Need something soft, but still high-quality

[Pomp]

One of my dogs just had a tooth removed due to fracture, and now he is on a soft-food only diet for the next 2 weeks while healing. I usually gave him a frozen chicken wing or drumstick for dinner, but I have to lay off the hard stuff for a little while.

Any alternatives? I'd still like to give him something with high protein. Past couple nights, I've been giving him plain fat-free greek yogurt frozen up in a Kong...but I'd like to give the brotha some meat. I was thinking of buying some turkey from a deli and giving him some of that, wedged up in a kong.

What do people think?

[PoodleMommy]

can you give him some canned food?

thats what I did with mine when he had his tooth removed.

If you need high protein, try a puppy food.

[Izzy's Valkyrie]

You could debone the chicken and let it thaw before giving it to him at night. Or you could just grab a few cans of a grain free food like Wellness Core or Evo RM just for these two weeks. Do you have a meat grinder or a blender? You could always grind meat and make it into a somewhat mushy consistency.

[xpaeanx]

I'd do canned or ground meat. If you don't have a meat grinder, and buy from the store, just remember to add ground up egg shells(coffee grinder does an awesome job on egg shells).

[Pomp]

I guess I could grab some canned food. I feed EVO Reduced Fat Dry, but I'm not sure they have a canned option.

I like the blender idea. I could blend up some meat and then freeze it in a kong. It would take him a while to lick it all out. Any downside to giving him deli meat tonight though?

Any suggestions for meat to freeze in a kong?

edit: I see the suggestion for ground meat. Why egg shells though? To add some phosphorus?

[xpaeanx]

no, it's to add calcium.

If you buy ground meat from a store they don't grind in the bones, only the meat. Dogs on raw get their calcium from the bones... but if you're not feeding a meat with bones, you have to add it somehow... that's where the egg shells come in.

[Pomp]

Ah, I knew it was one of them. I remember reading that when feeding raw meat, the bones balance out phosphorus in the meat?? Something like that...something with periodic tables.

[Pomp]

I'm assuming I don't have to cook the ground meat. How many eggshells do I need to grind?

[xpaeanx]

I believe it's 1 teaspoon per 1 pound of meat

[Pomp]

Awesome, thanks.