Sunday 3 June 2012

Decisions,decisions,decisions

This week was fairly busy,finished school on the Wednesday and spent the rest of the day studying in the library with my friend,spent Thursday at home with Oscar and on many of the dog forums i am on(your dog,dogsey,pet forums) and i did the slightest bit of study. And then Friday was really a waste of a day,me and my friend went in to the library only to find that the study center was closed,so we spent the whole day sauntering around the boring town. Typical,when we want to study we cant!
But something good did come out of spending the whole day in town on Friday.We went up to Lidl and Aldi,and i could look at prices of meat. What a strange thing for a 15 year old school girl to be doing,isn't it? Well it had a purpose,and after a look on the Aldi website yesterday i have had a break through!

I have always wanted to put Oscar onto a Raw diet,but it never suited us,we either didn't have the money or it wasn't convenient enough. So that's why i spent almost 6 months researching dog food, and as an alternative to raw i chose a grain free food with high meat content( The Applaws dry food) . But i did still intent on one day moving Oscar over to Raw.
Well,after researching the raw diet a good bit(last year and while i was doing dog food research) and looking at prices online from English suppliers and in local supermarkets,i have finally found an opportunity to feed raw.
If i get all the meat from Aldi and scraps from the butchers,it will only cost 15-20euro a month to feed a full raw diet! Thats cheaper than feeding dry food! And thats exactly what i wanted to find out!

Only problem is that i will have to prepare all meals by myself,because it wont come straight from a raw food supplier so it will take a while to get a balanced diet. And freezer space may be an issue but i am sure my nanny has an old freezer we could have,where to put it though is another problem. I also need to get a book,but i have no money right now so there is another problem.

So i am going to try a semi raw diet over summer,then once i get prices sorted and if oscar does well and my parents are ok with it(which they will be) i might be switching to raw.
But i need to make the decision,take the leap or not to take the leap?
Certainly the pros of this diet are never ending and Oscar will love having raw everyday but will it work out?

I really hope so! But only time will tell.

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