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BPO Food Forum => Food Discussion & Information => : GreatPyr February 28, 2008, 03:55:24 AM
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Does anyone know how much Salmon for a dog is to much if at all?
I give Bear and Buddy Salmon oil on there food and I found some salmon strips and salmon wrapped bones I was thinking of getting but wasnt sure if to much salmon was not good.
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I can't imagine you could actually give your dog too much salmon. The only thing I would caution against is too much of the actual oil, because it can cause really loose stools.
However, salmon strips and bones should be fine. I give Cabeza canned salmon quite a bit, along with the oil capsules every night. He seems to be just fine, and his coat is lovely.
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just be aware of salmon poisoning...no real worry though... it comes from wild salmon...too much mercury and another illness that is going on in the fish...ALTHOUG H: before you believe this... i saw it at petsmart..wher e they down feeding any "human" food
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Yeah, salmon poisoning is from the actual parasites or whatever that live in there. Only a problem if you're doing like, fresh raw fish. If we're just talking canned or store-bought salmon, you are fine.
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so according to the article its raw fish?
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I believe it is just raw..
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Thanks,I try and switch flavor of treats for my guys and salmon was next on the list but wasnt sure about to much.
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I wouldn't recommend this - but thought I would share it. My husband is eskimo from a village in northwestern Alaska. While we lived there Salmon was the basic staple of the sled dogs (including my mother-in-laws huskey/malamute). Frozen was prefered along with frozen caribou - all uncooked - just frozen. I can only speak to the fact that Lady is 14 and still tearing up the tundra on a diet of wild alaskan salmon and caribou. I should also say that my husband's own native diet consisted mainly of frozen raw fish and meat (before he met me - from the east coast and afraid of anything RAW) and he is still running about! I guess you might consider it frozen sushi.
We use a bit of Salmon oil for the huskey but the mals get some nasty poop from the oil. Strange. We don't have access to a storage place for all the frozen fish we would need for our crew where we are now (suburbia in AK) - I am sure if we did we would be using a salmon diet - instead we use Science Diet (hahaha ::)). Oh well. Maybe the elders had the right idea -- keep it simple.
Just though I would share!
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Thanks for sharing that is some very intersting info,Your hubby is an eskimo,thats neat ;D