Ok, so after asking my Grampa to get a quote for a mincer I decided to read up a little further on raw food. I have since discovered that raw feeders are more against feeding minced as they want to encourage their dog to chew their meat and chew their bones themselves to eliminate gum disease etc.
My problem with this is the following:
1) My dogs eat inside, from a bowl.
2) If I do feed bones outside, they get dragged inside, all over the house.
3) I could train them to eat in certain areas only but I honestly don't know how to go about this and we are moving in April so this may confuse the dogs again.
4) There are 3 dogs in my household, if I don't keep them all separated it could cause problems and training 3 dogs simultaneously to do the same thing is difficult. Not impossible but difficult. This is because while keeping one dog in a certain area the other might come to see what he/she has and said dog will get up to get away from said other curious dogs.
5) MY DOGS ARE NOT CRATE TRAINED!! I currently don't have the money to buy crates the size of my dogs, neither do I have the space inside my house to put the crate. When I move house I may have more space, but I still don't have the amount of money to get 3 large crates for my Rotties.
My question is, if I feed my dogs minced meat and bone to avoid mess but feed them cow hooves every day for them to chew on will it take care of their teeth in the same way chewing the actual bone would??
My problem with this is the following:
1) My dogs eat inside, from a bowl.
2) If I do feed bones outside, they get dragged inside, all over the house.
3) I could train them to eat in certain areas only but I honestly don't know how to go about this and we are moving in April so this may confuse the dogs again.
4) There are 3 dogs in my household, if I don't keep them all separated it could cause problems and training 3 dogs simultaneously to do the same thing is difficult. Not impossible but difficult. This is because while keeping one dog in a certain area the other might come to see what he/she has and said dog will get up to get away from said other curious dogs.
5) MY DOGS ARE NOT CRATE TRAINED!! I currently don't have the money to buy crates the size of my dogs, neither do I have the space inside my house to put the crate. When I move house I may have more space, but I still don't have the amount of money to get 3 large crates for my Rotties.
My question is, if I feed my dogs minced meat and bone to avoid mess but feed them cow hooves every day for them to chew on will it take care of their teeth in the same way chewing the actual bone would??