[Tiger's Mom]

Originally Posted by bosslady

I do cook for my 3, Not particuarly because I know it is healthier but because they are VERY picky eaters and I could not find a dog food they really liked and would eat very well.
We feed them Biljac frozen dog food and they will eat it sometimes.
I boil a whole chicken, take the meat off the bone and mix it with cooked rice. I add some vegetables like peas and carrots and mix a little broth with it and they love it. It really doesn't take me that long and it lasts me quite a few days. About twice a week, I scramble some eggs for them and add a little cheese. Sometimes I will give them weiners for a snack. I cut them up in small pieces. I also put spam or some other kind of meat in their eggs sometime. If I don't have time to cook a chicken, I make them hamburger and rice.I also give them yogurt and cottage cheese. They like pieces of cheese as a snack. It seems as if they get tired of the same thing all the time and won't eat it as well. They do seem to like a variety. That is probably because of the way I have always given them different things. I have had dogs in the past who seemed perfectly satisfied with the same thing every day.

I try to keep dry dog food out all the time so they can eat a little at a time and help their teeth. THey don't eat it very well though. I bought a new kind last night. It was rice and lamb and I poured it in a bowl and they turned up their nose. I picked up the bowl went into the family room and sat down and hand fed them and two of them ate quite a bit.

My three are so spoiled. My husband says they eat better than he does.
Actually I like to cook. My husband is not in good health. He is a diabetic so I have to cook anyway

I have always been known as a very good cook and I love to cook and see people eat and enjoy it. Maybe that is why I don't mind cooking for my furbabies.

I am not criticizing anyone who gives theirs dog food. I would give mine more if they would eat it better.

I too love to cook and I am known amongst friends to be a great one and I would love to pamper my Tiger too but my dilemma is when I go on vacation and cannot include Tiger in the trip. As it is, I don't give him plain Innova kibble anymore. I have branched out and expanded his meal to include crushed 100% preservative free beef frozen liver and cottage cheese, or cut-up apples or mangoes . . . am continiously experimenting on what he likes so I can add to his plain kibble. He will definitely be boarded though (through my vet) when I travel and wonder how he would be with just the kibble, but I doubt if they will give the extra time to make his meal this complicated. Can you share tips on what you do when you do have to go out of town and cannot bring your furbabies?