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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  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. |
Okay so the calcium supplement can be the eggshells right? And when you say you give a good mulit, whats that? Do you mean mulit vitamin? I thin what is so hard for me is like I said I cook for my kids everyday, we are plain eaters no fish, seafood, game meat, nothing...chicken pig and cow is it. they love fresh veggies and are carb-a-holics. Both are athletes so the crabs are important.
So cooking for a fur kid is no different?? I feed them the basic food groups, use a multi vitamin, use calcium and thats it??? Is Missing link or force a multi?