Thread: My raw feeding experiment

I am really interested in this topic as I try to feed both Choo Choo and my dog a bit of raw. The dog prefers it, but Choo likes sachets with a bit of raw occasionally. Am going to try an egg.

My local butchers sells "pet mince" which looks and smells disgusting, but they both like it. It comes frozen and sometimes when defrosting it I accidentally cook it a little, which has helped get them interested.

I am squeamish and don't eat much meat at all, but I do my best wearing rubber gloves, lol. When I started experimenting I naively bought all sorts of meat, including deli scraps. BIG mistake! Choo was fine and loved it, but the dog was very ill so now meat only comes fresh from the butcher and never a supermarket. Choo seems to like raw lamb mince, also chicken and turkey, but not raw fish.

Frozen mice and chicks have been mentioned and having to buy them in large quantities. When I had a pet snake I bought both in ones or twos from local pet shops. I'm sure it must still be possible to buy them like that as snakes don't eat very often, so people with one snake wouldn't buy in large quantities. We used to defrost them in foil, near a radiator, rather than put them in the microwave, yuk.