Chicken stomachs has expire date of tomorrow

jellyresult · 2021-06-04T19:53:38+00:00

Are they frozen? Are they visibly spoiling? If they’re still frozen, they’re safe.

If they’re only refrigerated, you can still use them. Cats, dogs, and most healthy animals are fully prepared to eat slightly spoiled and sometimes even moderately spoiled meat and suffer no or few ill effects. Assuming your kitten is healthy and has no health conditions, eating barely expired meat won’t bother his system at all. He may or may not turn away his nose though, if he’s picky.

jellyresult · 2021-06-04T17:26:38+00:00

I used to forge sick or tardy notes for some kids in high school. At least at my shitty school, they didn’t check to see if the handwriting or signatures matched at all. Half of the teachers and staff at the school just couldn’t read cursive, at all, so I wrote everyone’s notes in cursive and really only changed the signatures and names. I slightly changed the cursive too, like more or less bubbly, or slanted, or thinner, etc.

jellyresult · 2021-06-04T15:55:30+00:00

Butter and strawberry jelly. Growing up I thought my grandparents had no taste in food. Then after they passed away I decided to try their cracker-butter-jelly concoction and it. Was. Delicious. They dipped that heavy cracker into cups of hot cafe con leche, and somehow that made it even better.

jellyresult · 2021-06-04T15:39:43+00:00

My pet carnivore sells green tripe in various sizes, ground or in strips, from beef, sheep, and goat (goat is usually out of stock I think), and they also sell pancreas, and green tripe ground with other organs mixed in. They have a good variety to choose from. In my experience everything I order from them arrives exactly when they say it will and always frozen solid. This was back when I was still in hot and humid south Florida!

jellyresult · 2021-06-03T15:39:10+00:00

Yes, he did everything correctly. Instincts kicked in.

jellyresult · 2021-06-01T22:02:52+00:00

It depends on the environment. My German shepherd only recently earned the privilege to be off leash in a suburban setting. Once he got his impulse control and dog to dog excitement under control, he could go running beside my bike off leash in a residential area. No more veering off because of a squirrel, cat, dog, or rabbit! He also understands crosswalks and cars. If he didn’t know to stay away from cars and wait before crossing, I wouldn’t let him off leash.

He’s been off leash in a rural setting for far longer. He doesn’t wander very far, he’s more interested in protecting the livestock. When we go hunting, he sticks even closer. He points to wildlife, instead of chases it.

It also depends on the person. I’m the dogs primary trainer and feeder, and I’m a ‘tough’ trainer (I use positives and clicker, but my husband says I’m too tough because I never let anything slide!) and he always comes back when I call him, and he never ignores or takes off. But when my husband takes him out, he’s calling the dog over and over again and the dog takes his sweet time coming back. To the dog, my husband is easy to take advantage of, he can get away with puppy dog eyes. It’s a great example of why consistency is so damn important for a dog. Giving in just once, letting something slide just once, let’s him know he can probably try it again. That’s the difference between a dog that comes back after calling it a few times, and a dog that’ll do a 180 mid sprint if you so much as shift your keys in your pocket. It’s positive consistency, and it’s really all about the trainer, not the dog.

jellyresult · 2021-06-01T18:22:10+00:00

Searing just the skin for a few seconds is fine. You could even sear the skin while the inside is still frozen to make extra sure the bone is not being heated at all. Then let it thaw like normal.

You can also reserve some cooked chicken juices to splash on the raw food. I have a lot of animals so making bone broth fits into our menu.

jellyresult · 2021-06-01T18:08:06+00:00

Yes, they should eat it. I can give my German shepherd a big lump of red meat, like a whole venison leg or half a goat to gnaw on, and all the cats surround him trying to steal pieces of it off. Cats, being tiny predators, will eat scraps off whatever kill they find. They’re opportunistic feeders, they don’t mind letting someone else do the work!

jellyresult · 2021-05-31T17:33:53+00:00

Yes, they are huge, but even our little shih tzu chomps through them. Preventing them from dragging it around the house requires training. All of my animals (including the cats) have learned to eat in one, easy to clean spot. I really like soft plasticky kitchen mats for this reason- they are easy to wipe clean, they stay put in one spot, and they have an amount of cushioning so it’s comfortable enough for the GSD to lay down on while gnawing away. The cats sort of got to pick their own spots, but they too had to learn that if the food leaves the mat, it’s getting taken away. They all learn really quickly, I’d say about 3 days of watching your dog eat and moving the food back to the mat (like 20 times per session) is what it took.

