I noticed quite a few of you seem to have special diets for your dogs.
I was wondering if anyone cooks for your dog(s) and is there any way
to actually save more by using natural ingredients rather than buying
bags of dog food. It seems healthier to create a balanced diet for
your dog rather than buy processed food. My dog is well established as
a finicky eater so I thought this would be a better alternative. She's
also small (15 lbs) and doesn't eat that much each day. I usually give
her a morning and afternoon meal which works out thus far.

If you have any ideas or recipes please post

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I noticed quite a few of you seem to have special diets for your dogs.
I was wondering if anyone cooks for your dog(s) and is there any way
to actually save more by using natural ingredients rather than buying
bags of dog food. It seems healthier to create a balanced diet for
your dog rather than buy processed food. My dog is well established as
a finicky eater so I thought this would be a better alternative. She's
also small (15 lbs) and doesn't eat that much each day. I usually give
her a morning and afternoon meal which works out thus far.

If you have any ideas or recipes please post

Hi Monkeyman,

As for actually "cooking" any meals for dogs, I would be careful about
doing this because the process of "cooking" the food can cook out a
lot of the nutrients out of foods. If you look at any processed dog
foods, there are always added vitamins and minerals to the food to
make up for what is cooked out during the process of making the food.

I feed my dogs a raw diet which can be the source of great debate but
I have had my dogs on it and love the results.

If you are squimish about feeding raw to your dogs then my suggestion
would be cook the food lightly, add supplements, give a variety of
food (different meats, eggs and dark veggies), add some calcium to
counter act the amount of phosphorus that meat has and avoid grains.

Cymbaline

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I noticed quite a few of you seem to have special diets for your dogs.
I was wondering if anyone cooks for your dog(s) and is there any way
to actually save more by using natural ingredients rather than buying
bags of dog food. It seems healthier to create a balanced diet for
your dog rather than buy processed food. My dog is well established as
a finicky eater so I thought this would be a better alternative. She's
also small (15 lbs) and doesn't eat that much each day. I usually give
her a morning and afternoon meal which works out thus far.

If you have any ideas or recipes please post

Hi Monkeyman,

As for actually "cooking" any meals for dogs, I would be careful about
doing this because the process of "cooking" the food can cook out a
lot of the nutrients out of foods. If you look at any processed dog
foods, there are always added vitamins and minerals to the food to
make up for what is cooked out during the process of making the food.



Monkeyman,

I eat cooked foods and my doctor assures me that it still has vitamins and
nutrients. I am certain that dog food is not any different.

"Child" wrote in message ...
"Cymbaline" wrote in message

Hi Monkeyman,

As for actually "cooking" any meals for dogs, I would be careful about
doing this because the process of "cooking" the food can cook out a
lot of the nutrients out of foods. If you look at any processed dog
foods, there are always added vitamins and minerals to the food to
make up for what is cooked out during the process of making the food.



Monkeyman,

I eat cooked foods and my doctor assures me that it still has vitamins and
nutrients. I am certain that dog food is not any different.



True I guess that's why they add all those wonderful extras to it as well!

Cymbaline

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"Cymbaline" wrote in message

Hi Monkeyman,

As for actually "cooking" any meals for dogs, I would be careful about
doing this because the process of "cooking" the food can cook out a
lot of the nutrients out of foods. If you look at any processed dog
foods, there are always added vitamins and minerals to the food to
make up for what is cooked out during the process of making the food.



Monkeyman,

I eat cooked foods and my doctor assures me that it still has vitamins
and
nutrients. I am certain that dog food is not any different.



True I guess that's why they add all those wonderful extras to it as well!

Cymbaline

Supposedly, we americans, with our vitamin supplements have the most
expensive **** in america. I think that dog food companies add vitamins
because it sells.

Hi Monkeyman,

As for actually "cooking" any meals for dogs, I would be careful about
doing this because the process of "cooking" the food can cook out a
lot of the nutrients out of foods. If you look at any processed dog
foods, there are always added vitamins and minerals to the food to
make up for what is cooked out during the process of making the food.



Monkeyman,

I eat cooked foods and my doctor assures me that it still has vitamins
and
nutrients. I am certain that dog food is not any different.



True I guess that's why they add all those wonderful extras to it as well!

Cymbaline

Supposedly, we americans, with our vitamin supplements have the most
expensive **** in america. I think that dog food companies add vitamins
because it sells.

That's an interesting way of thinking. So what you are basically
saying is that non of the added vitamins and minerals in pet food is
actually beneficial?

(Cymbaline) wrote in
m:


Supposedly, we americans, with our vitamin supplements have the most
expensive **** in america. I think that dog food companies add
vitamins because it sells.

That's an interesting way of thinking. So what you are basically
saying is that non of the added vitamins and minerals in pet food is
actually beneficial?

I wouldnt' say "none". I would say most of them probably aren't needed.

--
BethF, Anchorage, AK

It's YOUR God.
They are YOUR rules.
YOU burn in hell.

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Child wrote:
I wouldnt' say "none". I would say most of them probably aren't needed.

Duncan's been a bit gimpy recently and the vet said to put
him on glucosamine. She said that what's included in dog
food isn't nearly enough to be useful.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Librarians are more interested in pushing pornography on kids
than fighting terrorism -- Ed Meese

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Melinda Shore wrote:

Duncan's been a bit gimpy recently and the vet said to put
him on glucosamine. She said that what's included in dog
food isn't nearly enough to be useful.

my understanding--which could be wrong!--is that if dog foods
had an effective level of glucosamine in them, they would have
to be treated as supplements (in terms of labelling and
testing). they would also cost a great deal more as
glucosamine isn't cheap. ain't marketing grand?

--
shelly (perfectly foul wench) and elliott and harriet
http://home.bluemarble.net/~scouvrette

(Melinda Shore) wrote in
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In article ,
Child wrote:
I wouldnt' say "none". I would say most of them probably aren't
needed.

Duncan's been a bit gimpy recently and the vet said to put
him on glucosamine. She said that what's included in dog
food isn't nearly enough to be useful.

Thats correct - the dose recommended by my vet for Glucosamine is alot more
than is in dog food. But i wasnt' talking about glucosamine - I was
talking about the vitamin supplements that are added to dog food. Or human
food for that matter.

--
BethF, Anchorage, AK

It's YOUR God.
They are YOUR rules.
YOU burn in hell.