I’m doing cooked, I just feel more comfy with that and we’ll see how she does 
She already seems to have even more energy, and less poop. I know about those fillers in dog food and home no one is too sensitive here but she was taking pretty big dumps for such a little thing. I’m thinking now she is absorbing more nutrients instead of stuff coming out her body isn’t using
Keto for my little dog?
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#53
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#55
Last night, with no issues, so far, Mimmie and I had Wild Caught Salmon. I just gave her 1.5 oz of that, and just a few kibbles bits as scared to go completely without, but getting more brave as thing are going so good. This a.m. I decided on her just having a 1.5 oz of my omelette before I put the cheese on. Picture below. So there is egg, sausage, spinach, chia seed, nutritional yeast, and flaxseed same as I eat, tsp of each on whole omelette, then cut off her chunk. Also, my breakfast sausage is so lite it’s not seasoned pretty much. Hope it sets well with her today. Used olive oil, usually butter but for her, I don’t want dairy.
Gonna take her out now, and here’s a pic of her brekkie
ctviggen
(Bob M)
#56
While that’s true, it’s unclear what cooking does to meat. Is there a change in the protein? Something that becomes less available (to overcome what the cooking improves)?
The main reason for wanting to know is because cooking meat at least reduces the possibility of pathogens.
MeganNZ
(Megan)
#57
Hi Goldengirl,
I feed my dogs a mix of raw meat (usually chicken because it is the least expensive here), raw eggs, some raw lamb liver once a week, tinned mackerel in natural oils cooked up with wholegrain oats every week or two (make sure you cook the oats thoroughly) and Acana kibble (grain free). And sometimes I cook up some ground beef and toss some veg in. They are all extremely healthy with beautiful skin and coats.
Years ago I thought I was feeding them quality food (a medium expensive commercial brand) until I read the ingredient list. Oh my goodness, since when do dogs eat some of the stuff in it?!
As for transitioning dogs from what they usually eat to something new, do it slowly so your dog doesn’t have any gastrointestinal upset. Add a bit of the new food to their existing food, increasing the new food every few days while decreasing the amount of the existing food.
If you give your dog bones to chew make sure they are raw. Dogs can’t digest cooked bone. Choose soft bones like veal. Hard bones like pork and some lamb and beef are rough on their teeth if they get them often. I give my dogs raw chicken, bone and all. I watched them initially to make sure they crunched the chicken up (drums, portions, thighs) before swallowing. Your wee one would probably enjoy necks and wings, being a small dog.
My dogs also love raw veg like zucchini and mushrooms so I often slip them a few bits when I’m preparing my meals. Gone are the days of eating fruit, even carrots are off the menu for me at the moment, but they love fruit and raw carrots too.
Stopping feeding “commercial grain based dog food” is like stopping eating the standard western diet. We need to challenge and change our “programming” and ignore all the advertising hype. We’re not supposed to eat processed foods with lots of numbers and weird words in the ingredient list, neither are dogs 
All the best! Let us know how you’re both getting on.
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#58
Thank you for all the info Megan I will keep folks up to date during this transition, she is doing good so far as I mentioned above. I feel better about it all too, way better
JJFiddle
(Judy Thompson)
#59
Lots of posts! Looks like mine will be well edited by the time I finish.
My Yorkiepoo Mimsy is the same age and general weight as Mimmie. Mimsy is 5½ and has been on mostly raw since I got her at 10 weeks in Feb 2017. My daughter, then 30, insisted.
I started Mimsy out on Answers dog food, then when it was hard to get I fed her Primal, both the frozen and freeze dried. For treats I bought dehydrated raw chicken, very expensive!
Then we started spending more time in the Texas Hill Country where raw dog food wasn’t available and I Googled recipes for raw dog food, hoping I could make up the difference myself. I found the website Dogs Naturally, watched 5 hours of videos and developed a recipe.
Since then, Mimsy eats the following -
Dehydrated chicken breast
Dehydrated organ meats (mostly liver)
Food I make:
1 lb grass-fed hamburger
1 lb ground turkey
2 carrots, cooked
Heaping tsp bone meal
3 pcs raw bacon
I grind the bacon, carrots and bone meal together in a food processor and mix with the ground meats. To freeze the food I make 8 little tsps of food in a row on aluminum foil and roll it up, then feed her 4 in the morning and 4 in the evening.
During the day she gets dehydrated chicken and liver treats.
