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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.
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Taser
Mutts Serve Too |
 | | Barked: Fri Jun 5, '09 10:10am PST | |  | |  | | Taser is once again showing signs of having troubles with his new Kibbles. Currently he's on Natural Balance LID Sweet Potatoe and Venison. So, I'm gonna bite the bullet and switch him to a home cooked diet.
I'm looking for recipes or websites with free recipes, and Taser has many allergies.
No Milk Products or Whey
No Corn
No Brewers Yeast
No Grains (wheat, barley, oatmeal, etc...)
Taser can have Rice (it's not a grain) and potatos
A lot of recipes I have seen I have to modify because they contain the above ingredients but to my understanding if I keep it basically 30% each meat, rice or potatoe, and vegetables I should do okay.
Any recipes or advice would be appreciated other than the suggestion of the raw diet. I know it's a good option but personally I just can't do it based on the ICK factor. Raw bones I am looking into because of the lack of information on drying them in the oven. See I live in an apartment and it's partially about where he can chew his raw bone with out a bug problem. He is trained not to take his cured bone off his bed. Any suggestions on this would also be helpful too.
Thanks, this is new territory for me and I want to learn as much as I can.
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Misty
Can I chase it?! |
 | | Barked: Mon Jun 15, '09 2:02pm PST | | | | | | Hi Taser! I've seen some of your more recent pots so I'm not sure if you need the information still but I'll offer you a few tips anyway.
For starters, theres a great book called the Healthy Dog Cook Book. It has some great, easy to understand information on the basics of nutrition and has a special section for dogs on special diets. Many of the recipes do call for some grains, but there are also many that only call for brown rice.
Sassy gave me the best pieces of info I have received so far: 4 parts animal protein to one part fruits/veggies and one part starch. With that you can really make a meal for Taser out of anything you want!
I hope that helped! You've probably heard it all already though lol. | | | | |
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Sassy
Princess and the- Pea |
| | Barked: Mon Jun 15, '09 5:22pm PST | | | | | | Rice IS a grain. Supposed to be the most easily digested one though. Sweet potatoes, tapioca are possible starches as well. SP is very nutritious, tapioca is empty calories. Sassy loves potato, great potassium source too.
Make it more like 50-75% meat proteins if you can afford it. Even Sassy gets 7-8 ounces of her 16-20 ounces a day in meat protein. [Egg whites, chicken, tripe, meaty treats] She gets meat to her phosphorus limit, grain to fill the calories and veggies to help with Vitamin B and A. Some organ meat will help with zinc and iron. Sassy gets a supplement for those to just bring the diet up to her needs, no more.
Don't use 70/30 ground beef. That stuff is worse than feeding bacon. All fat and little protein. Otherwise ground beef is super easy to handle. Egg is terrific, the most available and perfect protein but one a day is plenty. Whole chicken is a pain. 15 pounds roasted, boned and ground ended up being 7 pounds. I saved the drippings though. Worth it I guess, the food smells very good.
I run the recipe through Nutritiondata to make sure I am offering up a minimum of 1 gram protein per pound of dog and about 20 calories per pound of dog. Don't want to starve the poor thing! Add a calcium source, most important supplement for dogs. Any recipe claiming to be complete without added calcium is probably not a good way to go. Sassy's 7-8 ounces of protein are only 1.2 grams per pound, not much at all.
Read through the articles at dogaware and the history of dog food at B-Naturals to get a handle on what is what. | | | | |
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Taser
Mutts Serve Too |
| | Barked: Thu Jun 18, '09 2:26pm PST | | | | | | thanks sassy and others,
Taser is mostly getting solid beef and pork. I buy large roasts on sale. Round roast (beef) and Pork loin roasts and cook them in a slow cooker then puree in a blender and freeze. He gets eggs and the egg shells for calcium. I'm sticking to rice for now and adding in a new vegetable when I can. This week is turnip. I am on a fixed income (gov't disability) so cost is important to me.
So far it's a lot cheaper then kibble though 
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Misty
Can I chase it?! |
| | Barked: Thu Jun 18, '09 11:33pm PST | | | | | | Taser, I understand you are on a fixed income and I'm not sure what your living situation is, but is there any way you could start a small garden? I save SO much money by growing many of the veggies I use at home. My dad also raises chickens and rabbits, so sometimes I get free meat and lots of eggs! Raising and butchering animals obviously isn't for everyone, but he veggies could be helpful! | | | | |
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Taser
Mutts Serve Too |
| | Barked: Fri Jun 19, '09 9:40am PST | | | | | | Misty, I live in a subsidized apartment (social housing program). But, my mother has a garden in her back yard and I do get vegetables from her, and I can get lots of canned vegetables at the food bank. Vegetables and rice are not so much the problem, it's meat that's expensive here in Canada. I need to stock up when it is on sale, and space can be an issue. My Mom does have a big chest freezer I can store stuff in if I need too. I generally don't eat meat becuase of the cost and am finding it hard to find it on sale. Average price for chicken breasts would be 4.99/lb maybe 3.99/lb at a discount grocery store and remember these are CAN dollars. | | | | |
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Misty
Can I chase it?! |
| | Barked: Fri Jun 19, '09 11:00am PST | | | | | | Hmm, I've heard of some people finding good butchers who are willing to give them the trimmings from meat. Then they re trim it for any little bits of meat and use that. It sound kinda like a pain, but maybe it would be helpful? I heard that from someone on Dogster, but I can't remember who exactly. Maybe if they read this they can offer some better help. | | | | |
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