NEVER. AGAIN.

[juliet]

OK, so, after asking about pans to cook up Finlayfood in, I thought "come on, get over yourself, the pressure cooker has had meat cooked in it before" (it used to belong to my parents).

So I defrosted the bones[0], gave one raw to Fin, and chucked the rest in the pan to stew for 3 hrs.

Turns out that whilst I can handle Finlay tackling a nice raw bone whilst lying on the (linoleum, washable) floor next to me, I cannot really handle 3 HOURS of SMELLY HORRIBLE bones stewing on the stove. Ew ew ew ew. I am starting to feel a little unwell. Plus then you have to dispose of them (hopefully in Marna's bokashi compost) whereas if you just give him them raw, then he disposes of them in his stomach. WHICH IS MUCH TIDIER, being as how it is *inside* of Finlay & thus pleasingly invisible.

(It was a smallish bone this time, but still. Crunch crunch crunch industriously for half an hr, then CRUNCH CRUNCH and a funny gulping sound, and no more bone. I was kind of impressed.)

So. This time, I have a big pan of rice, lentils, carrot, & marrow (well, we weren't going to eat the damn marrow) in bone stock. Next time, he can have the bones neat, and the rice & lentils will be veggie.

ew ew ew ew ew. there are still bones in the sink, cooling off. EW.

[0] free from the traceable-meat organic butcher at Borough Market.

Comments

[laughingrat]

Ah yes, the trouble with pet carnivores. Well, you're definitely doing right by him by giving him healthy whole foods!

[bootpunk.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Our dogs were vegetarian (but no doubt with added animal protein to their feed) for the last few years I spent at my folks'. We did give them the very occasional bone to chew on. But by and large they got by (and very well indeed) on their pseudo-vege diet.

[adjectivegail]

Am doing this on phone so appols for brevity but please reassure me that giving him bones is okay?! I basically killed family dog with one, about a year ago when it splintered in her stomach. would hate you to have to go through similar. xxxxx