Freight Train Raw

11/07/2025

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11/01/2025

We're going as ourselves this year 🎃👻🍭 Happy Halloween!

10/09/2025

Let’s see your doggies!!

10/07/2025

When transitioning from kibble to raw you will want to take it as slow as your dog allows.

If your dog isn’t tolerating its new raw diet well, be patient.

We often see recommended a 7 day transition schedule. Some dogs also do well fasting for 24hrs and then starting the new diet straight away.

But science shows it takes up to 4 week for the microbiome to fully adjust to the new diet. Your dog may be experiencing flatulence, reflux or burping, inconsistent stools and bloating for longer than the first 7 days of the new food being fed. The microbiome can be supported during this time with supplemental probitoics or probiotc foods. Some dogs may require a higher level of carbohydrates in theit meal than what a typical raw diet usually suggests, or a cooked diet. In some cases of severe IBD, faecal microbial transplant may be needed.

There isn’t any research to suggest that your dog’s digestive enzymes take time to adjust to raw after being fed highly processed dry or canned food for years. But from personal experience, these dogs do transition better when digestive enzymes are added and the pancreas is supported. There are also TCM animal herbal formulas like Adoptrex which are designed to help pancreatic function during diet transitional periods and chronic pancreatitis.

Stomach acid of dogs is typically a pH of 1-3. Previous diet may have an impact on stomach pH if iron, zinc, B12, B1 and chloride have been deficient. Most complete and balanced processed dry foods will experience a degradation of B vitamins once the bag is opened and exposed to oxygen, light and humidity. The synthetic iron and zinc added in pet food has lower bioavailability than that derived naturally through food sources. Lack of absorption may contribute to deficiency, and may impact arctic breeds or growing large breed puppies more heavily due to their higher requirements for zinc. Chloride levels are rarely a concern in dry food as many processed foods have salt added for preservation and flavour, but can be lacking in home made diets.

As a nutritionist, I would love to say that your dog’s anatomy, physiology and biochemistry will allow it to transition instantly to raw foods regardless of what diet it was on before. A dog’s body is biologically designed to eat raw, unprocessed animal products and small portions of plant matter from foraging or digestive contents. However, years of being fed highly processed cereals, overcooked animal byproducts and low bioavailability synthetic nutrients impacts their microbiome and from my experience can also interfere with enzymatic adjustment to a new diet and potentially even stomach acidity if deficiency has been present.

09/22/2025

09/22/2025

You’re gonna wanna pick up one of these before you start feeding raw! These containers hold one 15 lb block for easy thawing. Found at Walmart.com or Home Depot.com

09/22/2025

Why do we keep the fur in the rabbit grind? Well it works well to clean out the digestive tract. But here is a longer list of reasons to feed fur.

09/21/2025

We just got home from picking up 80-10-10 beef blocks. We also have ground up whole prey rabbit including fur. PM to schedule your pick up time!!
Freight Train Raw

09/20/2025

We’re just leaving our meat pick up heading to Chicago for our first drop off. All you gotta do is send us a message and we can be on our way to you with the freshest frozen raw 80-10-10 beef for your pets!!! Feed them right!! Feed them raw!!! Freight Train Raw

08/05/2025

Everybody talks about raw dogs, but nobody talks about raw fed cats. Cats are strictly carnivores, which means they only need meat. 🥩 Get your cat on a raw diet today. Feed them right! Fed the raw!