It is important to observe your dog’s stool while on a raw diet. If your dog strains to go to the bathroom or has white/crumbly stool, then too much bone is being fed in your dog’s diet. Just include more boneless meats to the meal. If the stool is too soft, then the dog hasn’t had enough bone or simply has had too many organ meats. If the stool is too soft and had mucous, then too much skin and/or fat is in the dog’s diet.

• Yes, when feeding raw, dogs tend to drink less water because they are getting a lot of water just from the moisture held in raw meats. When eating kibble, dogs tend to drink more water because kibble has no water content held already in what they are consuming in their meals.

• The prey model raw diet is an imitation of a wild canine’s natural diet. Except it doesn’t include having to hunt for wild prey. It is where the canine is fed a variety of cuts from different animals. Paw Lickin’ Good provides prey model ratio blends. These blends consist of 80% muscle meat, 10% organ, and 10% bone.

• When transitioning to raw, there will be times where your pet will become constipated or have loose stools. If it seems as if your dog is constipated, the answer is that you fed too much bone. The next step to solve this would be to feed a meal of boneless meats. This will help balance out the extra bone that was fed. Paw Lickin’ Good provides a boneless blend and many of individual boneless meats for this of needed. If your dog’s bowels still aren’t moving, fast your dog for 24 hours to allow their system to take a rest.

• Diarrhea can occur during the beginning stages of raw. Also, they might have some spots of bright red blood in the stool. Don’t worry about rushing to the vet. This means the large intestine is irritated. It could be caused by small scratches in the GI tract caused by very bony stools.
• 1. Remove any skin/fat from the meat you are feeding.
  2. Feed more bone. Once stool starts to firm up, start cutting down on the excess bone being fed and return to a normal amount.
  3. Reduce feeding size. Overfeeding can shock the system and cause diarrhea.

  If having diarrhea from an introduction of a new protein or organ, simplyfeed the last items fed until stool is back to normal. After a couple days of improvement, introduce new proteins or organs very slowly.

• There is very slim chances that your dog will come down with salmonella poisoning. Most salmonella cases are caused by contaminated kibble. Hygiene plays the biggest role here because if you properly disinfect any surface that the raw meat touches, you’re fine. If you are concerned about your dog’s safety, it is good to know that a dog’s stomach is way more acidic than humans. They are built to handle raw meats. The acidic level kills most bacteria that could be in the dog’s stomach.

• Raw meats don’t make a dog aggressive. The way your dog is brought up is what makes a dog’s attitude. Aggression and resource guarding are commonly mistaken for one another. Resource guarding is when a dog guards or protects by showing teeth, growling, snarling, or even blocking them with their body, a high-value item from other dogs or people.

• No, dogs are carnivores. Yet, dogs are very adaptable, but it isn’t the best diet for a dog to follow in omnivore’s diet.

• This is mostly untrue. The only part that is true is that humans have changed the external appearance and temperament of dogs, not their internal anatomy and Physiology. Dog’s bodies are set up to eat raw way more than processed foods that are high in carbohydrates in grains.

• Yes, all meet dot it’s are not balanced. Your dog needs bone and organ meat as well to obtain the proper nutrients. Feeding a prey model diet is the way to go for a balanced diet for your dog.