Home-Prepared Dog Food – How to Make a Balanced Diet Home-prepared diet guidelines: You don’t need a spreadsheet or a degree in nutrition to feed your dog a complete and balanced diet. By Mary Straus Over the past few months, I have offered diet critiques that tweaked good home-prepared diets in order to address health concerns – or simply to optimize the diet. To do this, I analyzed the diets and compared them to the National Research Council’s guidelines for canine nutrition. I want to be clear, though: I don’t believe this is a requirement for feeding a homemade diet. Problems arise with how this description is interpreted. Complete and BalancedIt’s important that the diet you feed your dog is “complete and balanced,” meaning it meets all of your dog’s nutritional needs. Home-prepared diets that include a wide variety of foods fed at different meals rely on balance over time, not at every meal. A human nutritionist would never expect someone to follow a single recipe with no variation, as veterinary nutritionists routinely do.
Homemade Dog Food: Cost, Recipe Advice, Nutrition, and Storage Make Homemade Dog Food By Marianne WaitWebMD Pet Health Feature Your dog is part of your family, and you may be willing to do most anything for him. That could include making his meals from scratch. If so, get out the apron -- but get ready to teach yourself a few new tricks. Making dog food that meets Fido’s nutrition needs isn't as simple as you might think, says pet nutritionist Cailin Heinze, VMD. 1. Many dog food recipes fall short in certain nutrients, especially iron, copper, calcium, and zinc. The best way to make sure a recipe has what it takes is to choose one created by an expert with training in dog nutrition, says Jennifer Larsen, DVM, PhD. slideshow Foods Your Dog Should Never Eat start Your pet needs protein (animal meat, seafood, dairy, or eggs), fat (from meat or oil) and carbohydrates (grains or vegetables). And if that's not enough to consider, if your dog has a health problem, he may need a special diet.
Dog Food Recipes - Homemade Dog Food Our dog food recipes are broken into to basic categories. My personal belief is feeding your dog a raw dog food is the best. There are delicate nutrients in raw meat your dog needs and cooking destroys them. I also believe that some of you just will not feed your dog a piece of raw meat. Maybe your vet has cautioned you against feeding raw meat to dogs or possible you think it’s just plain gross. As time goes on I will also post some specific dog food recipes designed to help your dog fight certain health problems. Take the first step to feeding your dog a healthy homemade dog food today!
Supromega Fish Oil Omega 3 It's important to consider adding an Omega-3 (fatty acids) supplement to your pet's diet as well as your own. Each and every day we learn more about the added benefits of fatty acids, especially polyunsaturated fats including Omega-3s. They are important to supporting your pet's good health. Omega-3 fatty acids help support healthy skin and strong immune system. Itchy Skin The daily use of fish oil (preferably from Menhaden) helps support healthy skin function. Support Immune System Fatty acids also help to support the immune system, promote a bright and lustrous coat, and support your pet's healthy skin. Help for Senior Pets In addition, as pets age they are more likely to begin suffering. Guaranteed Analysis Ingredients: SuprOmega ® Fish Oil All Natural Ingredients: Menhaden fish oil, vitamin E supplement (natural source vitamin E) mixed tocopherols (used as a preservative)
Best of Breed Dog Biscuits: King Arthur Flour 1) Preheat the oven to 300°F. Lightly grease a couple of baking sheets, or line them with parchment. 2) Mix together the flour, oats, parsley, dried milk, and salt. 3) Add the eggs and peanut butter, stirring to combine; the mixture will be crumbly. 4) Add enough water to bring the dough together; depending on the season, you may need to add a bit more (winter), or a bit less (summer). 5) To make biscuits using a dog-bone cutter, roll the dough about 1/4" thick, and cut with a 3 1/2" cutter (or the size of your choice). 6) To make dog "cookies," drop the dough in walnut-sized balls onto the prepared baking sheets. 7) Bake the biscuits for about 40 to 60 minutes, baking the smaller cookies for a shorter amount of time. 8) Remove the biscuits from the oven, and cool right on the pans. Yield: about 42 larger (3 1/2" dog-bone) biscuits, 60 smaller (round) biscuits.
