Raw feeding whole fish?

GwylimT

no1catman wrote: »

Why would you consider - 'chucking him and it into the yard'??

Is the dog a pet, or a feral animal you are afraid of.

With a 'pet' surely it's more normal to prepare the food, put it into the pet's food bowl/dish, and then put it down for the 'pet' to eat.
Why would you not do that?

Do you like having raw fish dragged around the kitchen floor? My dog is eating a rabbit at the moment, he is eating it in the garden, oddly enough he doesn't use a knife and fork or have table manners!

ali-t

My dog turns her nose up at raw white fish but loves it cooked. She will eat anything bar white fish raw - must be something about the texture. Like the others i would do fish gradually

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

no1catman wrote: »

Why would you consider - 'chucking him and it into the yard'??

Is the dog a pet, or a feral animal you are afraid of.

With a 'pet' surely it's more normal to prepare the food, put it into the pet's food bowl/dish, and then put it down for the 'pet' to eat.
Why would you not do that?

Have you ever seen an animal eat something that isn't a blob of gloop out of a tin?

I wouldn't give my cat a pilchard in pieces in a bowl on the kitchen floor; he manages to get 'pet food' over the kitchen floor at the best of times and he hasn't read the memo about putting mice into a bowl to eat them neatly, either; I suspect he'd only do that for the entertainment value of watching the poor things reenact The Wall of Death around its edges.

All potentially messy/pickupable/smelly when carried off and abandoned partly eaten under the sofa/up the stairs/under the kitchen table type food items get fed to him outside.


Dogs, having had them as pets (or at least having seen one before outside a picture in a book), are even messier eaters. And if they're the type to have a meal twice _pale_, then the last thing you want is to have them anywhere indoors at the time.



Elsien, I'd probably want to know exactly what fish it was first - sea bass have stupidly tough and sharp bits, for example, and I think you'd need to check whether it had been scaled first, whatever species, as otherwise Gitdog's offerings could have a distinct disco glitteriness about them for a while. I'd probably lop off the various ends and pointy bits and then chop it into chunks not quite as big as Gitdog's throat, just in case it's too tasty, so round about chicken leg size.

HB58

Gitdog is clearly of the canine persuasion - what is the situation with cats?

I feed my 2 cats 99% raw and they do very well on it. However, they are not used to whole fish so I'm not sure what to do with the whole trout I have for them. If I try to remove fins and bones they end up a soggy mush and one of the 'porpoises' of giving something whole is to provide something to chew on.

Should I remove the gills and vertebrae and leave the smaller bones, or should I remove all bones?

If it matters - my one cat is a big lad at 6.5kg, the other - although fully grown - is more like a kitten at 2kg.