[Dailydrool] question about raw meat

[Carmen Kraus]

Never had any trouble here with any raw meat.  Cats have been on raw for 
about 6 or 7 years and the dogs are given raw drumsticks and raw 
beef/deer ribs all the time.  We give them raw hamburger meat with meds, 
especially the nasty tasting ones, to be sure they eat all of it.  One 
of my mom's tricks to getting puppies to eat their dewormer powder years 
ago was to roll it in the center of a hunk of hamburger meat, worked 
every time. 
Cats and raw beef don't always get along though, I've had 2 that would 
eat a piece of beef or hamburger and throw it back up within a few minutes.

On the salmonella thing, use common sense.  If it's been on the counter 
all day toss it out, if it smells funny toss it out, if a cat looks at 
it and gives you the WTF look, toss it out (I've often used the cats to 
tell me if something was 'off' when my sinuses weren't functioning 
enough to smell, they are usually right on and will not touch spoiled meat).

Carmen


kacy green wrote:
> I understand many droolers feed a raw diet so maybe you can answer 
> this for me....or anyone else, feel free to chime in....
>  
> Can dogs be given raw hamburger meat?
>  
> Can they be given raw chicken? (Not necks and such, but trimmings from 
> chicken breasts when we are grilling for ourselves, etc)
>  
> I assume they can process this stuff fine since many have spoken of 
> feeding raw diets, but it just seems so weird to hand out raw 
> hamburger or chicken. The salmonella factor always worries me with 
> chicken although I have no idea if that effects dogs too....and the 
> raw hamburger just kind of grosses me out, so not sure. We would never 
> feed this as a meal but might give it as a special treat when we are 
> cooking it, etc.
>  
> Thanks,
> Kacy with Cow and Ru (who are hoping you all say these things are ok)
>