Make Your Own DIY Dog Treats! Curbly-Original I'm known around these parts as "the crazy Schnauzer lady", but in truth, I'm crazy about ALL dogs... and think they deserve some tasty, homemade treats every now and then! This simple, two-ingredient recipe can be customized like nobody's business, so get creative and have a little fun (while pampering your pooch)! I originally made these treats for Wrigley's first birthday (yes, I celebrated it. Re: crazy dog lady; see above), and have made a ton of variations since. Ingredients: 2 cups 100% organic whole wheat flour (or wheat germ, or spelt, or rolled oats, or a mixture of these, etc.)2 (4oz) jars of pureed baby food - beef, blueberry, sweet potato, chicken - whatever. Directions: 1. 2. 3. 4. Easy, right? How will you customize these treats for your pooch? *Onions are toxic to dogs! Tagged : Foodie-Fridays, Curbly-Original, How-To, tutorial, dog, pet, recipe, DIY
Paw-Print Dog Treats Recipe advertisement No Thanks Keep In Touch With MarthaStewart.com Sign up and we'll send inspiration straight to you. Martha Stewart takes your privacy seriously. Paw-Print Dog Treats These homemade biscuits are sure to make an impression. Yield: Makes about 2 dozen FacebookMORE TwitterGoogle+ Source: Martha Stewart Living, March 2010 The Food Newsletter Great tips & recipes delivered to your inbox. Sign Me Up Ingredients 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for surface 1/2 cup wheat germ 1/2 cup brewer's yeast 2 teaspoons salt 3 tablespoons canola oil 1 1/2 cups homemade or store-bought low-sodium chicken stock Directions Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cook's Note Dog treats can be stored at room temperature for up to 1 month. From Our Partners You Might Like Recommended by Fave It Made It Rate It Reviews Reviews (4) Add a Comment jacksonn 27 Nov, 2013 This is wonderful recipe:) You should give your dogs well-balanced healthy food like me. Related Topics
A Subtle Revelry | dog treat birthday candles • A Subtle Revelry Our sweet pup turned six this month and we threw a little doggie birthday party! These doggie bone treat candles make me just giddy. They were really fun to light and sing around. Once we cut off the charred end they became an eatable present for our family’s loyalest friend. To make the dog bone candles break apart a thick rope toy into smaller rope sections and wrap them individually in the dog pretzel dough. Leave about an inch of rope sticking out of the top and cover the rope with tin foil while baking. To make the pretzel dough combine 1 tsp brown sugar, 2 tsp active dry yeast, 3/4 cups whole wheat flour, 1/4 cup dry milk, 1/2 tbsp salt.
Gift Recipe: Homemade Dog Treats — Recipes from The Kitchn While we're coming up with special treats for one another during the holidays, let's not forget our four-legged companions. The canines in our lives aren't necessarily looking for the sweets that we indulge in this time of year, but their tastebuds will thank you for this little bit of bacon-y goodness. Whether the lucky pup belongs to you or a friend, these treats will make them your loyal lover for life. This recipe is also very simple, with base of wheat germ, egg, and bacon fat. I had some bacon fat already on hand, and you might too. This is a great way to use it up, and it makes this quick and easy recipe just that much easier. Some ideas for easy add-ins: parsley (a natural breath freshener for us and for our dogs), natural peanut butter for a boost of protein, pureed spinach for a healthy kick, or even leftover pumpkin puree. I simply cut these into approximately 1x4-inch bars, but you can also use bone- or heart-shaped cookie cutters to shape this rolled dough.
Welcome to the Craft Yarn Council and Warm Up America! Speed Cleaning | How To Keep Your House Clean in 45 Minutes a Day by Ruth Soukup on September 8 There are lots of reasons a clean house is important to me, but the biggest is probably simply that my brain works better when my house is clean. Over the years I’ve had lots of people ask how I keep things tidy most of the time. So–at the risk of having you all think I am completely crazy–I thought today I’d share my little “speed cleaning” routine. I probably spend, on average, about 45 minutes to an hour each morning making my house sparkle. However, to me it is well worth spending 5-7 hours a week cleaning in order to have a house that is pretty darn neat & tidy most of the time. I am a list kind-of girl, so I actually have a daily checklist that I use each day. My “Control Center:” I don’t use a wide variety of cleaning supplies, and I have never been that picky about brands. Here is my system: General Guidelines: Start at one end of the house. Bedroom(s) (5-10 minutes each, depending on how much to pick up): Always make the bed. Finishing Up:
Quick Tidy Up Needed? Use This Laundry Basket Trick! It never seems to fail. Just about everyone living in the house seems to leave items out, not putting them back into the room they're supposed to be in. This can quickly lead to a mess, especially as more and more items are out of their place. That's why a routine tidy up in your home can be so helpful. So I thought this tip from a reader, Karen H., from Chatham Ontario was just great. Karen says: Each morning I take a laundry basket (or a box) and move from room to room, putting everything in the basket that does NOT belong in that particular room. As I move to each room I add to the basket, or take out from the basket. If you go around twice, everything should find its place in the right room. For example, if a towel, a pair of shoes, and a dish, are in the living room, it gets put in my basket. In the kitchen I might find a book and some toys. When in the bathroom, I hang the towel on the rack, and the shoes get put in the hall closet. It works great. Taylor says: What a great idea!