hello raw meat buyers.

satchel here – the owner of Moe’s Meats in Portland, Oregon. Moe’s Meats sells raw meat meat meat for your dog and cat. if you haven’t stopped by to pick up an order yet, what are you waiting for? i mean, i offer the best raw meat deals in Portland. but for that, i’ll allow my lovely manager of sales, meat woman, to speak to that.

Hi Raw Meat Buyers,

Meat Woman here. Yes, Satchel is correct – Moe’s Meats does offer the best prices on raw, natural meat for your pet because we don’t have very much overhead (aside from my hige salary of course). We are an LLC operating out of our home. And that means we can offer great prices for our raw meat buyers.

How you order:
Call (503.245.2853) or email (moe@moesmeats.com) your order and tell us the time and day you would like to pick up your order. We’ll pack up your raw meat order and deliver it to your car. We’ll also accept cash or check from your car. So no shopping time required. It’s the equivalent of fast food for your dogs, except it’s actually good for them.

YUM!
Raw meat in a dog bowl.

The key to transitioning your dog to the raw diet is to start slow. Their first raw meal should be 3/4 what they normally eat and 1/4 raw meat. You can slowly work your way from there. If you do notice they have a belly ache, pick up some digestive enzymes at your grocery store and give them a pill with each meal until the bottle is finished. By that time they should be fine with eating raw.

Yellow bile?

That means your dog’s belly is totally empty and needs to be fed more. This was happening about once a week in the morning to Maji. We finally realized that she needed a little extra food for dinner and everything would be ok.

Clear foam?
Did your pup drink too much water too fast? Your pup also probably has an empty belly and needs a little more food. 

How to help?
Unsweet applesause or Slippery Elm Powder can help an upset belly. Probiotics and digestive enzymes are good as well. If you’re concerned, take your pup to your vet.

Satchel asked me to blog about what raw meaty bits are included in the raw meat diet. Before I list everything below, let me first shout out to Moe for lending today’s blog space – you’re the best Moe!!!

Raw Meaty Bones
Chicken, turkey, duck, and pork necks, chicken feet, chicken backs and wings, rabbit

Ground Raw Meat
Chicken, turkey, duck, bison, venison, and pretty much any animal that most Americans would eat. These always contain ground bone and you have the option to include organ meats (liver, kidney, heart, gizzard).

Crushed Veggies
All fruits and veggies onions, grapes, raisins, corn cobs…. Try to get organic whenever possible.

Rec Bones
Knuckle bones, knee bones and mysterious joints of animals. These are like TV for your dog.

Wholesome Table Scarps – in small quantity
Garlic, oatmeal, eggs with shell, rice, toast crusts, grains (great source of carbohydrates), non-yeast bread, couscous. And remember, organic is best – no nasty chemicals.

-Courtney

We’ve had a bunch of people ask if their dog or cat can get bugs from eating raw meat. An animal can get sick from eating just about anything, but it’s very rare for the pet to get sick because of raw meat in their diet.

As long as you buy your raw meat from a reputable source and you the pet owner handle the raw meat as you would meat you would set on your dinner table by keeping it frozen until you need it, letting it thaw in a cool and shady part of the house, put it in the fridge when it is still cool, don’t re-freeze after it is completely thawed, you shouldn’t run into any issues.

What experiences have you had with parasites in raw meat?

-Courtney

Is it gross to have to thaw out the meat, break in up into meals, handle it, smell it, then clean it up?

Sometimes it can be. I’m a vegetarian and not used to handling meat at all. I was definitely nervous about feeding raw meat to my pups, but I was also committed to their good health, so I pushed through my fears.

I didn’t have anyone telling me how to do this, so the first time I tried to thaw a few weeks supply of meat, then make them into patties and re-freeze. I read that that was the best way to feed your pups – in patty form, and had no idea the mess I was getting into.

The walls were splattered with raw meat, my yellow rubber gloves were a mess and I thought I was going to die. It was bad.

