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Originally Posted by diggy4  Okay is it just me or is anyone else scared of homecooking?? Not that homecooking is bad, I want to do it very bad, but I am very afraid I will screw it up and not give them enough of something. I cook all the time for my skin kids, with total confidence in their diets so why can't I just do what your doing for Marcel?? Do you have to supplement? Does all homecooking require supplements? It sounds like you are sooo confident and got such great advice Your doing sucha great thing for Marcel...I hope it all works wonderfully for you and lil fur butt cutie pie MARCEL!
oh by the way I STILL stop everytime you post and stare at that lil face!!! CUTE CUTE CUTE |
Marcel has a crush on you too, so stare all you want!
I know exactly what you're saying above! I felt the same way when I started about 5 mths ago. Finally, just about a month or so ago - my common sense knocked and said "is your own human diet an exact science?" and "do animals in the wild have an exact diet every day" and I thought "duh".
It finally dawned on me that, like us humans, dogs have ideal nutrition requirements and if we have an understanding of what they are - we should be able to fulfill those requirements within some basic guidelines. Sure, kibble may contain a pretty good spectrum of ingredients - but it would truly be the same as if someone put all of our "human" ingredients in a bowl, mixed, put in a bunch of additives and preservatives, baked, and gave us kibble. Ya know?
It did take me a good while to feel good about homecooking. The supplementing really scared me. But basically, if you have a good multi (I use one that has muti vit/mineral, EFAs, digestive enzymes, probiotic) AND a calcium supplement - you're set.
Now, if you feed RAW, you usually don't supplement at all bc they're getting all of the needed nutrients, including calcium from the bones.