Raw meat for breakfast and then the other 3 meal just normal puppy kibble? Is this a good idea? He is a 8 week old Dobe. Thanks|||Sure you CAN but why not just feed raw....?|||I say NO.
I can see if I can put on here the reasons why not, but it is all to do with the ph balance in the stomach. Read this written by a very knowledgable friend of mine.
Several people have recently asked why it is best not to feed a mixer with raw or a complete as a 2nd meal. Briefly, it goes back to the difference in pH the they create, a carnivores digestive physiology is suited to an acidic environment, not the more neutral environment that is created by dry food. A dogs digestion should begin in the stomach.
It is Pepsin which is responsible for starting the digestion of protein in the stomach. Pepsin is pH dependant and does not become activated until the pH drops below 4. Complete dry diets alter the stomachs environment which directly affects the action of Pepsin.
As the environment of the stomach becomes more neutral pepsin becomes denatured and its ability to digest raw food is reduced.
A dry diet shifts the start of digestion to the small intestine rather than the stomach this places a burden on the pancreas to work harder in producing enzymes. This is why so many dogs fed dry diets end up being fed supplementary enzymes.
Dry diets introduce insoluable fibre into the dogs system. The fibre binds bile which prevents reabsorption of the bile.
When bile is lost from the system the liver must work harder to increase its rate of production in order to maintain a pool of bile. Under normal phisilogical conditions 95% of the bile would be recycled.
Hope this has helped --- I say - go raw all the way.|||Why even feed your puppy 4 meals?
We received Luther as a 13 week old puppy (GSD), and started him on raw 2 days later. He got 1 meal a day. Once he hit a year old this October, we started fasting him once a day.
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