I got 150 lbs of organs today for dog food. There was a mix of pig and cow tongues (cow tongues are very tough), hearts, livers, lungs and spleens. It was half frozen (dog enjoyed a blood slushy lol) and I cut it all into about 4x4 inch cubes. I'm happy to say that after cutting all of that it's still very sharp. Won't share leg hair cleanly anymore but more than sharp enough to slice paper very nicely. I don't know how that translates to field dressing animals but I'm confident I can dress a moose with it without having to touch it up.



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Nice real use test. Larger blade than most would use for skinning out an animal, but for quartering one up into more manageable pieces it would work.

Sorry, but you wasted beef tongues on your dog! Boil them up, slice em up with some ketchup YUM YUM..... (Oh and I like liver and onions as well)!

Cool test and pic.
But now i feel like a wuss for buying Gravy Train at Wall Mart

My dog is on a raw diet so all the meat we eat, he gets. Be that walleye, salmon, deer, elk, moose, pigs, canada geese, ducks, cows, rabbits etc. The only thing we don't share is tenderloins. We exclusively feed those to people lol.

Lucky dogs! I'd eat all of that <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Good test, now where are the tenderloins????????????????????

Very nice. Makes me think of my coming muk.

For those that feed raw, where do you feed and how to you keep things sanitary. I ocassionally give my dog raw marrow bone as a treat, but he'll just try and take it into the carpeted areas to gnaw on.

Haha! This.

I fed my Presa Canario bitch raw flesh quite often. I just put it in her bowl outside near a tree. I never had any issues with sanitation or even bugs for that matter. Just don't put too much meat for them to finish and they'll lick the bowl clean.

Nice (mean) looking dogs JJ.

Our dog is an inside dog and we also feed him raw inside. I will admit that 99% of the time I hand feed him. I just take the pieces out of the fridge and give them to him. On days where I am at my parents for example he eats them out of his bowl. When I give him a shoulder blade that still has some meat on it or ribs (raw meaty bones in general) he eats on a floor mat for cars. He has been trained to eat off of it wherever it is be that in our living room, kitchen, camping etc. He has also been trained to never let his bones leave the matt and if it does sometimes happen during vigorous gnawing most of the time he picks it up and puts it right back on the matt and if he doesn't all I have to do is point and he'll put it right back on.

It's a pretty nice system actually because he doesn't have a favorite spot to eat his treats. He eats wherever the matt is which makes traveling easy.

I do want to briefly comment on raw feeding big scary dogs. I have had ignorant people I know comment that this makes them blood thirsty and he will bite my hand off and that I'm crazy for hand feeding. This is of course absurd. I feed raw because aside from being much healthier it's also much cheaper (for me anyways as I hunt/fish, have friends that farm beef etc). I feed by hand because he knows who provides him with his food. He knows he must sit patiently without any begging to be fed. He knows he must never snap or grab at even the most delicious morsel (he is very fond of deer heart) and always be gentle when taking food. The food in his bowl is never his but always mine. I can at any time go to his bowl of beef organs mixed with venison and take it away. Stick my hand in there even if he's eating and pretty much take it out of his mouth.
He knows the bones on the matt are mine and at any time I can go over there, make him leave the bone and move away from it and pick it up, put it on the kitchen counter at eye level with him and leave it hanging over the edge and walk away. He won't touch it. Nothing that ever falls on the flood while cooking is fair game and he is never allowed to trample my better half to grab something that fell on the floor. This took alot of consistency but he knows who the food comes from, he knows what is expected of him to get some and he knows that no food, no matter where he finds it or where it is, is always mine and I can do with it as I please.

When I look at some friends of mine how their dogs are with food it makes me shake my head. They will come running when they open a bag, something falls on the floor, inhale their dry dog food, growl at you if you get to close to their bone and forget giving them a treat. They near bite your fingers off! This is a generalization and there are lots of good owners out there but I wanted none of those issues when you're talking a dog that will be 120lbs not to long from now with a big [censored] mouth on him. We also want kids in the near future and I certainly don't need a big dog snapping at a kid that found "his" bone or favorite toy.

Last spring before Rigby was born I was a the breeders house and I helped her cut up a cow and grind a bunch into hamburger to feed to the puppies she would have in April (12 rottie pups eat a lot!). When we go to her house we unloaded rubbermaid bins that had no lids on them full to the rim with fresh hamburger. She let her dogs out (sire and dam) as we were unloading and I was standing on the back of the truck going "oh oh lol". They both sniffed the container but neither would touch any food. When I was butchering our deer this fall Rigby was outside with me and while he certainly was curious he left everything alone. That was a great test and I'm sure very hard for him. Smelling a dead deer run the woods must be lots of fun as would eating the tripe and so on.
He got some good treats that day for being a good boy.

I apologize for rambling here but I am very proud of my dog for not being a pain in the [censored] to have around raw/wild meat/food in general. It also means I can sit on the couch and eat a bag of chips without the dog begging or sticking his nose where it doesn't belong.

It takes a lot to train a Dog well, but the key is definitely consistancy. You have every reason to be proud. My mother's Rat Terrier, Scrappy, is extremely well trained around me. He doesn't beg from me, nor does he climb into my bed when I'm sitting there eating. He knows better. If I point to his kennel, he goes and lays down, no questions asked, no complaints. Now, I only wish I could say the same for everyone else in the house. I don't change the rules on him, so he never gets tripped up on trying to figure out what I want. If he were my dog, he would have spent the first year of his life practically on a leash at my side at all times. I might have to consult you for some training tips when I get my dog, it sounds like you've got yours very well trained.