Comments on: Should You Be Feeding Your Doberman Raw Meat?

By: Ashoka samarakoon

Ashoka samarakoon — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 04:57:35 +0000

How old calcium should be given to the doberman?

By: Demis Tonin

Demis Tonin — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:53:27 +0000

Hi John ,
I like your videos and this website!
I’m a new Doberman owner( I have to wait 3 more weeks) and I want to know what is better for his health… what Dobermans puppy eat ?
Commercial food? Raw meat? Both? Vegetables?
Thanks
Demis from Denver Colorado

By: John Walter

John Walter — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 23:46:37 +0000

In reply to Martin Duke. In general, you're right that the Europeans are bigger and more muscular but I'd still say it should be more dependant on your individual dog's activity levels and muscle mass. There are some very muscular American Dobermans and some thinner Europeans so I'd say it should be based on the specific dog. Don't be afraid to start at one amount and slowly adjust to get the correct amount dialed in.

By: Martin Duke

Martin Duke — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:18:07 +0000

the amount of food servings, is it for both American and European?
Europeans are naturally bigger and muscular.

By: George Perreire

George Perreire — Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:41:59 +0000

All this talk about feeding a dobie raw uncooked meat but nothing about cooked meat cept’ kibble. I feed mine, minced beef & Lamb added with 20% organs and bone bought from a local supplier. Boiled with either broccoli, potatoes, spinach or carrots twice daily with extra water so that after cooking it’s becomes Stew.
My dobie, a European pedigree male is 14 months old and is pretty large with a lovely bodyline and superb coat. He was fed upvote button after an appropriate puppy kibble for 8 mths with 3 meals daily then to his present diet of his favourite beef/mutton stew. He’s fine and dandy and in good health. So it’s the safe diet that you feed your dobie that makes him what he grows up to be, regardles.
I’m an ardent advocate of Not feeding raw meat with blood and all in the best interest of my dobies health.
I’m sharing this as another option of clean and healthy feeding for fellow dobie lovers.
Anthony Wilding is certainly a very thoughtful and kind owner. Mia is not subjected to an unhealthy living lifestyle. Eating a diet just like her owner does. She was brought up in a civilized manner befitting her as man’s best friend and family member.

By: John Walter

John Walter — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 05:13:04 +0000

In reply to Anthony Wilding. Thank you so much for sharing Anthony! That's amazing that she lived to the age of 16. Such a great long life—you were doing something right!

By: Anthony Wilding

Anthony Wilding — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:42:13 +0000

Unlike the many dogs we have owned over more than 50 years our Doberman (Mia) liked to try every type of food.
She would regularly eat salad vegetables (especially cucumber and tomatoes), walnuts, grapes (we did not know these were forbidden), carrots and mashed potatoes were favourites as was cheese and anything else we were eating. A small bowl of warmed milk or milky tea was a weekend treat.
Anything other than regular dog food and the freshly roasted chicken which was one of two meals each day) was seen as a treat so offered only occasionally in small quantities.
We didn’t eat raw meat then or now so nor the Doberman.
Humans are told to eat a varied diet and nothing to excess it worked for Mia who (as previously reported) lived a very very long and active life and celebrated her sixteenth birthday before leaving us.