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Are there any butcher shops in Westman that prepare raw diet foods? I've been to the pet stores in town, and it's very expensive. I'd like to support a local business if possible.

I feed my 3year old dog raw deer meat beef makes her scratch lots she sure likes the venison wild meat is far better then domestic raised animals although my doesnt scratch with pork or duck but most foods in pet stores are fillers and my dog really scratches so got watch i feed before cooked with bone intact so she can eat bone marrow out the deer bone

Your dog is probably scratching because the diet you are feeding does not have the proper balance of different types of oil (fat) nutrients to maintain skin health.  
You need the correct ratio of Omega 3, Omega 6, DPH, DHA and others to get a balanced diet. Venison does not provide the required O3, O6 contribution to the diet.  
Commercial pet food standards mandate the levels and ratios of these components.  
While you think it is OK for your dog to scratch it can lead to small abrasions, infection and immense discomfort for your pet.  
Would you want to go around scratchng all day long, never comfortable.

I think you missed the op's message, it is the beef that makes the dog itch/scratch not the venison.

As far as I know, none of the butchers prepare a "diet", but can and will order in cases of your proteins etc. I used to order from Tendercut.  
 
You will need to do the research to make sure you're feeding the correct ratios of the different nutrients/fats etc and construct the diet from there. I found it extremely difficult, and frankly, nerve-wracking as I was always concerned I wasn't giving him the right food balance. At least with commercially prepared diets, you know it's going to be the right ratios.

so I been feed dog that and gotten better but I said if I giver beef  
she scratches and the store bought stuff is worse

not the op's message but the first reply, from Brian.

https://www.drpitcairn.com/books/dr-pitcairns-complete-guide/  
 
We used to feed three dogs the Pitcairns diet. Easily homemade and so much cheaper than buying any kind of pet food.

Oops yes I misread the post but the answer still applies. Single source diets like all beef or all venison do not provide the correct amounts and rations of essential oils to ensure a good diet. If you read pet food labels they often contiain a mix, Potential oils/fat are canola, sunflower, poulty fat, mixed fish oil or salmon oil, flax oil, soya oil or safflower. Higher end commercial foods use a blend to bring all the different components into line.  
 
There is a common misconception that meat is the first and critical part of a canine diet. There is a critical need for vegetable based ingredients and associated vitamins and minerals not provided by straight beefor venison or pork etc.  
 
In the wild, if a wolf ( everyones favorite wild animal to compare to their 4 pound dog) kills a deer guess what the first thing is they eat. Nope not the hind end meat! They tear open the carcase and open the stomach and intestines and eat the guts and partially fermented/digested intestinal fill. This is how they get their B vitamins and other nutrients they need to survive. While they are carnivores, they do eat the vegatable based gut contents to get what an all meat diet cannot provide.  
 
So unless you are feeding a dog vitamin/trace mineral mix and possibly an additional fat or oil along with the meat, their diet will be deficient in certain nutritients.

That brings up an interesting question!!  
 
Dogs are not obligate carnivores (unlike cats), but from what I understand they're facultative carnivores (vs. omnivore, which again is a bit different) and lack a few key enzymes from us, specifically amylase which helps break down carbohydrates.  
 
It occurs to me that they probably eat the intestines and their partially digested contents because that's the only way they can obtain the full nutrition from that plant matter. So what about commercial dog food, or even raw diets for that matter?  
 
Kibble would have the carbohydrates partially broken down by manufacturing process, but raw diets, by design, would not. Nor would home made raw diets. I wonder if the animal would even be able to extract adequate nutrition from non-meat food in those diets?  
 
Something to wonder about!!

The manufacturing process for kibbles does breakdown the carbs through tremendous heat and pressure in the extrusion process. Canned pet foods with a mix of meat and grains etc get cooked during the retort process.  
 
Many of the less processed foods sold in pet stores use cooked ingredients ( potatoes) . Also some grains can be processsed to increase the opportunuity for digestion ( oat groats, oatmeal).  
 
A not pleasant way to see how well your pet digests raw mixed food would be to examine the gifts they leave for you in your yard to see if there is undigested material. If it comes out the rear end in recognizable form, It isn't digested