dog roll

plural dog rolls

1. New ZealandProcessed meat shaped into a large sausage and used for dog food.

   There are different types of dog rolls: some are mostly chopped organ meats; others are chopped muscle meats. Some breeders do not like the dog rolls, so they purchase fresh "pet meat" for their dogs.

   1992, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette - Volume 109, page 117

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   Along with a high-quality dry dog food, I feed 1⁄2 cup (20%) of a high-quality dog roll made from 100% fresh ingredients containing NO by-products, or nasty preservatives. Butch Black Label dog roll uses only fresh ingredients and contains beef that the dry dog food does not have due to importing laws in New Zealand.

   2008, Sy Guth, How to Make a Puppy!, →ISBN

   The food that best suits a given dog or cat with megaesophagus may be a liquid gruel, meat or dog roll chunks, or even kibble (Davenport, Remillard et al. 2010; van Geffen, Saunders et al. 2006; Guilford and Strombeck 1996).

   2011, Andrea J. Fascetti, Sean J. Delaney, Applied Veterinary Clinical Nutrition, →ISBN, page 192

   Changing a dog from a diet of mainly tinned or cooked meat, processed 'dog roll' or dried dog food, to a natural diet of primarily raw meat and raw bones, maybe also with fasting and random feeding, should be carried out over a three to four week period.

   2016, Dr. Clare Middle, Real Food for Dogs & Cats, →ISBN