Raw Fed Pets

Hi Everyone,

I'm new here. So, hello from my Guide Dog Marie and me. After a few months of battling to find the right commercial dog food for my guide dog, I finally was able to identify and get over my fear of feeding her a raw diet. I discovered that the one and only thing holding me back was travel. When I sat down and looked at a calendar, i saw that even taking work-related travel into account, I don't travel more than a handful of times a year. So I was really just using that as an excuse. This past Sunday was Marie's first day on raw. She is a 46 pound, almost two-year-old Labrador retriever. Being a Guide Dog, she gets a lot of work and exercise every day. So right now she is eating about one pound of bone in chicken (usually leg quarter or a really big thigh) in the morning and a half a pound of boneless chicken breast in the late afternoon.

So far the transition has been great! She has gone from pooping four or five times a day a mound the size of a toy poodle to pooping just a small handful every other day. She also has stopped having bathroom emergencies while working. This is a huge accomplishment for both of us. She is much happier which makes me much happier.

I watch her dance and prance around for her food with her big brown eyes shining knowing that I'm doing what she as a carnivore not only deserves, but needs. Sure, some people are grossed out or think it's "too much work" but it's no harder to plop chicken down on a plastic mat than it is to dump kibble in a bowl! Scoop or scale. Measuring is measuring. I'd rather measure the good stuff. :)

So, what's the best and easiest way to do travel with a dog on a raw diet?

I'll be traveling for over a week for work in July and don't know if I'll have access to a refrigerator or freezer while on the trip.