puppies and raw meat

[lotsafun]

hiya all my pups are now 3 weeks old and was told that now we can start introducing solid food to them, one thing in particular we were told was to roll small balls of mince and give the pups 1 a day, but they did not say if this should be raw or cooked meat. Has anyone else been told about this?

[woofgang]

I know the lady who bred our dogs used to buy a piece of steak and scrape over it with a dinner knife to get a sort of steak puree off it, no fat, sinew or anything and offer the pups VERY small amounts of this but that was 20 years ago. Unless you are going to do RAW or BARF feeding, more usual these days is to make a porridge from specialist weaner puppy food. Who is telling you this stuff about mince and why can't you go back and ask them for more info...you don't sound very prepared to have these pups with respect????

[lotsafun]

I did feel i was prepared as id done lots of research but with it also being my first litter of pups, and with being told so may differnt things from various people ive worried about doing the 'wrong' thing. It was our vet who gave us this advice when we took them for worming last week. He said meat was much better than giving them some of the dried foods as they contain so much rubbish that it can give the pups food intolerences (never heard of this before). Up until that point i had dried puppy food already here for them but given what he has said in cautious about giving it to them now :-(. Our usual vet is on annual leave now and the vet filling in for him is now asking us to go back down to see him rather than just give us a bit of advice on the phone, obviously i dont want another consultation charge vets are expensive! lol.

[woofgang]

the quality dog foods list the ingredients like human food does. If the pups are thriving on what you are doing then I wouldn't change it.