And so it begins...

Well actually, it began about 3 years ago when my dad got me my Golden Retriever, Danni, for my hs graduation present.

Then in January of '09, I brought home Emmett--an 8-week old Great Dane. He was my own hs graduation present to me :)

Oh boy have I ever been taking care of my dogs. I started both of them in puppy

kindergarten and obedience, as well as agility and conformation. I have done a lot of work in socializing them and working with their quirks. Alas, Danni is finally coming out of her puppy stage, but Emmett still has a year or two to go before he's mentally mature. Can't wait!! :) Puppies are precious, but adult dogs are a bit more manageable.

So, my current venture with my dogs is getting them on a healthy diet. Poor Emmett has always had a rather sensitive digestive tract...I would like to blame the Eagle dog food company for changing their formula to having GRAIN as their first ingredient. Premium dog food my butt. That was the biggest waste of money in my lifetime.
After he was 11 months or so, I started changing kibble brands around. I went through so many things that had different protein sources...from "Taste of the Wild" to that one $80 bag of Orijen Red...oh my. Learned my lesson to check the price before checking out on that one.

Most recently the pups've been on Kirkland Signature dog food. You know, the Costco brand. That's what our Yellow Lab Major ate for 15 years, and it's the best quality dog kibble out there, in my opinion. But Emmett is still farting...it's worse than a room full of stinky boys playing video games and eating beans and goat chees

e. And poor Danni's head is always itchy.

So after quite a few years contemplating it, I've decided to start feeding them the Raw diet. It's kind of a big deal for them...from now on, they only eat raw meat. [...affordable raw meat ;]

I bought a freezer today, and got four 10 pound bags of chicken quarters for $0.39 per pound. I spent a while separating those into ziploc baggies so that they wouldn't stick together when they freeze.

I'm going to let them finish the bag of kibble before we start the diet. So there's probably a week or two before they're officially on raw.

This is going to be an interesting adventure.