If you feed a raw meat diet, your dog will eat about 2-3% of his ideal weight per day. An adult female weighs around 100 to 140 pounds, and a male weighs about 30-50 pounds more. So if you have a 120-pound female, you'll feed 12-18 pounds of meat per meal, twice a day. Because raw meat is what canines eat naturally, your dog's stool will be smaller and firmer than if you feed kibble, because there is no filler that passes through undigested.
Feed fish, poultry, red meat, eggs and organ meat (especially liver). Dogs do not need any fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts or dairy. In a natural state, without human intervention, they would never seek out or consume any of these things (except eating grass to ease stomach discomfort).
If you feed a commercial dog food, you may wish to supplement that with raw meat and meaty bones (raw only, never cooked), especially during rapid puppy growth phases. Great Danes are susceptible to Pano, a painful condition during growth spurts. Puppies on a raw diet grow more steadily and they don't suffer from this condition. The high amounts of calcium in commercial food can contribute to bone problems, especially in large dogs.
