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This is the place to share your best homemade dog food and treat recipes with each other! Remember to use caution if your pet has allergies and to make any diet changes gradually so that your dog's stomach can adjust to the new foods you are introducing.

  
Benne

Bad dog gone- good!		 
 
Barked: Tue Jun 26, '07 3:05pm PST 
Does anyone know the proper way to calculate how much home prepared food to feed? Is there a standard? Such as a person who is trying to maintain or loose weight should have x amount of fat, calories etc.?
I just want to be sure I am feeding my pup ok, the vet says what I am doing is fine but I want to know how you guys figure out amounts and what you have learned.
Thanks in advance.
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Josie - CGC

California Girl		 
 
Barked: Tue Jun 26, '07 6:07pm PST 
Head to Nature's Variety's website. Use their neat feeding guidelines calculator to determine yours for a kibble, say, Chicken.

(HINT: Be very modest about your Activity Level. I would say I'm Active, but in reality I only eat as much as a dog with Moderate Activity to maintain my figure.)

Then look up their Chicken formula's Calories per cup. (Calories: 391 per cup) Then do some math to figure out how many calories you need per day based on how many cups they say you should eat.

Viola.
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Brigid

ITS ALL MINE		 
 
Barked: Tue Jun 26, '07 7:21pm PST 
Every recipe book lists a different ratio. BOL. We feed more than one style (free fed kibble rotation, home cooked, and once in a while raw) So we give about 2 cups a day of home cooked. one cup at a time. We are 70 pounds each.
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