Homemade dog food recipes
What you need to know before cooking your own dog food for your dog.
Homemade dog food for the dog who is allergic to pet food.
The ingredients to avoid and what additives are in commercial pet diets.
It costs me a fortune to buy it and it is made up of mostly water, rice and a little bit of chicken.
I'd rather make dog food myself the ingredients are relatively inexpensive once you break it down. You'll see that it really doesn't cost that much.
I've added one for dog food that is very close to the ingredients in the high priced canned diet and left out a bunch of ingredients that my dog doesn't need.
Before making food for your dog, ask your vets' advice to be sure.
Homemade dog food recipes for allergies
Before you start to look at the recipes you should read about the ingredients to avoid.
Ingredients to Avoid
Chocolate can cause damage to the liver (dogs cannot metabolize many foods)
- Sugar and anything containing the sweetener Xylitol.
- Grapes
- Grapes or raisins
- Macadamia nuts
- Walnuts
- Oh heck, all nuts
- Mushrooms
- Mustard seeds
- Onions
- Garlic
Canned dog food my way.
- 3 pounds cooked and then ground chicken meat
- 2 1/2 cups broccoli, cauliflower and peas, steamed then chopped
- 2 cups rice cooked
- 1/1/2 cups mashed potatoes
- 1 Tablespoon of bone meal
10 tablets dog vitamin (recommended by your vet) I use Pet Tabs but I'm sure there is other good vitamins out there. Ask your vet and before he sells them to you, look it up online. You'll get a better price.
Prep time 15 Minutes
cooking time 35 Minutes
Yield: 12 cups
DIRECTIONS
Place chicken in a large bowl and add bone meal and vitamins.
Add vegetables, and rice into the chicken and mix together, add potatoes and mix some more.
Use some old cans to store the food in.
Keep a couple in the fridge (more if you have a large dog)
Store covered in the refrigerator and freeze the rest if you are not going to use it right away.
Look below for a list of what is in the very high priced dog food, Prescription Diet
Other items to consider when making food for your dog.
What breed is your dog? What country does the breed come from?
It's a well known fact that dogs do best on a diet that closely follows what he ate as an ancestor.
My dogs are from Scotland. They are naturally attracted to rabbit, venison and salmon. They also eat oats. Why? Because the owners of these ancient dogs would feed them table (did the Highlanders have tables?) scraps and a staple of the Scottish diet are oat cakes.
Leftover oat cakes get hard like dog biscuits and so were given to the dogs as treats.
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Ingredients in the high priced Vet Food.
- Water
- Egg product (what's an egg product?)
- Turkey
- Rice
- Ground whole grain corn (I wouldn't use corn. It's used as a filler)
- Pork liver (along with all the hormones concentrated in the liver?)
- Soy fiber
- Dicalcium Phosphate (Mineral Calcium phosphate)
- Potassium Chloride (use regular potassium. This type is used to make fertilizer and given to cattle, therefore cheap)
- iodized salt
- Calcium carbonate (inexpensive dietary calcium supplement or antacid)
- Choline Cholride (Choline chloride is mass produced and is an important additive in feed especially for chicken where it accelerates growth)
- Vitamin e
- Ferrous Sulfate (Ferrous sulfate is used to treat iron-deficiency anemia. Side effects of therapy may include nausea and abdominal discomfort after taking iron)
- Zinc oxide,(Zinc oxide is added to many breakfast cereals, as a source of zinc; a necessary nutrient. (Other cereals may contain zinc sulfate, for the same purpose.) Some prepackaged foods also include trace amount)
- Taurine (taurine is used as a functional food in many energy drinks and energy products)
- Thiamine Mononitrate vitamin B1
- Copper sulfate (Copper sulfate pentahydrate is a fungicide)
- Manganous Oxide
- Niacin
- Calcium Pantothenate (vitamin b5)
- Vitamin b12
- Pyridoxine Hydrochoride (Vitamin b6)
- Biotin
- Riboflavin
- Calcium iodate (is a compound of calcium and iodate anion. It is used as a dough conditioner)
- Vitamin D3 supplement
- Sodium Selenite (This salt is a source of selenium in many food supplements)
- Folic Acid
A note about water.
We pretty much take water for granted. In the big cities, our water has so much Pollution in it that we have to either buy bottled water or filter it yourself.
Since dogs only live a short while compared to humans, it would seem the best interest of the pet to give him filtered water too.
Our state water supply does have filters on them but the filters are rather large and do not filter out microscopic particles. It has been shown that there are many drugs that have leached into the water systems. Most drugs found in water supply are anti-anxiety, those little blue pills and sleeping pills.
Do you really want these ingredients in your dogs water? The liver of the dog sometimes stores certain substances. i.e. take walnuts for instance. A walnut will not kill your dog but give walnuts to your dog over a period of time and it will cause all sorts of liver problems including cancer. I know because my dog died from liver cancer.
No vet or hospital ever told me the things dogs should not eat. Why don't they tell you these things?
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