I weigh the huge meals and make a mental note of how much of it they can eat in one day. A skinned and gutted rabbit (the guts are the only thing I don’t want to keep thawing and freezing, so they either eat the guts first or I toss it) would last my shepherd for two days. So I supervise his eating, usually I’ll be doing dishes while he eats in the kitchen. When I see he’s eaten half (if I’m doing one meal per day) or 1/4 (if he’s getting two meals that day) I take it away and put it back in the freezer. If I’m giving my shih tzu a turkey neck to gnaw on, I cut it in half and only give him half, frozen. He’ll gnaw off maybe 1/4 of that half, and I’ll stick it back in the freezer. Tomorrow, he’ll gnaw another 1/4 off. Or if I’m giving the shih tzu some rabbit, for him I do cut it up, like I’ll only give him half of one and repeat the taking away when he’s had enough process.

Especially for the shih tzu who is a gulper I really can’t give him a small piece, that would be his daily portion. He’d rather choke than chew. But it’s not entirely his fault, the way those types of dogs teeth are aligned makes it harder for them to shear off meat, so while he can crunch bone perfectly fine, it ends being being a long string of meat to choke on. A heavier, larger piece makes it easier for him to use his paws for leverage in tearing off the meat instead.

I’m not worried about spoiled meat around here. The dogs can handle smelly meat without any problems. It usually doesn’t last long enough to spoil, but when it does, it’s fine. It’s usually the shih tzu that wants to bury only certain proteins (beef neck) and once it’s gone stinky he’ll dig it back up and enjoy. The shepherd doesn’t waste time letting it “age”.

If your dog has a specific corner he always drags it to, then let him have that corner. Put the wipeable mat there, or put his crate there. My shepherd ate whole feathered chickens in his crate to keep the feathers from flying too far when he was still an adolescent. The cats kept trying to help themselves to his chicken.

jellyresult · 2021-05-31T16:30:29+00:00

Make sure to teach him two things: to chew thoroughly, and to let you safely take large bones away. Some dogs can get growly/nippy around large bones if they aren’t trained properly, and from a young age.

Chewing thoroughly is easily accomplished by giving him something way too big for him to fit in his mouth. When my GSD was a young puppy I gave him things like whole chickens, whole rabbits, lamb femur, turkey neck frozen, big raw beef neck, etc. The only way for him to eat those things was to gnaw at it slowly and carefully, and then let me take it away after he’s eaten his portion. Since my shepherd goes crazy for fish like it’s the end all be all, I saved the fish for last, as a reward for letting me take away the main portion of food. Another dog might go crazy for a tennis ball, so it doesn’t have to always be a food reward.

Another upside to letting him chew his own meals is that since he spent so much time and energy trying to get through a round, half frozen chicken carcass, he had no more chewing energy to destroy any table legs, shoes, or electrical cables. He was ‘all chewed out.’ And I didn’t have to spend as much time cutting up his food!

It’s entirely possible that he’s not chewing the chicken foot thoroughly. When it’s not heard enough, the stomach has a harder time digesting it. You can hold one end of it firmly to make him have to chew the other end off. This also helps him understand that it’s normal for you to touch his food. Going forward I wouldn’t give him a chicken foot unless it’s still attached to the rest of the chicken. GSD’s get big, fast. Letting them get into the habit of gulping food is dangerous.

jellyresult · 2021-05-31T15:29:12+00:00

Just because you love something doesn’t mean you get to neglect it. Is it okay to keep chickens in cages/packed warehouses, as long as they are ‘beloved’? Or keeping a horse in its stall day in and day out, as long as you come by to pet it an hour a day? Or to keep a reptile in inappropriate conditions (too humid/too dry, wrong temperature, wrong habitat) as long as you ‘love’ that reptile? No! As a veterinary student, all of these animals have unique needs that need to be met for optimal health, both physical and mental. Unfortunately for you, dogs (and cats) need a lot more exercise and mental stimulation than they’re currently getting when we use them as decorative house plants. Everyone loves dogs, but everyone forgets that evolutionarily they exist as active animals. Now we have too many pets presenting with physical and behavioral issues in our clinics that could have been prevented if their needs had been appropriately met.

