Other articles with keyword "DOGGIEPING" since 12/29/04
Kill a moose. Cut and wrap it. Save scraps. Put scraps in a large kettle with water and cook. Hint: A turkey fryer filled with water works very well. Pack in freezer bags and freeze. Use as needed.
Oh, and GREAT IDEA, girlangler! Can't wait to read more comments. :)
..actually, on a more serious note, DO NOT give a dog Lamb bones.. they don't hold up to chewing like a Turkey or Beef bone and will fragment into a lot of small razor sharp pieces and you don't want to know what happens next.
I have all 5 of my dogs on the BARF diet. 3 of them have never been on anything else. There is a lot of information on the web about BARF ( Biologically Appropriate Raw Foods). For freepers who do not have time to read up on the diet, which is really quite simple and inexpensive, I recommend Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance foods. They can be ordered from Jeffers.
www.1800jeffers.com. Full information on ingredients can be seen on the Jeffers website.
Our dogs on the BARF diet have no obesity problems, no orthopedic problems, great teeth, no bad breath, lots of energy, and beautiful coats. The only drawback is that the chicken necks sometimes give them horrendous flatulance but heck that is why God gave us the outdoors.
My vet suggested cottage cheese with a teaspoon of flaxseed oil so they get a little bit of that every night. My dogs get steamed veggies (minus onions or garlic) a couple of times a week. I also give them bread and meats.
Temporary because it lacks the necessary vitamins and amino acids needed it their diets.
I'll give you one from my child-hood.
For some reason, for leaving in the country, we feed our dogs canned dog food. I guess it was better than allowing them to eat the chickens. Every now and then we would run out.
My mother would fix a large pot of oatmeal, heat up and add some of the bacon grease she had been saving, then throw in some of the table scraps.
Watching the dogs eat this feast showed they really preferred it to the regular canned chow they ate cold.
As far as I can tell, regular Science diet dry is okay. We feed our dogs a small bowl of Science diet dry in the evening but in the morning we feed them raw chicken quarters. We also buy and feed them marrow bones and knuckle bones when we can find them. We never feed them cooked bones. I don't feed raw lamb bones because I prefer to cook them and chew on them myself. We don't feed them raw port although they say that if you freeze pork for six weeks you can feed it to them. I don't do raw turkey, it is too tough.
And for treats they get sweet potato skins which they love. We eat sweet potatos two or three times a week and cook extra so the skins are often mostly potato.
They also like cooked asparagas. Our vet says they have the best teeth she's seen. And their weight and coats are great. OK, the cow dog is a tiny bit fluffy but he's on a diet... not non-veggie table scraps... OK, maybe the occasional bite of pizza... but no anchovies because although he loves them, they make him throw up.
Because my cat's smell and taste ended up being affected by the cancer, he wasn't interested in the stuff she recommended, so I figured I'd make his last weeks as happy as possible and provided him with mostly store bought canned tuna. It was about the only thing he could smell that stimulated his appetite. Canned tuna in itself is not good for cats as a regular diet, as it causes certain problems with their skin I believe, but at this point in his life, it was quality and not quantity that I was looking for.
Shoot neighborhood cats. Grind. Bake.
Source:
Dr. Bernadine Cruz, DVM
Laguna Hills Animal Hospital
Laguna Hills, CA
For a small dog like our miniature poodle (Scoobie Scooberino, the Pride of Astoria, the Triborough Wrecking-Ball), the recipe is Wal-Mart Black Angus burger mixed with rice and perhaps some yam. It makes him a powerful little dog and if you're not careful, he'll rock you like a hurricane.
This diet is a bit expensive, so if you have a big dog, good luck.
Thought you all would want to check this out.
Can you hit your doggie/cat ping lists?
When frying eggs ... do one for the dog, or not ... give it to him raw ... he don't care.
Clean out the fridge, feed the dog.
Try not to keep him inside or tied up too much .. he's a great mouser, if given the chance.
Don't panic if he eats grass ... you should try it sometime ... it ain't so bad.
Thanks for this thread. After reading there's a recall on Alpo canned, which is what my Irish Red & White Setter eats with kibble, I decided no more store bought food.
Last night I made a pot of brown rice, mixed in some cooked chicken, cheese, wheat germ, carrots and some corn oil. She loved it.
Tonight she's getting pasta with ground beef, green beans, cheese, wheat germ and olive oil.
I'm also going to check with the little country butcher down the road about getting uncooked bones for her.
I'll be reading your thread for more recipes or suggestions.
The recipes I've seen begin with "catch ten cats"
Many top breeders feed their pooches raw chicken or turkey, bones and all. Keep in mind though that if the poultry is cooked, the bones must be removed before feeding the doggie.
As for treats, there's always the mailman.