Tommy Joe wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> I'm ****ed. I just typed a rather long and possibly boring
> response to your post and sent it off but it never took. The two
> posts I typed after that did show up. It could have been my fault.

Came in later (wink)

> Anyway, I've seen actual freezers but have never owned one or
> the space for it either.

The small cube unit we used for years became extra counterspace (bit
low but worked) in some places and was often in others located in the
living room where we had space. It even spent time as a TV stand in
our daughter's room for a bit.


> So you try out your possibly poisoned meat
> on your dogs first, is that it? Like a King who has a peasant sample
> his food before eating it himself, to test for poison or disease. Is
> that it? No really, if I had a dog, I'd make my own dog food too.
> It's probably even cheaper than buying it in the can or box. In my

LOL, yup. Though that's for grain free feeding. If the pooch is
normal, regular alpo and purina will do.

> teens I had a dog with diarrhea. The doctor told me to boil hamberger
> meat with shredded wheat, equal parts, and sure enough, in just a few
> days the problem was gone. Thanks for your post. I hope this one
> takes.

Hehehe I have 3 unique pets. Just out of the perversity of fate, all 3
have issues with grains. The cat, least affected cost me something
like 300$ in vet bills until I figured it out. Medically she's normal
otherwise. She's a rescued true feral with about 6 years outdoor wild
before she adopted us.

Cash, a mind boggling beagle-bull mastiff mix, we figured out fast has
grain issues. He's being treated again for ear yeast. He probably
found the heel of a hotdog bun or something. He's got lots of medical
issues mostly related to a very bad case of heartworms before we got
him. At 56lbs he's 4 lbs over optimal. When we got him, he was 27
lbs. You could count every vertebra in his back from 20 feet away.

Aunti Mabel (beagle/airhead mix) is our new to us 'puppy'. She's
estimated at 14 years of age when we got her in November. She was
pregnant and deaf from ear infections when found abandoned. She was
heartworm positive. They spayed her and treated for heartworms. She'd
knawed most of the fur off her belly and feet by the time we got her.
Grain allergy severe. Kinda shocked the local rescue place when we
took her in for a thanksgiving weekend then said 'she's got her final
home'. She housebroke in 3 days. No sign she'd ever been an indoor
dog before that.

Glad your treatment worked for your pooch! Me, we use grain-free (have
to) and partly raw-feed. Aunti Mabels teeth require we grind any with
bone and you can't feed straight raw without a percentage of bone or
they get sick over longer term. Cash, the big hog inhales food and we
have to grind for him too or he chokes on the bones.

Chuckle, I can grind 16oz of raw meaty bones for less than the cost of
a can of grain-free.




--