Everybody worries about what Dog shouldn't eat but nobody ever talks about what dogs should eat! And so we kind of build up this thing that Oh dogs shouldn't eat people's food, it's not people's food it's just food.
People food goes
on your plate and should stay on your plate but uh ingredients; They're just
ingredients they're just food, so I try to always help dogs get a better share
of actual food.
And my
approach for feeding a dog is to do 50% commercial food and 50% homemade food,
with the commercial food, they're going to get all those vitamins and minerals
and that's what keeps dogs of dogsbody from failing and then the other 50%
homemade is can be almost anything.
I like to
use eggs as one of my primary sources, with a scrambled egg is quick easy has everything
inside that shell that is necessary to form a baby chick so it can do form a lot of powerful things in your dog's body.
And then
also, that eggshell is really high in calcium since calcium is one of those
things that dogs need. You can dry them in the oven powder them up in a food
processor or a blender until it's really fine dust and that creates an additional source of calcium to meet a dog's high calcium requirement.
And then I
kind of lick around the grocery store and I say hey what else should we add
here? there's a lot of opportunities: pork is probably one of the
meats that are not served to dogs as much because there's a lot of concentration
on beef and chicken and Turkey, but lean cuts of pork are really good lean cuts
of beef, beef heart is really good I particularly like using things like
chicken gizzards and chicken hearts in dog food because they like it is chewy,
it's meaty they're really good sources of protein and there are little cuts of
meat that is secondary to what we eat.
And then I
kind of go to town when it comes to the produce aisle and I like to throw in
things like yams, carrots, green beans, spinach, apples, plums …
Then I try
to throw in things like rosemary, it's really high in accent and antibacterial properties,
I like turmeric because it has cancer-fighting properties, I throw in a ton of
parsley into the dog's food because that's really high in vitamin K and it's
really high in cancer-fighting properties, and then pretty much I just kind of
try to do a lot of variety, I try to alternate between a lot of different foods.
And that's
one of the great things about doing that is you can also take advantage of this
is on sale or this is more available or this is seasonal, one thing about vegetables
and fruits the more fibrous it is the more difficult it will be for a dog short
digestive system to process that so they actually need you to either mechanically
do it break it down by grading it or chopping it really finely or using a
cooking it (well to sort of cooking still it's very soft things), like carrots
and apples are pretty easy for them to digest but the harder fibrous it is
the more help that they need.