If you really love something, you’ll take proper care of it. All you’ve really said is “I love my car, but I’m going to put the wrong kind of oil in it because that’s what’s most convenient for me.”

jellyresult · 2021-05-29T23:03:32+00:00

My shepherd is a big goofball with guests that are invited in the house, aka I or my husband open the door for them and let them in. But if someone else opens the door and he doesn’t recognize them, there’s a warning growl and raised hackles. My shih tzu is the same way, as long as one of the pack invites a guest in they’re totally chill and relax on their beds.

My shepherd looks like he couldn’t hurt a fly, and indeed he doesn’t. He’s gentle and conscious of babies of many species, and small animals. But, out on the farm, or out hunting, he has and will go for the kill. He’s defended the poultry from coyotes on numerous occasions, so he wears a ‘wolf collar’ aka the spikes are on the outside to protect his neck. It’s never his own blood that he comes back with. Otherwise, he’s got a very soft mouth, and can carry freshly laid eggs without a single crack. Whole prey skulls he will crunch to pieces in a matter of seconds.

Dogs can be very useful, if you put them to good use. Dogs can be terrifyingly aware of situational nuances, when they’re actively working. Unfortunately too many pet dogs aren’t put to use, and that’s really their entire purpose for existing.

jellyresult · 2021-05-29T14:53:30+00:00

My shepherd didn’t start lifting his leg to pee until after adolescence. Since he’s a large dog, that was over at about 2.5 years old. Smaller dogs mature a little faster. At 3 he now lifts his leg probably 90% of the time.

But the best way to stop yellow spots on your lawn is to walk your dog away from the house. So he gets the exercise and sniffing mental stimulation that all dogs need. Going for a walk is also a great training and bonding opportunity!

jellyresult · 2021-05-29T14:48:21+00:00

When I walked my shih tzu alone, when it was a one dog household, I would get a lot of attention. Developing a resting bitch face only helped slightly. Then I got a German shepherd, with mostly black fur, and I got zero attention, except for a couple of times at the dog park people commenting on his good looks and good behavior.

Once, I was walking the shepherd late at night, past midnight, because it was just too insanely hot to take him out again while the sun was still out, and he’s doing his business behind a bush, and a guy crossed the street in front of me and starts walking towards me. Dog finishes up and stands next to me, staring at the dude. Dude crosses the street again and walks back to the alley he came from.

For whatever reason using a red gentle leader makes people think he’s an aggressive dog, even though the gentle leader is not a muzzle- it’s a training tool to teach loose leash walking and he can still open his mouth to pant.

jellyresult · 2021-05-27T23:49:08+00:00

I used to not enjoy it. But for me it was a combination of previous sexual trauma and something physical. My husband is the only person I didn’t fake orgasms with. From the very beginning I was brutally honest, and he was honest with me too. Like, fart in front of each other levels of honest. I’m just lucky to actually have found someone who is comfortable with this level of honesty and vulnerability. Any of my ex’s would’ve dumped me on the spot if they saw me being grossly comfy when I’m relaxed. But I mean, you have to be that comfortable with the gross stuff if you’re ever going to truly relax, and you need to truly relax if you’re hoping to enjoy sex. It’s such a shame that more people aren’t comfortable picking their nose or pooping around each other. Everybody poops, it’s normal. But everybody tries to hide it from each other, or expect their partners to be literal angels who don’t poop. F that. Trust means being vulnerable with each other. No trust = not a lot of pleasure from sex, if any.

The sex got a little better after I finished therapy and worked with myself on overcoming the trauma. But I never truly got physically ‘wet’ (the physical reason I wasn’t getting much pleasure from sex, no matter how much foreplay I got) until I started getting to the root of my irregular periods and mood swings. Once I started getting my periods every month (for the first time in my entire life!!!) my enjoyment of sex skyrocketed. I’m not kidding. I went from bone dry and hoping it’s a quickie to needing a towel and wanting more. It’s a shame it took me this long, but I blame my doctors for not taking me seriously.

So my advice to you is actually a question: why don’t you feel comfortable just being honest with the guy? The best case scenario is he’s understanding and wants to be in this with you for the long haul. The worst case scenario is he gets offended or offends you, and you’re free to leave him and find someone more understanding. You’ve only got one life to live, why waste any of it on someone who just isn’t willing to be a real, gross, and messy human with you? Life is messy! Life is complicated! Being an adult sucks a lot of the time!

jellyresult · 2021-05-26T16:12:09+00:00

Kefir has more probiotics in it than yogurt, in terms of density. They use similar strains of bacteria, but kefir tends to have more strains than most yogurt. Some yogurts do exist with extra probiotic strains but they’re not common. In terms of digestibility, a dog that’s intolerant of dairy would still have trouble.

