Comments on #13 Kasie Maxwell: How to make the jump to raw - Vital Animal® § The Natural Path

I have a 7 year old standard goldendoodle--a lovely dog. He has been on a raw diet based on Pitcairn's book for over 6 years. We do feed some oats and sweet potatoes, which I may try to reduce both quantity and frequency. He also seems to have trouble with chicken (gets jelly poops), but does great on turkey, beef, bison, venison, chukker, etc. His one issue is he sometimes will not eat in the morning, acts nauseous and sometimes throws up bile. If I catch it soon enough, Nux Vomica will often interrupt this process, but I would like to help him get over this. I would say he has a sensitive stomach generally. He gets pastured chicken wings as well. I used Pitcairn's Healthy Powder and make my own egg shell powder. I try to get him to eat sardines on occasion, though he is not a fan. Any ideas about the morning puking?

Excellent podcast. Very informative. Thank you

I have been making raw cat food for 6 years now with chicken thighs, bones, hearts, gizzards and livers. I have two cats lived to 20 years old been fed with both dry and canned food but another cat loved dry food and died of fatty liver disease. I learned how important that is to feed them good nutritious food so I switched to make my own.
Now I have a question whether it is a good idea to incorporate some wild caught fishes in the mix. They like fish so we do add some canned fish (not tuna) in their raw food.

I tried raw food for my (then 1 year old) dog over a year ago (various commercial brands and proteins.) She came from kibble, transitioned over a couple of weeks and did OK for a couple of weeks after, but then for 3-4 months after that, we had ever more frequent vomiting (6-8 hours after a meal and by the end every day.) We tried more frequent meals, digestive enzymes, switching brands, switching protein, lower fat, mixing in raw goat milk/kefir, etc... nothing helped. Finally had to abandon raw and now feed various commercially prepared 'lightly/gently cooked' foods and while she had some vomiting even after the switch, we're now stable for months, no vomiting. I've thought to dip my toe back into raw (maybe switching from lightly cooked be easier?) but am nervous to get back to the daily vomiting. Any advice?