Since I’ve been carnivore she waits patiently while I eat in hopes of bites of my food - she’s not usually disappointed
Mimsy won’t touch Milk Bones, kibble or any other treat or even human food containing starches.
brownfat
(Todd Allen)
#60
I saw a presentation by a conservation biologist studying the coyote population of Cook county. The average age of death is only 3 years old and a common cause of death is being hit by cars. Looking in to it further nearly all getting run over are badly parasitized and as their vigor declines they shift from hunting to foraging road kill accelerating their health decline and putting them at much higher risk of becoming road kill. Eating raw meat was not their only parasite exposure but it is a big one. Commercial meats probably have a much lower parasite load especially if flash frozen but there is a potential safety trade off with raw food.
Shortstuff
(Allie)
#61
Dogs are naturally resistant to the pathogens in raw meats though, because it is what they are designed to eat. Cats are too.
Discobutter
#62
The mix I’m currently using is called They Love It (!) I don’t know how much calcium is in bone broth but I’m sure you could do a quick comparative calculation online. Really important to include offal for dogs- liver and another non secreting organ such as heart and anything else you can get your paws on.
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#64
Thanks for this Todd as I like to see both sides of the equation so I can weigh it all out. BTW, Mimmie is thriving on the foods I eat (the meats, eggs, and just yesterday I bought a good organic “recommended” canned pumpkin to add in). I also give her sprinkles of my nutritional yeast, Chia Seeds, and flaxseed.
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#65
Like I just told Todd, I like having both sides of the issue so I can make my decision on things. I am in favor of cooking Mim’s meats, eggs, and fish. But I will read your link, and appreciate what you have to say Allie
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#66
Even with raw meats, etc. It still is in question where it came from so I’ll just keep that in mind when I feel kind of bad that I can’t buy more expensive frozen packs, or right off the cow. I started this thread because I don’t like eating in front of my little dog, and she smells what I am cooking, so now, she’s eating what I deem to be healthy meats (the best I can afford) eggs, and fish.
She’s adapting to it very well from what I see. She has more energy than she did have already, yikes, more walks, LoL, maybe a treadmill 
Eventually, I will be sure how much to feed her but for now it’s at 3 oz per day split to two meals so she can eat with me. She doesn’t get to sit at the table though
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#68
Mimmie will be getting her checkups, and I do like my vet very much, he was thorough and took time with me as well, talking about things. I also met another vet when going with a neighbor to take her little dog to be put down, or most likely. Her dog was just 10 
She couldn’t walk much, hind legs were just folded up:sweat: and she was just skin and bone.
The vet was very good, as well as his nurse, they did an x-ray which showed cancer and I saw the x-rays as well and he explained them to neighbor and I. It was then I began thinking much more about Mimmie’s health, and anything I could do to prevent something like this horrible disease.
Surprisingly, maybe not so, I know the neighbor fed her dog people food, but I also know that my neighbor doesn’t do keto or low carb, but she thinks she eats healthy.
She herself has bladder ulcers but won’t even consider looking at some info I’ve found that might help with those. Oh well, I’m getting off on the wrong thing here.
coopdawg
#69
I had a former dog, Gus (half doberdor, half know wtf), who was such a good begger he got basically a share of every evening meal. Including takeaways (before i knew of the dangers of onions to pups, andd had a penchance for chinese take away food).
Happiest pup in the world!
And lived to about 15.5 (human years) before dieing of pancreatitus.
Heart breaking, but the end was quick and suffering short. Not bad longevatity, considering.
I’ll post a photo of him. No offense to anyone btw! (He was celebrating 12th July at the time!. Peace!).
Goldengirl52
(Denise)
#70
No offense taken here CD, and I know my little Toney, my first dog ever, died at 15 but I didn’t know what of. That was in 2006, and I’m only learning/thinking about what our pets eat since I’m now so focused on what we here are eating to better our health. Her nor I will live forever, but we can maybe miss out on a lot of sickness and pain before we croak!
Beautiful dog btw, and we do the best we can in this life, and it’s a bonus to find out the truth about something so important as healthy nutrition
coopdawg
#71
Well, here’s the latest addition!!!
Admittedly is a wee bit like Gus, and that was intentional tbh.
Carly. My baby.
robintemplin
(Robin)
#72
Question: What’s better than puppy breath?
Answer: Nothing. Well, except the actual puppy.