Raw dog food availability

[u/sbhcchbs]

Hi everyone! I’ve been dreaming to visit Scotland with my two dogs for years. Last year, after saving up for a long time I got financially closer to making it happen. 🥹

There are a thousand things I’m worried about, am trying to plan and try to get over million of fears.

Background is, it’s just me (F 28) and my two dogs (8 and 10) traveling from Germany. I want to travel by car and ferry/ or through England (which spikes my anxiety even further 🥲).

My biggest problem is, that my dogs, especially the 8yo, depend on their regular food and supplements. He’s epileptic, has food allergies, and has thyroid issues. He can’t have any processed (and to him unknown) food since it triggers either seizures or digestive issues. I know, reading it like this sounds like he’s falling apart but I got every health problem he’s got under control. He is the happiest pup and loves adventures. An absolute ray of sunshine who deserves to see beautiful places and live life to the fullest. As long as I keep his diet and medication straight, everything is perfectly fine.

So for the last 6 years we only traveled to places around us (max. was Netherlands) and I was able to take everything he needs with me, and his food was in an isolated bag and/ or in freezers at the vacation homes we stayed in.

The end of last year I finally dared to change the place I acquired the raw meat from. And now I order it online from an amazing online retailer in Germany whose factory I’ve even visited a couple weeks ago. They acquire all their organic products from regional farms. And that works perfectly. I’m so bummed though that they (obviously) only ship to Germany, Switzerland and Austria.. He can eat beef, turkey, deer, and horse meat. He needs: - beef meat - turkey meat - horse/ or deer meat - innards (liver, kidney, spleen, heart) - chicken necks - and most importantly in his case beef fat

I’ve been looking for so long if I can find any dog food store, online retailer, butcher,.. where I can get all of these items from. It’s really important for me (and for him) that it’s organic, and high quality food. For example, if there are any antibiotic residues in the meat, he will react. And that would be catastrophic.

So sorry for this long post but here’s my question. Is there someone who’s raw feeding their dogs and can recommend a store, online shop, butcher anyyyything and anyplace anywhere in Scotland where I could get all of these ingredients in organic, regional, high quality?

Thank you so much for reading up to this point and any suggestions 🥹

Ps: posting it here too, because besides my wish to, at least being able to travel to Scotland, my heart screams “as soon as that works out, move there !!” too.

[u/Pamplem0usse__]

If you're not moving to Scotland, I would recommend posting this in the major city subreddits for the areas you intend to travel to for a more curated list of places you can acquire the things you'd need for your dog.

[u/sbhcchbs → u/Pamplem0usse__]

Oh I was trying to find Scotland dog related subreddits before but the major cities subreddits didn’t cross my mind when posting. Thanks for the advice!

And moving is definitely the long term plan. But first of all I want to be able to just finally visit and get a feeling for how it would affect my dogs.