After that experience I realized that all I needed to do was pull out a chub or bone pack (one or two meals worth), toss it into the utility sink and cut the raw meat out of it’s package when it was mostly thawed. It would then be fine to put in the fridge (bottom shelf with plastic bag over the dog bowl) until feeding time. Limited mess and minimal handling of the raw meat. (I’m still trying to reckon why someone said that patties were the way to go).

So is it gross? Tripe can be smelly and chicken has the most blood. Bones are the cleanest and turkey makes minimal mess.

For us, as long as we keep the silverware, yellow gloves of happiness (that’s what Moe calls them) and towels out of our kitchen and in lthe aundry room, there is minimal grossness to feeding your dog or cat raw meat.

Tell me your grossest raw meat story? Moe would love to hear it.

-Courtney

Beautiful day to you from Portland. Satchel has asked that I write about the equipment you will need to start feeding your pet raw meat.

First, the freezer. Any freezer with ample room will do. Because we have 2 dogs (95lbs & 55lbs) that eat quite a bit, we bought a separate raw meat for dogs freezer that sits in our laundry room. It’s one of those 3 foot tall, front loading models that works perfectly well. It can fit a month supply of tubes (chubs), raw meaty bones, turkey necks, rabbits, pre-made frozen veggies and left-over veggies from our fridge that are waiting to be processed for the pups.

Like I said, we keep this in our laundry room, which is also where we prepare their meals. I always use rubber gloves when handling raw meat (I’m a veggie and don’t like the idea of touching raw meat). Satchel and Maji also have their own designated set of silverware that we use to cut their tubes of raw meat open with and stir their veggies.

Last, but not least, is their very own personal sponge and soap set to wash out their bowls and supplies.

Easy! That, my friends, is all you need to begin feeding your dog or cat raw meat. Freezer space, rubber gloves (optional), specific silverware (again, optional) and their own sponge (recommended).

Happy Feeding on the Raw Meat Diet! I’d love to hear if anyone out there has other supply suggestions they use when feeding their dog or cat raw meat. Do share!!!

Courtney

Hi. My name is Courtney and I work for Moe’s Meats. Satchel has handed over today’s blog so I can talk about my decision to feed raw meat.

I’ve raised dogs all my life feeding them kibble twice a day. I never thought anything of it until my own diet began to change. I started looking at the food I was eating and began incorporating organic, whole and raw foods into every meal.

When Dave and I were waiting for our new puppy to arrive we started researching diet. We couldn’t get over the thought of feeding Satchel something that is so overly processed, dry and the furthest thing from natural.

As I researched the subject I found lots of info supporting both sides. I talked to Satchel’s breeders (http://www.aegisridgebacks.com/home) who strongly encouraged the raw diet, especially since Satchel was being weened on raw meat.

Being a vegetarian, I was a little put off at the thought of handling raw meat and had no idea what to expect, but when I sat with myself I knew what to do. There was no way I was going to be able to feed my little puppy something I would never want fed to me. I just couldn’t live with myself now that I had this expanded understanding around the raw meat diet option.

hi. my name is satchel. aka Moe, founder and proprietor of Moe’s Meats (http://www.moesmeats.com/). as you can imagine, i am no ordinary dog. on the contrary, i’m Satchel, Rhodesian Ridgeback and card carrying member of the Ridgeback Mauraders, class of 2005. i assume you are, like, checking out my site, and, in so doing, you have, you know, found my blog. you are, like, a very fortunate human.

so, i started, you know, Moe’s Meats, as a way to get humans off the kibble. well, not humans, but to get humans to get their dogs off the kibble. kibble kills. haven’t you heard? cats too – they should eat on the raw, like, all the time. and even though, like, i don’t, you know, particularly like cats, i believe they deserve to eat well and fatten up.

beyond, you know, a recap of my wandering Ridgeback thoughts, i’ll also throw in some favorite recipes, tips, treats and links for, you know, your educational delight.

la’ate