Does anyone know of a butcher in North Canberra selling good quality pet mince?
I tried the Dickson butcher, but for some reason neither my dog nor my cat would touch their pet mince, and they are not particularly fussy.
Does anyone know of a butcher in North Canberra selling good quality pet mince?
I tried the Dickson butcher, but for some reason neither my dog nor my cat would touch their pet mince, and they are not particularly fussy.
Yeah. Got to Andy’s. Great pet mince but definitely recommend them for their meat, first class, not the cheapest in town, but good meat, and great friendly service.
We got a bag of good stuff on Sunday from one of the butchers in Belco fresh food market.
I am not deliberately bumping this post, but just reporting on my “research” on this.
Today I checked out Belco markets. The Asian chicken shop sells chicken pet mince for $2.80 for 2 kilos, but it’s only available from Wed arvo. And yes, at that price, maybe they do put cat in it. Still, I’ll go back to get some later this week.
Only one of the butchers there had red meat pet mince. The one at the end – forget what it’s called. $3 a kilo, but the boy there was a bit vague about what was in it and mentioned breadcrumbs and kidney (which my dog hates) amongst other things. Sounded like it was mainly offal actually…
And the chicken mince at the “pet store in that loop street opposite Camping world” is $3 a kilo, but is frozen.
Finding it hard to get anywhere lately, but I did buy some pet mince from the Lyneham butcher. I asked what’s in it and apparently it is heart, liver and off-cuts, which is perfect. But it does cost $6 a kilo, which is a tad pricey for essentially a waste product. So I will check out some others too when I finally get round to it.
fabforty said :
I believe it’s cooked chicken bones that you don’t give them.
I thought you shouldn’t feed dogs chicken bones. Has that changed now ?
I use human consumption Kangaroo Mince with cooked rice, mixed vegetables and sardines – My dogs love it – They have some dry food a few times a week and bones weekly.
Reason why I knew he was bitten was the snake was so big and he went in after him straight away I saved his life.
Speaking of dogs my bull dog cross and a mate where up in the brindies walking mainly looking at little streams. And I was across a big log that had fallen over the valley and I was standing on it looking down at the big ferns and saw a large a large copper head snake going under a big fern. And a few sec later my dog went under the fern. We raced down to the car and drove to Canberra with Bill in the back seat and as I got to the vet he was foaming at the mouth and paralysed in the back feet. I had to carry him in the vet and he was heavy. I laid him down on the floor and he saw a cat there and raced after it dragging his back legs haha it was funny to watch he didnt care about his snake bite. Vet gave him anti venom cost me a heap to lol but he lived. He was actually bitten about 3 different times he seemed to have a good resistance to it.
You should give them some chicken wings too. The bones are great for keeping their teeth nice and clean.
jesse said :
CB43DW said :
shauno said :
jesse said :
Give him bones to
I like what MsCheeky said. We feed our 2 yr old pup on Proplan mixed with a little cooked lean mince. I buy lean mince, cook it in water, fridge overnight to set (and then get rid of) the fat – amazed at the fat, even on lean mince – and freeze small containers. His breed has a tendency to be overweight, but he also gets fruit, veg, egg yolks and chicken necks as a treat. He’s not fat, has great teeth. A happy pup:-)
and yes, ms cheeky, my girl gets mainly dried food, high in protein, etc… with the raw meat an extra source of minerals (hearts are excellent!) and teeth health (wings). she also gets a marrow bone to gnaw on every so often, and a whole egg she enjoys cracking, or a can of sardines with brekky two or three times a week… chivalry is not dead; it just got gender non-specific 🙂
I use dog biscuits because they really are formulated to have all the various substances dogs need… currently using the stuff with that Bondi Vet chappie on it, but might try Supercoat after what MsCheeky had to say. I also make up wet stuff from chicken legs… simmer them with the ends snipped off. I get the juice to freeze as stock, dog gets the meat and the bone ends, compost gets the bones. I simmer the meat/bone ends with lentils, zucchini, celery, carrot, spuds, beans, peas, and at the end mix in some cooked rice and bacon skin (from smoking my own bacon) and freeze it in baggies, and mix in a few spoonfuls into the dog biscuits.
The resulting stock is brilliant, it turns to jelly in the fridge. Dog loves the food and especially the bone-ends. And the dog biscuits ensure he’s getting all the correct things. Absence of horrible dog farts is good too.
I can vouch for Kangaroo meat I had a Rhodesian Ridgeback and it was fed on roo meat for the first 12 months and it was a great dog really large and healthy and massive stamina.
What MsCheeky said.
We feed our two 18 month olds on supercoat (as recommended by our vet) with some leftover dinner scraps (rice/veges/potato) or raw egg mixed in occasionally and they are in better than excellent condition.
A chicken wing or neck a few times a week as a treat in the morning and you can’t go wrong IMO.
MsCheeky said :
Oh I agree on not just feeding meat. Which is why I do use a ready-made supplement to add to my dog’s meat. Has all the vitamins and minerals and stuff in it.
And I do still feed dry food on the side too. They try to avoid it because they know dinner is going to be way yummier though. But it’s there if they’re really hungry.
Thanks for the heads-up on Supercoat.