, it is) and telling "you" (or anyone else) "what to feed." I will champion the cause of the former to my dying day, but will never once tell another man, or a woman, what they "must" do. There is a huge difference between debating facts and telling someone "what to do" with those facts, and (unfortunately) not too many people understand the difference.

See, I will argue the facts about feeding raw versus feeding kibble, anytime, with any one ... but would never presume to tell another person "what to do" with their own money and dogs. I hope you can appreciate the difference!

Jack

Pixie Bee, I like you. You are very knowledgeable and very honest. You're knowledgeable enough to understand the reality, and honest enough to say you're too lazy to go with it. Nothing wrong with that, hell it is your choice.

I too feed kibble on occasion, when I simply don't have the time to feed raw. I am a photographer too, and sometimes have to get up and split at 5am and don't have time to prepare a meal for a whole kennel of dogs.

However, what I do typically is feed just a handful of kibble to tide the gang over ... until I can come back and do my best for them later on.

Jack

I have a "low buget" raw diet that can be fed for $0.52/lb. I admit, my premium raw diet is about $1.30/lb ... which is still half the cost of these designer kibbles ... but twice as nutritious.

If you're talking a low budget kibble diet, then you need to compare it to a low-budget raw diet, which will beat kibble hands-down.

And if you really want to get innovative, you can go to chicken houses and such and get whole chickens for free in some places ... as well as beef scraps, bones, etc.

I have one friend in Idaho who gets 600 lb of beef scraps for $60 ... so, where there's a will there's a way

Cheers!

Jack

Hi Thelittleblackbook

If your intention is to get me, the original poster, to consider feeding raw then please accept this as confirmation that I have considered it. Not because you suggested it but because I know it is an option. It's just not going to happen though.

I understand you are passionate about what you believe in but your posts on here have been very forceful, whether intentional or not. If you were to put your point across in a more gentle way then perhaps people would be more open to what you have to say. It's npt what you've said, it's the way you have said (typed) it.

Your point about raw is most definately valid but your dictatorship type opinions about it and bragging about how many dogs you have had and have bred and how much time you have spent writing 200,000 words really holds no value here when you type such an aggressive reply. There are lots of people on here that have had just as much experience as you but most importantly everyone on here loves their dogs and wants what's best for them with in the limitiations of their lifestyle, preferences and budget.

The underlining of words and bold letters is really not necessary if your only intention was to get me to consider raw. It just makes for a very aggressive post which people do not like. If you weren't intentionall being aggressive then hopefully you will realise now what that kind of expressive typing portrays.

I hope you will continue to post, as someone with your experience is of great value but please be more conscious of how you type things as not to give the wrong impression.

Kam

Thank you joeybean.

What's important, to me, is that we present ourselves and others with respect.
This is a wonderful forum.
I have nothing to sell, nothing to gain from posting on here - my only agenda is to present to the reader theories for debate,which sometimes create controversy and anger - we all choose to feel the way we do for reasons only known to ourselves.

People do rub others the wrong way - so, we need to examine why - the answer may become a growing experience for all parties involved.

I'm sure Jack is a good guy - he has good theories on feeding and breeding.
Adding to the forum would be appreciated rather than the occasional interruption to tell others what they are doing wrong.






 

After a substantial amount of cleaning up, that unfortunately required deleting many post that were informative and I'm sure took a great deal of time for the Author's to compose, I think we can now get this thread back to what it was originally about.

Any further straying into "the other arena" will not be tolerated and discussion will take place with the Board Owner about possible corrective actions. Please ignore and do not respond to any trollish post and allow the Moderators/Owner to deal with it.

Thanx Kindly in Advance,

Thank you.