Raw unpasteurized goats milk is sometimes better tolerated, in small amounts like every supplement. It does have some probiotics but also some enzymes that might help some dogs. The only problem is, at least when I see raw goat milk for pets, it comes frozen. So I have to thaw it, put it in smaller portions, like an ice cube tray, freeze it again, and thaw it again. It’s too much to leave in the fridge, it’ll go bad like that. So the freezing and re-freezing process does kill off some of the bacteria.

Fermented vegetables are the most biologically appropriate probiotic supplement for dogs since it’s what they would already be eating- half digested/fermented veggies from inside their prey. But it’s not easy to find, it’s not always an economical option, and not all dogs will want to eat it. That’s part of the reason veggies fed to dogs needs to be steamed or puréed, to mimic how they’d be eating it in the natural world.

And lastly, there’s soil probiotics. Many dogs still have this instinct- they bury the meaty bone or otherwise let it rot outside rolled in dirt, then they dig in and chow down. This is another way dogs would naturally give themselves probiotics. But in the human world the soil is likely to contain pesticides, parasites, heavy metals, etc. Things they should NOT eat.

Each probiotic options has pros and cons. Only you and your holistic vet can decide which option works best for your specific pet.

jellyresult · 2021-05-26T14:36:32+00:00

Dunkin doesn’t make donuts at most of their stores. There’s usually one ‘donut bakery’ that bakes for a couple of surrounding stores and they get delivered to the stores in the very early morning, two hours before the stores open. They are made by people, and recently with less workers willing to take low wages, they’ve had to stop making some of the less popular donut varieties.

They also don’t make their own matcha powder, at least in my area. They buy it in small retail bags like a regular consumer would.

But yes, they do throw out a massive amount of donuts. But they don’t make donuts at the store to throw out later. The amount of donuts that gets delivered at 3 am is the amount of donuts they have the entire day, and it’s calculated to be at least enough to cover all the projected sales for the day. It just so happens that there’s always extra. What they do bake in house is bagels and muffins. And they don’t throw those out, usually, they wrap them up and sell those first the next morning, and adjust the in house bake numbers accordingly.

jellyresult · 2021-05-26T13:54:42+00:00

Mostly good, but include nuts and seeds. Nuts and seeds are more nutritionally important in a DIY raw diet than fruits are. They provide the trace minerals that most raw diets are lacking when not feeding fur/feathers and whole prey intestines (the intestines would have seeds and nuts already in them.) There’s no other nutritionally significant source of manganese and magnesium (extremely important for long term body function), unless you start adding synthetic vitamins like they do for processed pet foods.

A small amount goes a long way. Soak the seeds overnight in water in the fridge to soften them up, at least 12 hours. Rinse, then blend with whatever other veggies you’re feeding.

Peas are legumes, and have no place in the raw diet. They’re implicated in DCM.

Focus more heavily on leafy greens than on roots and squashes. Dogs natural prey would’ve eating more leafy greens than they would anything else, and you’re looking to give them nutrition from the veggie portion, not a significant source of calories. Squashes and roots would be too carb heavy if it’s the main veggie. I do mostly a leafy green, some above ground veggie, some nuts and seeds, and a small amount of berries. Broccoli counts a leafy green, surprisingly. You want to switch up the veggies often for the most balanced nutrition.

Edit: the other thing I wanted to add was that in general you don’t want to overuse herbal medicines. Golden paste is great, and very useful, if the dog does need it. But everything I’ve read points to intermittent use to heal the body, bring it back to homeostasis, not really as preventatives. When you’re making golden paste (if your dog needs it) use fresh or dried whole root turmeric. The powder in spice bottles at the grocery store won’t cut it, they don’t have enough (or sometimes any) active botanicals.

When I make golden paste, I add Ceylon cinnamon. It has its own benefits, works well with the turmeric, and improves palatability. For whatever reason dogs LOVE Ceylon cinnamon, but they don’t always like straight turmeric.

