[ SHOWGSD-L ] home cooking for dogs (after the recent recalls)
- From: Peggy <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Showgsd-l <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:46:06 -0400
shared by Peggy with Permission
(and if you need a diet for a different size dog,
contact Monica directly)
For those of you who have asked about a homemade diet or were wondering,
this was on K9Kitchen list.
If you are afraid of trying a raw diet this is the next best choice.
It is cross posted with permission, as long as the entire post is being
sent.
Although I receive a lot of private email every day, today's requests
are heart wrenching. Desperate to find a home-cooked diet to feed their
dogs that were kibble fed just a few days ago, people have been emailing
all day. I can't keep up with the emails, so maybe this can help. Please
find below, two diets, one for a healthy 20 pd dog and another for a
healthy 50 pd dog. These go against my fundamental belief that generic
diets aren't a good choice, but due to the food recall, just about
anything is better than feeding an unknown.
These diets are cooked because that's what people have asked for. I
don't have anything against raw diets - just to make it clear :) Please
understand that I won't be tweaking the diets if your dog happens to
weigh 60 pds or 8 pounds or whatever. The booklets on my site would help
most people much more than these recipes, but these should help in the
meantime.
I've taken into consideration that most kibble fed dogs, especially ones
eating foods containing wheat gluten, may have different food
tolerances. I've also considered that these dogs are accustomed to more
carbohydrates in the diet than what many of us feed. For these reasons,
these recipes are *not* indicative of my usual diets. They use
ingredients contained in many pet foods and are formulated to make an
easier transition. They offer no variety, which is also not the usual
way I go about things. However, people are asking for the simplest
recipe possible, and I'm trying to honor the requests.
You may crosspost to other lists, if the list rules allow. My goal is to
help dog owners, so go ahead and post to your breed lists, breeder lists
etc - but please post this in it's entirety, or not at all.
Please note that I have no way of knowing what supplements someone may
have access to, or what those supplements may contain. For this reason,
the supplements in these recipes are ones from my site, however, I am
not offering these recipes in order to boost sales of my supplements.
You can go to my site to look at what a supplement provides and buy a
product that's the same, or as close as possible, from another source.
Just be sure that you are not adding more minerals, and that includes
the iodine is various brands of kelp.
The amounts of foods and supplements are per day unless noted otherwise.
The weight/measure of a food is the *cooked* weight/measure, not raw.
Where weight is noted, use a kitchen scale, not cup measurements. Cups
measure volume, not weight,
For a 20 pd dog:
4 oz chicken dark meat with skin, stewed
1 oz beef liver - every 6 days
3/4 cup enriched egg noodles
1 TBS carrot (optional)
3/4 tsp bone meal
1/4 tsp. NoSalt (found in grocery stores next to table salt)
1/16 tsp kelp
5 mg zinc citrate or gluconate
2 capsules, vitamin E -- per week
500 mg wild salmon oil or flaxseed oil
1 3/4 capsules magnesium citrate
2 capsules, Multi Mineral Complex -- per week
1/2 tablet, vitamin B compound, per week*
* B vitamins are water soluble and excreted through urine. They should
be provided often, so feed 1/4 tablet twice weekly. Also, B vitamins can
upset an empty stomach. Always feed with food. Best bet: tuck it in a
hand held piece of food and feed as a treat.
For a 50 pound dog:
8 oz ground beef, lean, 15% fat
1/3 oz beef liver
7 oz brown rice (boiled as 1 part rice in 3 parts water until very, very
soft)
1 oz zucchini
1/8 tsp NoSalt
1/8 tsp kelp
1 capsule, cod liver oil
1 3/4 tsp bone meal
2 capsules, Multi Mineral Complex -- per week
1 tablet, vitamin B compound -- every 2 weeks
2 capsules, vitamin E 200 IU -- per week
These diets meet 2006 NRC recommended allowances. Nutrient requirements
are not linear to body weight. That is, a 100 pound dog does not have
the requirements of a 10 pound dog multiplied by ten. So, these recipes
would need tweaking to suit the weight of dogs weighing more or less
than noted, but they're a start. Feed as required to maintain healthy
weight - until you can change the diets to a more suitable profile for
an individual dog.
Monica Segal - AHCW
http://www.monicasegal.com
Author of: "K9Kitchen" and "Optimal Nutrition"
Seminars by Invitation: Email monica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Consultations ~ Diet Analyses ~ Quality-Tested Supplements
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