Home Cooking For Dogs

Why you need to give your dogs Home Cooking?

It's dinnertime... Do you know what your dog is eating? FDA guidelines concerning commercial dog food ingredient listings DO NOT REQUIRE THAT EVERYTHING BE LISTED!!. Further, that "lamb and rice" commercial dogfood may only be 10 to 15% lamb and rice, while the rest of it is made up of unhealthy chemicals and waste meat.

What about all those fillers and by-products and chemical preservatives listed? Do you know that many of them have been banned for human use? If we can't ingest them, our faithful canine friends should not be ingesting them either.

Do you know if your dog food supply the complete and balanced daily dietary provisions for your dog? And, with the loose regulations on dog food labeling leaving us somewhat in the dark as to what exactly we are feeding our pets, how can you be sure?

There is really only one way to be sure. Give your dog some good home cooking.

Homemade dog food gives us total control over our dog's nutritional needs. You can rest assured that all ingredients are of the highest quality, and add up to a balanced, toxin-free diet.

You do want to make sure that you provide him with all the nutritional building blocks he needs to maintain a healthy body. Animal protein should be combined with vegetables, pasta, rice, cereals and other foods to provide all the protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals needed.

Thinking of Home Cooking for Your Dog?

With the recent recall of many brands of pet food, pet owners are thinking twice about feeding their pets commercial pet foods.

Not only do we have to worry about what we are feeding our families; we now have the added worry about our cat or dog's diet.

What is a pet owner to do?

The first thing you don't do is "jump right in and start cooking."

"Why?" you ask. Simply because there are many things to take into consideration. Feeding your pet means providing the proper nutrition in order to keep him/her healthy and fit.

1. The first suggestion is read a book or two on a proper diet for your pet be it cat or dog. I have listed a few titles at the end of this article that I feel will be beneficial to read.

2. Secondly, you need to find more than one recipe to feed your pet as variety is not only the spice of life, but necessary in order to get the right combination of nutrients into the pet's body.

3. Thirdly, you have to decide if you have the time and energy to devote to the task of cooking for one or two more members of your family.

What is the benefits of home cooking?

The benefits are many, it has been proven that a homemade diet has helped many dogs with various conditions regain their health. Many pet foods are of poor quality, over processed, filled with artificial ingredients and many other chemicals, just read the labels.

Carbohydrates are often more than 50 percent of the main ingredient in most pet foods. For dogs, carbohydrates are harder to digest and can cause inflammation to the body. For cats, carbohydrates are not an essential ingredient for their diets, proteins are.

Thus a home cooked diet can provide less carbohydrates and more protein making the food easier to digest and keeps the body's immune system from becoming over reactive.

Feeding your pet, fresh or lightly cooked foods helps to supply nutrients in their natural form, which over processed pet foods does not.

There are several types of homemade diets, which include, raw and cooked foods, diets that contain little or no grains; diets mixed with commercial food, and diets that either include raw or cooked bones. There are many choices and variety is the important ingredient.

Dogs are known to eat most anything, whether it is good for them or not.

There is no "one" diet that is good for all dogs or cats.

Every pet is an individual and the diet is dependent on physical condition, size, activity level and age. What is perfect for one pet may not be good for another.

That is why variety is stressed so much. Constant feeding of one recipe may not supply all the necessary nutrients, but changing food groups and content can easily fulfill your entire pet's needs.

It is not known exactly what nutrients are needed in a dog's diet; the USDA Nutrient Database uses figures to determine only average nutritional values. Nutritional studies are going on all the time and there are still gaps in their determinations of proper nutritional values.

Even if you were to follow a diet determined by your vet or a pet nutritionist they would advise adding a vitamin/mineral supplement, as no one really knows exactly what your particular pet needs.

A homemade diet should provide the following: variety, balance over time, and calcium.

The variety can come from feeding such foods as chicken, turkey, beef, fish, eggs, cottage cheese, and some pork. Some vegetables, fruit (no grapes or raisins) and some grains can be added. Organ meats such as liver, kidneys or heart should be added at different times.

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