Kangaroo dog food? Huh?

[AZjeff]

We were in a big box pet store today wandering around and I came across kangaroo based dry dog food. Never heard of it. For some reason it doesn't seem right, like people eating dog meat.

So I search and apparently (non aboriginal ) people eat kangaroo meat. So, Aussies, is 'roo good tucker or something best left for the indigenous people?

 

[benjamming]

Kangaroo is good food for humans. I can't imagine a problem for dogs.

 

[AZjeff]

Have you eaten it?

 

[Shannow]

Can buy it (will take photos when we go shopping). I like it.

Can't get my family to eat it, because they "don't like the taste" (I think it's more psychological)…

It's very lean, like venison in that regard, so you have to be careful cooking it.

It really should be more used, as they don't produce methane like cows when they digest grass, and are much more efficient at converting feed into meat.

(Our cats love it).

Silly (well stupid) fact is that if a farmer is allowed culling tags, he must tag them and leave them in the paddock...not use it to feed his dogs.

 

[hpb]

You can buy kangaroo steaks at all the supermarkets here, but I must admit, I've never tried it.

 

[CT8]

Huge rats.

 

[wdn]

I've eaten roo meat and it tasted fine. Nothing beats moose meat though, I would have moose instead of beef any day of the week.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Dog will pretty much eat anything ... kangaroo based food is probably a treat to them.

 

[John_K]

Does it come in a pouch?

 

[Shannow]

yes...photos soon.

 

[Shannow]

see...pouches

 

[Ducked]

Originally Posted by ZeeOSix
Dog will pretty much eat anything ... kangaroo based food is probably a treat to them.


I've eaten dog here. Canadian co-worker brought some in to the staff room from some church function. "Anyone want some dog stew?"

Shock-horror from the Taiwanese, mild interest from the foreigners.

It was OK but a bit fatty. Apparently it'd been a rather lazy dog (Dalmation from the skin colouring).

Creepy sequel: Walking past some of the sponsored strays on campus, the heads came up and they started to howl.

MIGHT have been coincidence but there weren't any other obvious cues.

After that I didn't much fancy eating the rest so we fed it to the dogs. They seemed to enjoy it.

 

[Ducked]

IIRC the razorback in..er...RAZORBACK ate mostly waste from a kangaroo dog food processing plant, and he did pretty well on it.

(Its sort of an inland JAWS, just when you thought it was safe to get out of the water...)

 

[Silk]

Originally Posted by Ducked

Creepy sequel: Walking past some of the sponsored strays on campus, the heads came up and they started to howl.


They eat dogs in Tonga...and possibly here. Anyone with a dog will tell you if a Pacific Islander walks past their place, the normally placid dog will go crazy.

 

[csandste]

Originally Posted by Ducked
IIRC the razorback in..er...RAZORBACK ate mostly waste from a kangaroo dog food processing plant, and he did pretty well on it.

(Its sort of an inland JAWS, just when you thought it was safe to get out of the water...)




That's tremendously horrible. Right up there with Ed Wood and Arch Hall Sr./Jr. Haven't checked but hope it's on YouTube. Gotta see the whole thing!

 

[ZeeOSix]

Do they make "Kangaroo Helper" in Oz?

 

[dlundblad]

It looks delicious.

Some people here don't seem to like deer because of the taste. In fact, many hunters I know like to water it down with either beef or pork, but I prefer the stuff straight.

 

[AZjeff]

Originally Posted by dlundblad
It looks delicious.

Some people here don't seem to like deer because of the taste. In fact, many hunters I know like to water it down with either beef or pork, but I prefer the stuff straight.


Depends on what the deer's diet was. Woods deer are usually pretty strong tasting, farmland deer milder.

 

[Ducked]

Originally Posted by AZjeff
Originally Posted by dlundblad
It looks delicious.

Some people here don't seem to like deer because of the taste. In fact, many hunters I know like to water it down with either beef or pork, but I prefer the stuff straight.


Depends on what the deer's diet was. Woods deer are usually pretty strong tasting, farmland deer milder.


Post-Chernobyl it was quite radioactive in parts of Scotland. Low mineral status on upland moors meant (a) high uptake of fallout by vegetation and (b) relatively large volumes of forage eaten by the deer (because of its low nutrient status). These combined to give relatively high radioactivity in the meat.

 

[dave1251]

Skippy tastes good. Dingos eat it when they can it should be good for Fido.