I have a quick question that I'm pretty sure I know the answer to but I just wanted to verify before I skip out on feeding my dog an awesome snack.  Is it ok to feed my husky fresh (live), uncleaned trout straight out of clean mountain fed streams?  I just recently moved to Utah and have been doing quite a bit of fishing and I didn't want to leave him out if I don't have too.  He is on the high prairie taste of the wild food right now and very *occasionally* gets a scrap of raw meat.

Like I said, I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no, but better to know than to just skip it altogether.

It should be fine, after all it would be part of their normal diet had they not been domesticated, be sure you are doing at least annual worming if you are feeding that raw though.

You need to freeze any Salmonidae (this includes trout) for at least 24 hours in a chest freezer or 1 week in a standard refrigerator freezer to avoid salmon poisoning. Also, you risk giving him cannon butt because his stomach is not prepared for raw fish. I once gave a kibble fed dog a couple of little smelt and it gave her cannon butt for days! I felt so bad.

Mine get fresh fish occasionally with no problem.

Don't feed it right away. You never know what was in the water source. I'd freeze it at least 2 weeks.

This reminds me of the look Shaqua gave my sister's boyfriend when he caught this huge bass...




She wanted it so bad.... ha ha...