Is that Hills Science plan stuff any good? Seems quite expensive. My puppy is eating Pedigree Chum Puppy meat mixed in with some Pedigree Chum Mixer. I am thinking of swapping him over onto a complete dry food though not sure which. Might get a nice raw meaty bone at weekend too see if he likes it!

Hills (science diet) are 1 of the companies mentioned in the book 'Food Pets Die For'......so it's worth a read in my opinion.......

For people who struggle to get going on the BARF/RMB diet, if your pooch doesn't take to chicken wings at first, either slice the wing open to expose the meat under the skin, and even make a bit of a game with the food at first to get them interested, or try chicken carcasses, which are easier to chomp on.......I get carcasses in a box of approx 100 all for £2.50

so whats so bad about the hills stuff? Or any of the dry foods? I like the idea of feeding this raw bones stuff but i dont have a freezer for one and I dont like the idea of stinky carcass' hanging around the place!

When i got Nanook as a puppy he was on bakers complete puppy argggggh went right through him so i tried many other things they did the same till i came across James well beloved he was fantastic on that.........but was very pricey thats why i opted to do the BARF as its alot healthier for them and cheaper for me too

My dogs turds are quite firm no sloppy messes on my carpet! I do wanna give him a good food though but never thought that the food in the shops were bad for them.

Are you aware what goes into petfood......please don't take offence to this, just wondered, because I didnt have the foggiest until several years ago.......I used to feed our first lab on the pedigree complete diet, until I looked into pet food and what it contained as she(our lab) had allergic reactions in a bad way......anyway cut a long story short it was not diet related, as she was tested to see if she was allergic to different food sources, which she wasn't she's got airborne allergies (such as pollens).....but this was the time when i started to look into natural feeding and natural remedies for my dogs.........

I'm waffling now - but my point is if people new what went into petfood, not just dogfood......yes BARF is for cats too.....then peoples views would change dramatically I feel.........the law will never change as to what companies SHOULD list on ingredients labels as this would cripple the petfood industry.......certain words spring to mind.......rendering plants, fecese(spelt wrong I know but poo basically), sawdust........dead and diseased animals...........

Make up your own minds guys

Forgot to add........these companies are GREAT at marketing........people look at this before if at all looking deeper

Great reading books on BARF/RMB, are any of the books by Billinghurst and Lonsdale.......explain a lot and elaborate on the many myths about this way of feeding, which is waht puts MOST people off.........knowledge is POWER people

when they are frozen they dont stink lol plus you get used to the smell

STINKY carcasses.....only if you let them start to go off mate

yeah which you dont tend to let happen lol if ya freeze them then defrost and feed when defrosted then ya shouldnt have any stink lol