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How do you know if you are feeding your dog the right amount of food?

Here’s an easy test…

About two to three weeks into your dog’s new diet, put your hands on your dog’s rib cage and note what you feel when you press lightly. If you have a hard time finding the ribs, your dog is too fat. If you can visually see the ribs (no need to feel), your dog is too thin.

Make necessary adjustments to the amount of food you give your dog as well as the kind of food. If your dog is too thin, for example, you might want to increase the amount of fattier meats you feed her.

Some Feeding Tips

You do not need to feed your dog this exact combination of meals per day – one RMB meal and the other a veggie meal. It’s good to work with what you have. If you have meats or bones that should be eaten soon, then by all means give your dog all RMB meals one day, and catch up on the veggie meals the next.

Some followers of the BARF dog diet will create a calendar and simply jot on the calendar when they plan to feed certain meals. You can mix the RMBs with veggie meals and add an offal (organ) meal now and then. You can also add in a fish meal once a week or so. There are no hard and fast rules when following the BARF diet plan.

The idea behind feeding a healthy BARF diet is to provide a healthy diet over time. That is, there may be times when your dog is eating more meat and fewer veggies or the reverse. But if over a period of time your dog is eating a balanced and healthy diet, then she’s doing fine.

If your dog is too thin, you can always add more RMB or offal meals and offer fewer of the veggie meals. If your dog is too heavy, cut down on the number of RMB meals and substitute more veggie meals (which might be harder than it sounds, depending on your dog’s general attitude toward vegetables).

Do not think that you need to add grains to your dog’s diet. Grains are generally not considered essential food for dogs and they don’t need carbohydrates to have what’s considered a healthy diet. In addition, grains are considered one of the major causes of allergies in dogs and also one of the main causes of gas. Going without then, seems like a decent idea.

Remember that there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to feeding your dog a BARF diet. You might feed her all meats for a few days if that’s what you have on hand. Other days, (before you go the butcher, for example) you might focus more on veggie and egg or yogurt meals. Use your best judgment and pay enough attention to ensure that your dog has enough to eat and is getting the proper nutrients.

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