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I now follow the prey-model diet. Ideally, it would be whole prey but that isn't possible. Therefore, I construct a kind of 'franken-prey'. Over time I try to balance his diet so that he has as wide a variety of different meats as possible. The basic guidelines that I follow are 10% raw MEATY bone, 10% organ meat and 80% muscle meat (interestingly, heart falls into both organ and muscle meat). So, maybe one day I'd give him a turkey leg. That would be quite a boney meal so the next day he might have some beef heart and pork chops. He also gets fish whenever I can get hold of it. I try not to give too much poultry as it's not such a natural source of meat when you think about the diet of wolves, but it certainly isn't harmful and he does have it quite often. He has whole eggs (shell and all) sometimes too; they make a great quick meal if you're in a hurry. I'm not big on eating meat and in the future hope to become a vegetarian, and only eat eggs from my own hens, but I still plan on feeding a raw, prey model diet to my dog.
The prey-model diet works out at about the same price as feeding James Wellbeloved, and he digests much more of it (although James Wellbeloved is a good commercial kibble if that's the way you prefer to feed). I choose to balance it over time, rather than balancing every meal, to give him some variety and now his stools are firm when they first come out, and within a few days have turned white and crumbled into the ground. Some say that they make good fertiliser!
As for the sickness, I didn’t experience it with Scamp and was lucky enough to be able to switch from kibble cold turkey (excuse the pun!). However, I sometimes look after a Dogue De Bordeaux and I managed to convince his owner to switch the pup to raw. He tried cold turkey but the poor thing just brought it all back up again, so he ended up having to put in tiny bits of chicken with the kibble and gradually build it up. Now he’s doing great and he doesn’t fart so much, which is always a good thing
It’s generally recommended to start with raw chicken, as you did, because it’s quite a bland meat, and after they’re eating that without any adverse-effects for a week or two, introduce a new protein food and do the same thing, until you have a variety of foods to give them. Not everyone likes feeding it, but I have no regrets whatsoever and would highly recommend it!
) I tried a new food called Nature's menu and she's now 35kg, the lowest weight she's been since I've had her! (she was about 42kg at one point 
Once the bag of Nutro is finished I may try her back on raw - she loved it and her coat was brilliant on it - her poos were beautifully formed 
they DO exist 
