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Feeding chunks of raw meat, bones and organs is the preferred method of providing adult healthy dingoes with their raw diet. There’s many reasons for this, let’s look at a few:
✅Happy Dingoes. Happy hormones are released by the brain when carnivores chomp on large chunks of meat and bone. This can help calm anxious and hyperactive behaviour.
✅Pearly Whites. Dental disease currently affects more than 70% of domestic dogs before the age of 2. It’s not as common in raw-fed canids who eat large chunks of meat and appropriate, digestible bones. These animals typically maintain healthy teeth and gums thanks to their diets.
✅Enrichment. Eating every meal out of a bowl doesn't provide any mental stimulation. Large chunks of raw food are one of the easiest options to enrich mealtimes.
✅Nutrition. Mincing meat damages some amino acids, especially tryptophan which helps regulate behaviour (tryptophan deficiency is linked with aggressive and anxious behaviour). Feeding intact muscle meats ensures your dingo is getting the amino acids required for optimal health.
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🥩🍖Choosing chunks and larger raw food items:
👉”Chunks” simply refers to large pieces of intact meat that has not been ground or minced.
👉”Digestible Bones” should be largely hollow options from small prey if they’re making up the dietary bone component in the diet.
🔹Examples: Poultry, Rabbit, brisket, ribs excepting beef, tail.
👉”Recreational bones” are given as chews, for enrichment & teeth cleaning. These are large, dense bones that aren’t fully consumed and should be discarded once the meat has been eaten. 🔹Examples: beef necks & tails, large kangaroo tails, sternum and spines from large animals.
🐇”Whole Prey”= Refers to feeding entire small prey animals as a meal, with feathers/fur, heads, feet etc all intact.
❌It is NOT the practice of feeding live animals to our pets. All whole prey animals are humanely dispatche
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