soundandfury
September 19th, 2008, 03:57 PM
Hello everyone!
I need to find a butcher in Atlanta, but after calling a few I cannot seem to find any that have organs or chicken backs/necks and that type of thing. You know, raw pet food :)
So if anyone knows of a friendly butcher in or around Atlanta (I'm willing to travel far if I have to) would you please share their information? My kitty and other future carnivores would appreciate any and all help!
Now since I'm new here, let me introduce myself. I've had animals my whole life and I consider myself to be both an animal and Nature lover. I recently lost my beloved golden retriever mix of 14 years. Currently I have two beautiful ball pythons, Squiggles and Bertrand, and one kitty, Bebe, that my boyfriend and I adopted in Feb of this year. I am new to raw feeding...for cats and dogs! Of course I was an easy convert to raw even after many, many years of feeding "high grade" kibble to my beloved Sandy and other dogs, because I've always fed my snakes a species appropriate diet and it just seemed logical!
I started seeking help for Bebe very soon after we adopted her. She never refused food and she had very high resource defensiveness. She would constantly gorge herself and then throw up/have the runs later even though we had her on the most expensive food we could find. She constantly scratched and sneezed and had runny eyes because of allergies and even though we were certain that she was not a year old, she had nasty looking teeth. I told a coworker my issues and she suggested feeding carnivorous fuzzy pets a prey diet--I have never looked back.
Bebe is now amazingly healthy. I'm not sure that I've ever seen a more sleek and beautiful coat! She has not thrown up once since we changed her to a prey diet, her teeth made a 180° turn around to pure white, she has no allergies and she only had a bathroom accident when she jumped up on the table and drank a bunch of cereal milk (she cannot do milk/cheese at all). I can't believe the difference in her.
So now that I am mostly over losing Sandy, I am thinking of adopting a GSD (or maybe even getting a puppy, who knows) because I have wanted one my whole life, and I will be feeding her/him a prey diet as well. There is only one problem--GSD's get BIG and I will need to find a cheaper, more reliable source for large RMB's, as the Publix can be pricey even for my small kitty and even for sale items. So help on finding a butcher is most appreciated.
Thanks and I am happy to now be an official member of the group and not just a "lurker." :)
I need to find a butcher in Atlanta, but after calling a few I cannot seem to find any that have organs or chicken backs/necks and that type of thing. You know, raw pet food :)
So if anyone knows of a friendly butcher in or around Atlanta (I'm willing to travel far if I have to) would you please share their information? My kitty and other future carnivores would appreciate any and all help!
Now since I'm new here, let me introduce myself. I've had animals my whole life and I consider myself to be both an animal and Nature lover. I recently lost my beloved golden retriever mix of 14 years. Currently I have two beautiful ball pythons, Squiggles and Bertrand, and one kitty, Bebe, that my boyfriend and I adopted in Feb of this year. I am new to raw feeding...for cats and dogs! Of course I was an easy convert to raw even after many, many years of feeding "high grade" kibble to my beloved Sandy and other dogs, because I've always fed my snakes a species appropriate diet and it just seemed logical!
I started seeking help for Bebe very soon after we adopted her. She never refused food and she had very high resource defensiveness. She would constantly gorge herself and then throw up/have the runs later even though we had her on the most expensive food we could find. She constantly scratched and sneezed and had runny eyes because of allergies and even though we were certain that she was not a year old, she had nasty looking teeth. I told a coworker my issues and she suggested feeding carnivorous fuzzy pets a prey diet--I have never looked back.
Bebe is now amazingly healthy. I'm not sure that I've ever seen a more sleek and beautiful coat! She has not thrown up once since we changed her to a prey diet, her teeth made a 180° turn around to pure white, she has no allergies and she only had a bathroom accident when she jumped up on the table and drank a bunch of cereal milk (she cannot do milk/cheese at all). I can't believe the difference in her.
So now that I am mostly over losing Sandy, I am thinking of adopting a GSD (or maybe even getting a puppy, who knows) because I have wanted one my whole life, and I will be feeding her/him a prey diet as well. There is only one problem--GSD's get BIG and I will need to find a cheaper, more reliable source for large RMB's, as the Publix can be pricey even for my small kitty and even for sale items. So help on finding a butcher is most appreciated.
Thanks and I am happy to now be an official member of the group and not just a "lurker." :)