Comments on: Menus for preparing your own pet food http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2007/03/26/menus-for-preparing-your-own-pet-food/ Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:33:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kate http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2007/03/26/menus-for-preparing-your-own-pet-food/comment-page-1/#comment-461 Kate Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:22:42 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2007/03/26/menus-for-preparing-your-own-pet-food/#comment-461 Hi Gary,
I’m extremely leery about feeding my 13 year old cat raw meat, so your readers who want to make their own cooked dog or cat food might be interested in this website: http://www.BalanceIT.com
This website sells recipes for cooked dog and cat food. (You can see the veterinary consultants at this website:www.dvmconsulting.com.)
The recipes are quite specific, telling you exactly the number of grams of each ingredient you’ll need. The recipes also include how much of what human vitamin and mineral supplements you wiil need to buy at a drug store, or you can buy the company’s supplement, which I decided to do for my first foray into cooking for Their Highnesses. A couple of caveats here…the recipes are not exactly dirt cheap at $20 each, though you do get a 10% discount if you buy more that 3 recipes. You might need to do this if you have a multiple animal household as the recipes are all formulated according to your pet’s age and weight. These are all recipes for NORMAL weight, healthy animals. Also, you will need to have a scale with 1 gram increments! Naturally, my food scale is in 50 gram increments. Some ingredients are listed by the cup, also, but this is not very practical in the case of a small animal (one recipe calls for 3/16 of a cup of cooked barley, for instance).
P.S. I love your column.

]]> By: Holly P http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2007/03/26/menus-for-preparing-your-own-pet-food/comment-page-1/#comment-460 Holly P Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:51:11 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/garybogue/2007/03/26/menus-for-preparing-your-own-pet-food/#comment-460 Hello Gary,

Bad dog food has me making my own. I have spent hours the past few days looking up and comparing recipes. Raw Food…. Consensus seems to be 1 to 1 and 1/2 pounds per day for a 50 pound dog with 1 meat portion for every 2-4 vegetable portions (No pork due to trichinosis and avoid night shade veggies: eggplant…etc) Some grain, either cooked rice or oatmeal to transition dog to homemade food-but not necessary for long term health. Chicken necks, wings and backs, always raw, to provide calcium (never knew raw chicken was okay, learned some very new things doing this research!) Using raw chicken parts/ground meat and finely chopped veggie medley….Mixing meat and veggies together just before feeding, adding 2-4 oz of water (hot to take off the refridgerator chill) to the meat/veggie mix when you serve it. Organ meats are really good. Eggs soft boiled for 1 minute. As for supplements…best advice I’ve seen is to talk to your vet about your individual dog. I found good basics by typing in the search words ‘raw dog food recipes’. Started feeding my dogs “raw” on Saturday and the dogs seem to be loving it!

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