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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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Dodger
I like to smile. | 
 | | Barked: Tue Nov 3, '09 2:06pm PST | |  | |  | | I went back quite a ways and had a hard time finding any actual recipes for dog foods. so I thought I would try to collect a bunch in one spot. Any good ones? Share here
Pumpkin Dog Ice cream (or pumpkin frosty paws)
Canned pumpkin (pure)
Peanut butter
Oats (optional)
Banana (or fruit of your choice)
Mix all together and pour in freezable cups and freeze for at least 3 hours.
My dogs love them and you can use non fat plain yogurt too if you want |  |  | |  |
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Sassy
Princess and the- Pea |
 | | Barked: Tue Nov 3, '09 5:05pm PST | | | | | | I know. I don't want to post what works for my dog as it isn't right for other dogs. Even the amount to feed her that works great for her isn't a rule for other dogs.
Sassy gets cookies I made up out of stuff that fits into her special diet. It is a general recipe you can change as you like. The slightly coarse rice flour makes a cookie with texture as if you had used leavening and so far all the flavorings make a bread type cookie that stays together very well and is easily torn into small bits without crumbling. I always store home made food in the freezer.
4 ounces of rice [I use low phosphorus glutinous rice] ground in a coffee mill until like corn meal. Possibly cream of wheat or rice would work as well.
2 egg whites, a whole egg works fine.
4 ounces of wet stuff. So far I have used canned oysters, raw beef liver, ripe banana and canned pumpkin. Other canned fish, baby food and fruits would be great as well. Put the wet food through a processor so it is a puree.
Seasoning. I use cinnamon and/or ginger on the veggie-fruit ones and garlic for the meaty ones. 1/2 teaspoon of spice or 1/2 to 1 garlic clove chopped small.
Mix together your choice of grain, wet stuff, egg and seasoning, spread in well greased or parchment paper lined 8x8" to 9x9" pan and bake at 350* for 15 minutes until firm in the middle. I cut into 10 bits as it makes 10 ounces and add to my tracking at Nutritiondata.com as they are very nutritious and fill in nutrient requirements. Liver adds iron, copper, vitamin A and B12, banana adds manganese and oyster adds zinc, copper and B vitamins.
Good way to use small amounts of good stuff and I have doubled this and baked in a 9x13" pan for thicker cookies. Low fat if you like and wheat free.
I also made egg yolk/oyster cookies [really an omelet] from the leftovers from my latest baking for Max who is fed raw and doesn't get much grain or cooked food. I whirled the leftover oysters and egg yolks plus a bit of garlic in the still dirty mini food processor. Sprayed a frying pan with non stick stuff and poured it in once the pan was hot. Turned heat down to medium and watched it carefully. Once set I removed the pan from the heat and let cool. Then I carefully removed the omelet from the pan and cut into large floppy servings. It was 1.5 ounces of oyster and 6 egg yolks so I figured about 7 servings. Whole eggs would be fine and cheese, fish, any meat or liver would be delicious. I bet this would be great kong stuffing. I used it for rewards after agility runs as the treat pouch is full of holes from lots of tugging and what ever goes in it needs to be large so it won't fall out! It was a little fatty feeling but not too bad to handle, held together fine and was smelly and easy to feed bits for training. Sure wish I had thought of this before tossing out all the extra egg yolks all the other times I made Sassy her cookies! I don't want Max to eat all that yolk in one sitting but making cookies meant he ate them over 3-4 days. Much more doable. | | | | |
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Snickers
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| | Barked: Wed Nov 4, '09 11:51am PST | | | | | | Good idea! Mostly we feed Sojos but we do freeze up turkey or chicken and then cook it up and mix it with rice. Simple but enjoyable.
Sometimes we make a pasta for them with plain cooked noodles, carrots and blueberries (hehe we grow them in the summer so we use it) | | | | |
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Ciel
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| | Barked: Mon Nov 9, '09 9:23pm PST | | | | | | The Honest Kitchen website has a ton of fun recipes:
http://www.thehonestkitchen.com/education/pet-food-recip es.shtml
I was super excited when I found them.
You can also get the recipe for Halo's Spot's Stew, but it requires such a long cooking process, that I feel like it wouldn't be very nutrient rich. I would cook it for a shorter amount of time. But they have a lot of other recipes too (just found out about these!)
http://www.halopets.com/resources/homemade-pet-food-recipes .html
http://www.halopets.com/resources/homemade-pet-food-recipes/h omemade-dog-food-recipes.html | | | | |
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Kiki
Hey, hey! Drop- the meat, I'm a- waitin'!
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McLovin
They call me- "lovin" |
| | Barked: Fri Nov 20, '09 10:57am PST | | | | | | Wow, I've GOT to try some of these pumpkin recipes!! They look GREAT!
I was given some basic meal recipes by a holistic vet when I lived up in Michigan. Here it is:
For a 40 lb dog:
1/4 lb ground chicken, turkey or beef (heart or muscle ok) Liver should not be used more than once weekly
Sweet potato (1/2 lb per 50 lb dog)
1 cup whole milk (raw, non-hemogenized if possible)
2 large eggs (optional: ground up, softened shells included)
1/4 cup string beans or other vegetables - steamed
1 tablespoon Vitamin/Mineral powder
1 tablespoon ghee, olive oil or vegetable oil
1 1/2 teaspoon bone meal, calcium or softened eggshells
200 i.u. Vitamin E
(Optional) 1/4 teaspoon Tamari, Braggs liquid aminos or a dash of iodidized salt
(Optional) 1 clove garlic crushed or minced
(Optional) 1/4 teaspoon ginger, licorice and/or cumin
Yes this is quite extensive, but I think it gives some really good ideas. Even if you don't have time to prepare this gourmet feast every day, you can pick and choose certain parts that you like.
I have 1 more recipe posted on my brand new website: www.candidk9.com. Check it out if you will and let me know what you think. It's my first stab at being a webmaster (I think that's the right word anyways!) Enjoy! The other recipe is under the "Doggie Diet" sub menu.  | | | | |
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