Healthy Dog Food Recipes Anyone?

[Twitterpated]

Would love to make this for my babies but one is on lowest calorie food there is and will not come off it as he is prone to horrific weight gain (bit like his owner I spose) and the other has a skin condition and must be on specialist food coupled with medication. The trouble we go to for our beloved family members!!

[gertbysea]

I love making dog foods. The dogs never complain and the variety you can make is endless. This week  I cooked a chicken whole to make stock for myself then shredded the chicken in the  TMX. I added small chunks of raw beef liver and heart, a couple of raw eggs including the shell lots of cooked and raw veg two cloves of garlic and about a cup of raw oats.. I froze some  and  the rest keeps for a  few days in the fridge.  When i see cheap lean meats of any sort  I buy it  with the dogs in mind. They don't care if it is tough or nearly out of date. They don't care it is budget or gourmet. I did some cost comparisons  years ago and home made wins  still. Ask your vet for an anti itch diet and I am sure you can make it. A low fat diet for doggies it very easy as well.  Don't forget fish also in the diet. My dogs love sardines bones and all but that is a special treat.  Even a small amount of fish mixed in with other things  is good but I draw the line at  salmon at $30 a kilo. One dog loves prawns including the heads and shell but the other cannot abide even the smell of a prawn.

I say ask your vet for advice on the basics required and then invent.

Gretch

[JuliaBalbilla]

I was brought up with dogs but now just have cats.  I have a German book called 'Cooking for Cats', but OMG the ingredients are SO expensive ie fillet steak at £40+  a kg in the UK and they are non TMX recipes.  However I am quite happy to pass them on to you.

JB

[gertbysea]

Cooking for cats is entirely different for sure Julia.  They have special requirements and no doubt it would be expensive to make food for them. Cats would probably stick their noses up at home made foods without a fancy label. LOL!

Yikes and I thought  meat was expensive here in Australia. I remember buying a whole lamb for 9 cents a kilo way back when and the other day I saw some lamb chops for $44 a kilo.

Gretch

[KM]

To Gertbysea... (great name by the way!)

Somewhere I found a post by you which I think mentioned grinding or somehow using bones in the TM to make food for dogs. I cannot find that post again. 
 
I was wondering if grinding raw chicken bones in the TM was going to damage the blades or not. 

If you or anyone else can help me, I would much appreciate it.

Kate

[gertbysea]

To Gertbysea... (great name by the way!)

Somewhere I found a post by you which I think mentioned grinding or somehow using bones in the TM to make food for dogs. I cannot find that post again. 
 
I was wondering if grinding raw chicken bones in the TM was going to damage the blades or not. 

If you or anyone else can help me, I would much appreciate it.

Kate

Hi Kate. Yup I have ground the smaller raw bones in the TMX. Not the leg bones though. Jus turn the dial smoothly but not slowly up to 8/9.

Good for doggies.

Gertbysea!

[KM]

Wow, that was quick!!

Thank you soooo much. And yes, I wasn't thinking big hard bones, but smaller, thinner ones.

Am going to try this very soon, so thanks. 

[fundj&e]

 

[judydawn]

A doggie chest of drawers - how cute Uni.  I wonder what he keeps in the other 2 drawers 

[fundj&e]

extra food in 1 one and in the other his brush,clippers shampoos,etc