Dawn and Osu playing carrot catch

I'm sure most of you are aware of our dietary changes in the past 9 months (which is going great).  It turns out, there is also a similar paleo diet for dogs, called the BARF diet (Bones and Raw Food).  We've switched Osu over to this new diet slowly over the past month or so, and he's loved it.  He has also responded very well to the change, having more energy, behaving better than ever, and losing weight.  Every morning, he waits patiently, yet eagerly, for one of us to head downstairs to feed him his 1/4lb of raw beef and whatever vegetables we have lying around.  At night, he does the same thing.  For the most part, his excitement mainly comes from the anticipation of meat.  He can't get enough of it.  Like me as a child, the vegetables always come last for Osu, and sometimes, he ignores certain ones altogether.  One day, he might love carrots and zucchini, the next, he ignores one or both of them completely.

Because of this, and because he needs his veggies, we've come up with a game to get Osu to eat more veggies when all he wants is meat.  Basically, it's fetch with carrots (or another vegetable), except that he eats the tossed veggie instead of bringing it back.  Of course, he loves this game.  It's great for supplementing his diet with more vitamins and minerals, and it gets him exercise, too!  Contrary to popular belief, not all dogs are good at searching things out.  The husky in Osu loves to run.  However, both the German Sheppard and Husky in him haven't given him a good nose or even that great of eyesight - at least when it comes to finding veggies in the yard.  It's quite comical watching him run around like crazy looking for a tiny piece of orange carrot in green surroundings.

Today we changed the game up a bit when Dawn got home from work.  The light was nice for pictures and it had been a couple of years since we last took pictures of Osu catching food in the air.  We'll have to try this again on another day as it was quite fun!  Click on the pictures to enlarge them.

       

     

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