Is it ok for my chihuahua to eat raw hamburger meat?
Raw hamburger meat alone will not be nutritionally balanced. If you want to feed a completel raw diet, there are some things you need to know beforehand: A raw diet consists purely of 80% meat, 10% bone, and 10% organs. The idea is to feed a species appropriate diet, one that wolves eat in the wild. I personally don’t feed vegetables because dogs are carnivores, but if you do just make sure it doesn’t make up more than 10% of the diet. You feed RAW meat, RAW organs, and RAW bone. The rule of thumb is to feed 2-3% of your dog’s body weight, depending on his/her activity level. You get your meat from the butcher, the grocery store, etc. Asian markets tend to have a lot of good items. Raw is as expensive as you make it. We generally try to stay under $2/lb, and for some people it ends up being cheaper than kibble. Half of the organ allotment (5%) should be liver, and the other half should be another organ (pancreas, thymus, spleen, kidney). Heart and lung don’t count as organ because they
