What's for dinner?

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." -Brillat-Savarin

Gordo and Fargo

We feed our adult dogs a raw diet consisting of meaty bones (mainly chicken wings, necks, backs) and a ground meat and veggie mixture which we prepare ourselves.  We add in various "extras" now and then and give them a good "all-round" supplement on their evening meal.  We usually keep a bag of grain-free kibble on hand too, for times that we forget to thaw their meat, and to use as treats.
We are starting to wean the pups on many of the same foods our adult dogs get.

In the last few days they have had several meals each day consisting of about 2-3 cups of puppy formula with some Evanger's Grain-free Chicken with Sweet Potato and Pumpkin dog food soaked and blended with it.  They slurp this concoction down eagerly.

Cabot

They will also begin getting some fresh raw ground meat for the first time, with some sweet potato and pumpkin mixed in.  We will offer them some raw meaty bones (chicken wings) in the upcoming days and weeks too.  Obviously they can't eat them yet (their teeth are just starting to come in), but will get good exercise and chewing practice working on them.

When it comes time for them to head off to their new homes, we will send the pups with a small supply of the foods they are currently eating and there will be a discussion in their puppy books about making good food choices for them.

Did I mention that some of them are getting teeth?  Capri, Cabot and several of the other parti-colored boys have a pretty good mouthful of sharp little teeth already while Gordo, Fargo and Pixie are a little slower to get theirs.

We have a CD of various noises that we play for the puppies to help get them used to sounds that they may hear when they are older.   They get to hear usual noises from around our house of course (coffee grinder, blender, oven timer, vacuum cleaner) but this CD also has travel sounds (airport terminal, train, helicopter, traffic noise, kennel sounds, dogs barking), things that go boom (fireworks, guns, thunderstorms), animal sounds (geese, ducks, sheep), household sounds (including lawn mower), child sounds (crying) and more.