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Post by kpaz on Apr 12, 2012 12:53:01 GMT -5
I know!! I found a stash under a pig pile of clean laundry and torn up wrapping paper where he likes to sleep. I found a bunch of toys and THAT. I used those in 6th grade....and now they're coming back to bite me in the rear a decade later
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Post by kpaz on Apr 13, 2012 18:11:34 GMT -5
I went to whole foods today since it was right by where I had to meet someone for lunch, and I found duck and lamb...but it's really expensive. $15-25 a lb. which I really can't afford right now. I'm still trying to get homework done so I can go to the other markets in town. The people we ate lunch with pointed out some places whose butchers could probably help me out with organs, and luckily it's on the way home from school so I can go there next week and talk to them.
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Post by katt on Apr 14, 2012 18:28:10 GMT -5
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Post by kpaz on Apr 14, 2012 19:25:19 GMT -5
o.O Maybe I will need to look again...So I went to the little asian store on the way home from school; it turned out they have no meats other than these strange long fish. I went to the grocery store to talk to the butchers about organs, but they either don't work today or had already gone home. Next door to the market was a little "international food store" which was exciting, until we walked in. Super sketchy. They had one freezer with some lamb meat, but all the "Best by:" stickers had been torn conveniently so that the date was missing and they looked like they had been frozen for decades. I was just preparing beef and accidentally dumped bleach all over it...and I have come to the conclusion that the pork had started to go bad before I froze it, which is why they aren't touching it. So I'm out of food and they're hungry At least I have to go to the store now, so I can stock up on turkey. I'll also buy a whole package of chicken wings and hammer them outside along with the two I have saved in the freezer. Is it ok if most of their meals have bone?
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Post by kpaz on Apr 14, 2012 23:52:34 GMT -5
Alright...well...the store hasn't restocked. I got a bamboo cutting board, a mallet, some cutting shears, turkey breast, and turkey necks. They were completely out of chicken wings, so I'm going to get that tomorrow at a different store where I buy hearts. I tried giving the turkey to all three. Goomba just looked at us like we were trying to kill him. We scruffed Pippin and Ellie to get them to try it. Ellie chewed on it, as if to please us, but really didn't want to eat it and eventually we had to put her down. Pippin tried SO hard not to yawn, and we ended up having to rub his gums on gently pry his mouth open to stick a tiny bit in. He mostly just licked it and tried to push it our with his tongue. I divided some of the breast into small pieces and froze them so I can thaw small pieces at a time and try to get them to eat it.
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Post by katt on Apr 15, 2012 1:46:05 GMT -5
;D Slow and steady wins the race. Mix the little pieces (a few at a time) into their existing food. Or better yet, mix them into some chicken or pork soupies. Each new meat is like a new switch in a way, but with each one the next one goes that much faster.
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Post by kpaz on Apr 15, 2012 16:14:05 GMT -5
I bought a ton of chicken wings, I'm going to crush them in a couple hours. I'm starting to get worried they'll choke or cut their mouths though... am I being paranoid?
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Post by kpaz on Apr 15, 2012 17:42:59 GMT -5
How do I know when I've pulverized them enough? Right now they're all squishy but I have no idea how big the pieces of bone are
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Post by katt on Apr 15, 2012 20:01:25 GMT -5
They are more likely to choke or get cut on a piece of kibble. Now that they're squishy, use the shears and a knife to cut the smooshy wings up into tiny pieces to be mixed into their normal meat. You may want to scruff n stuff a bit of marrow too so they see that it's tasty.
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Post by kpaz on Apr 16, 2012 19:05:59 GMT -5
They aren't taking to it very well :/ I'm not even sure they're eating it, I haven't been home all day but it looks like it's all still there Oy, and the chaos resumes. Cannot wait for summer.
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Post by katt on Apr 16, 2012 21:09:54 GMT -5
Mix it into the soup. Can you get a picture of it? That would be very helpful. You're probably going to have to scruff n stuff at least to start.
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Post by kpaz on Apr 16, 2012 22:25:28 GMT -5
Oh yeah...I forgot about the soup. I need to convince my mom to buy chicken, since they don't like pork and beef as much and it might not really help. I am trying to save all the cash I can find for the vet right now. I'll take a picture in the morning when I prepare it. I got ellie to lick it and pippin to as well, although he was much more difficult and doesn't like the marrow. The bones still look and feel really sharp...maybe I crushed them too much? I'm worried they'll swallow a piece whole and hurt themselves. Still trying to work on the whole paranoia thing going on over bones...but they are still really worrying me.
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Post by kpaz on Apr 17, 2012 8:24:38 GMT -5
I put a drop of ferretone on each piece last John and most of it was gone this morning. Maybe the scuffing helped. Here is their breakfast
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Post by katt on Apr 17, 2012 10:51:26 GMT -5
If they ate those that is great! Those are pretty decent sized chunks, bigger than I thought. So that's one big step forward. Good job! As for the bones you really don't have to worry!!!! Raw bones do not splinter like cooked bones do, they break cleanly. When they bite it, the marrow and bone helps scrape their teeth clean (just like it would in nature -- they don't spit out the bones of their prey in the wild ). Then the stomach acids wear down the edges into a smooth, rounded surface. This creates a natural scrub for the intestines, helping to massage the intestines and stimulate blood flow and digestion, scrub the inside layers to help with essentially the exfoliation of the mucousal lining. It also helps firm up poops and pass hairballs. Bone is not only OK, it's amazingly good for them. So deep breath - they are fine! If it helps any, I regularly hear of incidences of choking, intestinal problems, and cuts in the mouth and gums from kibble, and very rarely do any of the above happen with bone.
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Post by kpaz on Apr 17, 2012 11:17:58 GMT -5
Last John? O.o I mean last night lol, silly phone. They were crunching down on them as I left for school, so that's good. Pippin looks wild, shaking his head viciously and flinging marrow all over the wall
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