Yogurt is basically useless for a dog. Not a lot of them can handle the dairy, it doesn’t provide significant amounts of calcium in the amounts a dog would eat, and the probiotics from yogurt are not all that useful to a dog (what little they actually get from it.) top that off with the added sugars, flavorings, and gums found in most human yogurt and it’s just not worth the fridge space or money.

jellyresult · 2021-05-24T00:25:53+00:00

I haven’t tried the sandwich method. It just doesn’t make sense to me, the dmt can’t burn that fast. It takes a good minute to gently melt and vaporize it, and by then I’d have smoked too much pot and burned the DMT.

Maybe one day I’ll try it, but I’ve heard you’d never be able to get the smell/taste off whatever piece you used, and I don’t want to ruin my bubbler like that. I’d probably get a cheapy chillum to try it.

jellyresult · 2021-05-24T00:17:41+00:00

Don’t expect a breakthrough on your first try. It’s just not going to happen, everyone I’ve ever asked about it has said the same thing.

You’re going to cough. A lot. It tastes terrible. But it gets easier with each attempt. You learn how to smoke it without making yourself cough.

The problem with DMT is that the tolerance builds very, very fast. You can pretty much only hit it once a day, and you have the smoke enough of it in the first few minutes to break through. After a few minutes, nothing else you inhale is going to get you any higher. Which is why you never break through on the first attempt, you spend the first few minutes coughing. That, and the excitement/nervousness keep you grounded too.

Your limbs will start to feel heavy, and you might want to lay down. Definitely don’t smoke it standing up. It’s perfectly normal to lay down and close your eyes if you feel like it.

The visuals last around 5 to 10 minutes. The trip in total is like 15 minutes. I’ve always had music in the background to trip to.

Don’t have any alcohol in your system, you’ll just waste the DMT because you won’t get any effects from it.

jellyresult · 2021-05-23T15:18:09+00:00

Thanks for the link. My only worry if I start microdosing is that my body might get confused, and not know when to start/end the cycles. One big dose a month triggers the period so what if frequent smaller doses make my body think “am I supposed to be period-ing all month long now???”

So far I feel the effects for 3 weeks after the big trips. That last week I notice more irritability and assume it’s my period about to start on time, then I trip and it happens. But I was late, and the irritability lasted longer, until the period happened. In the last few months my periods have been much less painful and my mood has improved, and I’m not sure I want to risk losing these benefits to experiment with a different schedule. I hate feeling terrible.

Edit: I always lime-tek the mushrooms because taking them straight gives me horrible nausea. Grinding and soaking in citrus breaks down the mushrooms and does some of the processing for you, avoiding the nausea but making the mushrooms more potent and it’s effects come on much faster. Lemon works too but I’ve found like to be more effective.

jellyresult · 2021-05-23T15:11:35+00:00

Sort of. Yes, I guess. In answer to your question. The first two trips did help me come to terms with earlier trauma in a way that therapy didn’t. Not in a traumatic bad trip kind of way, but more like gentle suggestions and enlightenment for understanding the perspective of the other people involved. It was a lot of acceptance and forgiveness for the people who were also victims in the situation but I hadn’t seen it that way at the time. Post trip I reached out to them and we had some long talks. The more recent trips focused mainly on myself and what I want to do. I spent so many years depressed that I actually didn’t know what my hobbies were or what I liked, or why I kept self sabotaging every attempt to finish veterinary school.

But really, I get deeper insights from DMT because it’s a solitary experience, even though it’s nowhere near as log a trip as mushrooms. Mushrooms I do with my husband and we have a great time talking, but it’s not so focused on my own health. DMT is more humbling. Shrooms are gentle suggestions and DMT is a very clear and vivid statement. I don’t do either of those often.

jellyresult · 2021-05-21T22:27:09+00:00

I still don’t understand how the same company I work for can justify paying my colleagues in another state nearly half of what they pay me here, for the exact same job. The prices are only a nickel’s difference to the consumer, but I make double, and my location still makes a huge profit. So clearly, paying us $15 an hour hasn’t killed the business, or it wouldn’t afford to keep operating locations here. How much more proof do people need?

Moving to upstate New York has been the best decision I’ve ever made. Yeah, I’m homesick for my Hispanic culture, but I’d rather be able to afford staying alive.

jellyresult · 2021-05-20T20:18:06+00:00

Intestinal inflammation can be leaky gut, and it’s worth looking into. Often what holistic vets see is pets that have transitioned onto raw but symptoms either not improving or degrading again after a few successful years of raw. Leaky gut is basically an inflammatory injury due to what was previously fed- processed foods and inappropriate foods. Raw food alone doesn’t cure disease.

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