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AmyG

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May 10 11 1:55 PM

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How do you all feed your hearts? Can your dogs cope with the whole or do you chunk them? I have to confess heart is one of my least favorite bits to butcher, it just smells really metalic with the smell of blood.

So for my own convenience, I confess, is it ok to give Jess a whole heart not chopped up?

She is coping fine with chicken but really does not do well or pork ( well meat and bone but liver is ok

) so we are have lamb hearts to try.

On a side note can anyone explain why she might be ok with pigs liver but terrible with ribs or chops etc?

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May 10 11 2:37 PM

Obi loves lambs' hearts

I feed them to him whole, he doesn't seem to have any problem with them that way. I was in a strange little shop the other day and they had tray of frozen chicken hearts! Never seen them before, very expensive though

Not sure about the pork, but it doesn't really agree with Obi either and I tend to avoid it.

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May 10 11 4:28 PM

Apart from chicken hearts, which I feed whole, I have only ever fed an ox's heart

The lovely butcher man chopped it up for me. It was hoooooge! It weighed nearly 2 kilos, and he charged me £4 (it was an organic ox's heart), which I thought was a bargain, because I got several meals out of it. Not sure what kinds of a size pigs' hearts and lambs' hearts are. But if your dog is coping well with the whole thing, I'm sure it's OK to give it as a large lump.

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May 10 11 4:38 PM

Pigs hearts are about fist sized for me, perhaps a little larger and Lambs about the size of a peach. I was worried about her tying to swallow it whole, I can only but the whole and frozen so far so I have o defrost them if I want to cut them up. I can't get the butcher to do it

. I know its wussy I am actually better with a whole animal thanjust the heart

Thanks for the info both of you I am just still a little nervous.

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May 10 11 4:43 PM

I have fed whole but was a little paranoid about the gulp factor so have taken to chopping into quarters.

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May 10 11 5:13 PM

QUOTE (AmyG @ May 10, 2011 04:38 pm)

I know its wussy I am actually better with a whole animal thanjust the heart

Thanks for the info both of you I am just still a little nervous.

I see now why you are worried, if they are the perfect size for gettig stuck in their throats

If they are too gross to cut up by hand (I'm squeamish too

), could you throw them into a food processor and make heart slush which you pour into her bowl? I can cope with most things in the food processor, I just kind of chuck the gross stuff in, slam the lid on, and press Start

. I know it would defeat the purpose of the dog tearing at large lumps of meat, thereby keeping their teeth clean etc, but presumably she gets other opportunities to do that, so you could feed her heart 'soup' on the days that she has them?

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May 10 11 5:25 PM

Hmm, it seem I will just have to "man up" and cut it then. I am just getting sorted with the raw thing so she does have chunks ofmeat in the form of chicken whole legs etc but in all honesty I want to get it to be as little faff as possible. I will see about other sources but at the moment I am finding my feet and trying different foods so I know what I can order in bulk when I am more up for it.

As for the tearing, she doesn't do that, even chewing stuff and with kongs she doesnt hold it in her paws so she just kind of chomps at it until a chunk is mouth sized

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May 10 11 7:00 PM

Amy I was terribly squeamish when I first started feeding raw, I hated even skinning a chicken leg

as time has gone on I've got used to it and can even skin and gut a rabbit (if I have to

) Don't rush into the chopping stuff up stuff if you don't need to, as time goes on you will get more confident and teh smell does bother you less, heart is probably one of the strongest smelling meats as you say except for tipe that still makes me gag.

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May 11 11 7:34 AM

If you have a chewer then I would say yes feed it whole but if like me you have a gulper then chop it up.
Mine can tolerate all raw except beef, although I might try that again as it might just have been because they were new to raw at the time.

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May 11 11 8:55 AM

QUOTE (selina @ May 10, 2011 04:43 pm)

I have fed whole but was a little paranoid about the gulp factor so have taken to chopping into quarters.

I do the same as Selina, we've got a couple of gulpers and they are pretty solid chunks to get lodged so it's chopped up for some of mine, ours love pork, never had a problem with it, not one of them

Like Sandra I don't give mine beef apart from ox heart which is only once a week. Why not wear rubber gloves, get a decent pair of Marigolds that you can wear, wash off and use time and again, sorted!
I'm far from squeamish but I hate and detest handling liver

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May 11 11 11:48 AM

I always cut it up so it lasts longer

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May 11 11 1:15 PM

I chopped it and fed it, its not touching it or anything, is just the smell and the clots

UGH.

Nevermind, the things we do for animals. I am not squemish really its just something about heart

Raw liver no gloves is fine, hand fed tripe is fine. Clearly I am a bit of a weirdo.

I think the cats will be next on raw and I will have to cut it then or find someone to do it for me.

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May 11 11 2:11 PM

Stuffed with a sage and lemon stuffing then braised slowly in red wine

But when Nesta gets them, I tend to give them in pieces.

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Oct 13 11 11:34 PM

Our girls sadly will only eat any offal flash fried.. but thats not a problem a few seconds in the pan and they are both there by the cooker and a waiting lol
Once a week they have liver .ox /lamb/pigs whichever i can pick up the cheapest knock down price lol from the supermarket and I also can pick up plenty of heart esp from morrisons.. I flash fry it for a few secs and girls woof it down.
I feed raw to the girls but really don't mind flash frying their offal lol

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Oct 14 11 8:30 AM

I to have to flash fry offal, well its almost cooked. But I add garlic to help combat the smell. although the other day the butcher gave me a heart which he kindly chopped for me, and it didnt smell when cooking it !!! Guess thats because it was pretty fresh??

Bailey gets offal for breakfast once a week, not a huge amount though

Not really sure how much to feed?

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Oct 15 11 11:13 PM

It doesn't smell so bad if you do it under water with a pair of scissors but don't cut frozen meat with scissors I chopped the end off my finger doing that because my hand was numb and I didn't realise til I saw all the blood. The heart under water not you that is.

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