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Post by pastelsummer on Sept 10, 2010 16:33:16 GMT -5
I made satin balls for my dog, my version has 2 lbs of hamburger 2 cans of tuna 2 cans of chicken 1 can of tuna about 1/4 cup peanut butter and aprox. 2 cups baby oatmeal cereal. WELLLLLL I gave soem to henry just a couple licks and he LOVED it. I know it cannot be a reg treat because of the ingredients in the fish and chicken but would it be possible to do it with just hamburger and eggs?
ETA: to rewrite to take out the funky spacing my phone randomly adds
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Post by sherrylynne on Sept 10, 2010 19:29:46 GMT -5
Certainly you can do some with just meat and eggs for treats! But I hate to say it- he's likely crazy about the peanut butter. Which has a lot of sugar, so it's a real no-no.
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Post by Heather on Sept 10, 2010 21:33:04 GMT -5
Why are you feeding satin balls? I would be getting rid of the oatmeal...actually I was just looking at your ingredients again. Canned tuna isn't good, nor is the chicken both are cooked and very high in sodium (even the light stuff)....truthfully the peanut butter if organic is probably the most harmless of all the ingredients. Satin balls are usually used on show dogs that can't keep weight on because they're so stressed about being shown that they don't eat properly. They're not something that show people even feed consistently and certainly not something that I would get into the habit of feeding.
If you want to switch a dog to raw it's so simple...give them a whole chicken back or even some roast beef or something like that. Forget the satin balls. If you want to use hamburg, you can use the egg but you've got no calcium in your mix. You can use egg shell 1/2 tsp for every cup of meat. Just like your ferrets your dog is going to need all the components that you would feed them
ciao
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Post by pastelsummer on Sept 10, 2010 21:38:51 GMT -5
i am using the satin balls because my dog had worms and got sick on top of it and is close to fifty pounds under weight. We got her health back to where it is in top form but we have to still get her weight up. It is not to switch to raw with her dh says no on that i barely have him ready to let henry have raw treats. Lol we are getting there slowly but we are.
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Post by Heather on Sept 10, 2010 21:59:05 GMT -5
Ahhhh, do take care feeding satin balls though. It would be much better for her to gain her weight back slowly than unhealthily. I know about underweight dogs....my boy was one of those when I switched him. I was showing him at the time, that's why I know all about satin balls  I never used it, my guy wouldn't eat them  but he loved his raw when I finally got him on raw and all the weight that he never put on came on and he looked great. He lived a good long time too for a large breed dog...13. Good luck ciao |
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