Where to buy RAW dog food and disgusting burying habit

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Oriel

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Hi, I'm a first time dog owner and I've had my Border Collie (now 6 months old) on the RAW diet for about 3 months and was wondering if there is anywhere I can buy supplies of meat.

My local butcher makes me feel uncomfortable when I go in and ask for anything suitable for my dog - he makes pet mince but its disgusting and my dog won't eat it and I don't blame him!

I'm buying Sainsbury's 'basic' lamb and mince, etc but it still works out pretty expensive. Is there a pet supplier of good quality meat for dogs?

Also, my dog (if not kept in while eating) will go out and bury his food. He then brings it back in days later, smelling to high heaven and riddled with maggots - is this normal? Surely he'll make himself ill?
 
Thanks for the advice - I'll contact the suppliers

No, I don't let him eat the meat he buries - if I see him with it !

I'll shut him in to eat in future.

He seems to eat very little really. He doesn't want anything till mid-day and then only a couple of chicken thighs or similar then in the late pm he has a lamb shank or ribs. Is this normal? He's got a lovely glossy coat and is extremely lively so I assume he's OK.
 
On raw you only want to feed 2-3% of their ideal adult body weight.... its not much when you start weighing it- a chicken thigh with bone weighs what? 180g? so 2 of them is 360g. Mine is only fed approx 500g a day...... for a 25kg dog, so this plus a lamb shank is MORE than enough.

Have you ever weighed what you feed?
 
I put my dog in a crate with a bare floor before giving him his raw meat, otherwise he would drag it all over the house and bury the bones behind cushions or in the garden.
I have had to stop feeding minced meat as Dylan much prefers to know what he is eating (lol!). If I get stuck I buy chicken wings and cheap(ish) whole chicken from a supermarket and cut it up into portions. Also ox liver, pigs trotters, lamb hearts, spines and ribs from Morrisons, and anything cheap enough from the bargain meat counter.
 
Thanks for the info. No I've never weighed his food - glad to hear he's getting enough. I'll weigh him and his food in future.

He's not food orientated at all - he'd much rather play than eat, which I suppose is a good thing. Perhaps I've been overfeeding and he sees burying his food as storing it in his larder... I should have read up a bit more on how much to give :o

Thanks again for the advice
 
Phone around your local butchers and see if any can get you in chicken carcasses - most will.

We pay £7 for 15 kg of carcasses (about 70), and that's your basic for RAW sorted. Also the butchers should be able to supply you (usually foc) bones and oddments. Tell them not to give you the huge marrow bones though, as they are too hard for teeth.

We get a bin bag full of stuff - ribcages, necks, trotters, liver, etc.

And use companies like Landywoods for the other bits and pieces.

Supermarket deals for yoghurt (live, bio), eggs, cottage cheese, and fruit and vegs.

Thats the way I do it, and it works well (and cheaply) for my gang!
 
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