Bulldogs World

My first question is if anyone noticed their Bully drinking less once they switched them to raw. Stella and Dolly (my lab) drink almost nothing throughout the day. I used to have to refill the water bowl several times a day. Now yes, it is much cooler... barely getting to 75 lately as opposed to the 105 it was last month. But I also thought that it's probably natural because the raw is hydrated whereas the dog food is dried or dehydrated and so therefor there's plenty of water in the raw already. I feed Stella and Dolly the Natures Variety twice a day and then I give them some other sort of non processed raw at least during lunch, if not more than once as a snack.

Today they both drank less than 3 cups of water total. Yesterday it was about the same. I did notice them drinking a little more when I was using the plastic bowl but yesterday I switched to glass. I haven't had a chance to get to the pet store so I am just using a glass baking dish. The water level moved about an inch. - Maybe their water was partially evaporating before? I do keep my house at 75 though so that doesn't seam too likely, although it's definitely evaporating from my fish tank but that water is heated too.

So... besides the fact that the raw is hydrated... what's the chance that maybe the kibble was possibly dehydrating them and so the raw is like a double (good) whammy.... - No added salt to dehydrate them and it's already got natural moisture.

What do you think?

Question #2

I bought Oxtail the other day. I noticed a lot of people here had mentioned it. I'd never heard of it before and I looked over the packaging and it just looked like cut up beef so, not giving much thought to what it was (thinking that surely it wasn't actually the tail of an Ox) I brought it home with me. Well today I opened the package and found that it's got some sort of bone in it... and it's in chokeable size pieces. :( So I pulled out the 2 largest ones I could find and let the dogs take their prize/lunch outside. - I'm worried about choking though. What do you all do as far as Oxtail is concerned? - My lab litterally engulfs her Natures Variety (8oz) in one bite. She opens her mouth and somehow swollows that thing that's about 3-4 inches in diameter and 3-4 inches tall in one swollow. So I'm worried that she won't be patient enough with something with small bones like that.