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02-06-2007, 01:16 PM | #1 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Fort Hood, Texas
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| By products!!! YUCK!!! Need help on cooking for my baby!! Who cooks for their yorkies? Tinkerbell has been having some problems with her skin, itching and dryness. Well I am going nuts and trying to figure out what's wrong with her, I read somewhere that most food have stuff in them that can make our pets sick. I am trying to make sure my babies get the best, we started on the Missing Link and now I want to start cooking for them. Yesterday I gave them chicken breast, they loved it. How do you all cook ground beef?? Is it safe for them?
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02-06-2007, 01:34 PM | #2 |
My2Pearls Chelsey & Chanel YT Donator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: N
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| Yes i give my girls ground beef, ground veal, or chicken. I cook it, mix it with brown rice, brocolli, and carrots, black eye peas, and lentils. I add a tspoon of fat free yogurt, and omega 3 - 6 and 9 to their dinner. For beakfast they get, 1/4 hard boiled egg, cooked oats, and cottage cheese. During the day i give them fruit, or yogurt mixed with fruit. Chanel used to have bad tear stains, i find that since i cook for them, it's 90% less |
02-06-2007, 01:37 PM | #3 | |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Fort Hood, Texas
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Thank You so much for the info, I just started cooking for them so I am a little lost I dont want to feed them something that will only make them sick. I just want to do everything to make her better. What kind of yogurt?? I bought plain yogurt because I have no idea what kind, Is regular yogurt ok? like strawberry or flavored yogurt?
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02-06-2007, 01:44 PM | #4 |
My2Pearls Chelsey & Chanel YT Donator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: N
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| I use plain yogurt, and add fresh fruit like small pieces of banana, or apple. When i first started cooking i was lost too, but once you get the hang of it, and figure out different recipes you will be fine, i forgot to add in my previous post, that i also put fresh garlic in their food. I cook a big batch, put their daily portions in zip lock bags, and freeze them. I warm it up a little, and add the vitamins, and yogurt. |
02-06-2007, 02:09 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: SW Fl
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| My girls had scrambled egg & rice for breakfast. Lunch they had peas & cooked carrots W/ apples. Dinner baked chicken & green beans. I just do different foods different days. I don't feed a lot of red meat. I don't know if it's that good for them.
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02-06-2007, 02:35 PM | #6 |
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| I've been cooking for Sissy now for over 6 months. She gets yogurt in the morning (Dannon Activia, vanilla flavor, 1/4 container) mixed with her Missing Link. Just make sure whatever yogurt you get does not contain any artificial sweeteners. During the day she eats a little quality kibble and bites of fruit. For dinner she gets boiled chicken breast, brown rice, sweet potato, asparagus, carrots and spinach. I don't mess the the mix cause it works well for us and she likes it. Make sure your chicken is breast only with no fat or skin and it should be boiled. Don't using any kind of seasoning. You can use ground beef, but it needs to be very lean and in limited quantity. You can also use veal, venison, and salmon. I don't add garlic because of the mixed information out there stating too much garlic can harm them and many of the kibbles and treats already have garlic. I make a batch up and then put in 2C freezer containers. I thaw a container and give her about 1/4 C for dinner, heated for 20 secs in the microwave. A container will last almost a week. Good luck!!!
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02-06-2007, 02:46 PM | #7 |
Lovin' 2 Girls Donating Member | Great! The "best" for your babies is to feed them a species-appropriate, RAW meat and meaty bone diet. Their systems are not made to digest cooked foods, and they do not need veggies.
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02-06-2007, 03:01 PM | #8 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Montreal, Canada
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| Keep in mind that what is good for you is good for them, give cooked and raw vegetables, red meat twice a week, salmon once a week, add a bit of olive oil to their food, brown rice...plain yogurt cheese ....I have been cooking for Royce since he was 3 months old .. |
02-06-2007, 05:50 PM | #9 | |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Fort Hood, Texas
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02-06-2007, 06:49 PM | #10 | |
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I realize that this is a seemingly foreign thought; but, it really isn't. Many, many people are returning to RAW diets for their beloved pets, as they've realized that commercial and cooked foods are causing so many problems with their canine and feline pets. Is it a bit hard to get used to? Sure - at first. But, the results are: - Watching a pet eat his/her food with gusto, instead of the pickiness reported in so many toy breeds. -Strong, white teeth - no tooth brushing necessary. NO doggie breathe! -A marked improvement in allergies due to fillers in commercial dog 'food' -Marked improvement in symptoms of arthritis in senior pets -A marked improvement in coat texture and sheenI have been feeding RAW for four years, to my now 13y/o Mozart (mix Shih-tzu/Maltese/Silky) and can testify to seeing positive results in him in each of the above areas. He got very ill in his 8th year - throwing up several times a day, almost daily on Vet-prescribed 'food', and then I started cooking for him out of desperation. He was still throwing up on the cooked food (chicken, rice and carrots) Dogs are not meant to eat rice! Cooking the meat just took all the nutrients out for him. The vet wanted to do "exploratory surgery", but I just couldn't let them cut him open without having a clue as to what they were looking for. In desperation, I switched him to RAW. Was I afraid? Yes. Did he take to it right away? No. But, we had no choice. It was horrifying to watch him wretch and wretch until he was so weak. Mo is into his 13th year now, and I truly believe a species appropriate diet saved his life. The vet can't believe his teeth for a dog his age - she hasn't recommended a cleaning. His last weigh-in was 28lbs; but it's muscle, not fat. I know the vet staff is watching Abigail to see how she fares on this diet, and that's OK. So am I .
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02-06-2007, 06:58 PM | #11 | |
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02-06-2007, 07:10 PM | #12 | |
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You're welcome for the info . As you can see, I'm 'sold' on prey model diet for our pooches. If I weren't I wouldn't risk putting myself out here for lashings - which, I must say I haven't gotten here, on YT. I think everyone knows I love my dogs, and I've come to love the ones I see here, daily. I want them all to live to a ripe, healthy old age with us!
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02-06-2007, 07:27 PM | #13 | |
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Onions and garlic are other dangerous food ingredients that cause sickness in dogs, cats and also livestock. Onions and garlic contain the toxic ingredient thiosulphate. Onions are more of a danger. Pets affected by onion toxicity will develop haemolytic anaemia, where the pet's red blood cells burst while circulating in its body. At first, pets affected by onion poisoning show gastroenteritis with vomiting and diarrhoea. They will show no interest in food and will be dull and weak. The red pigment from the burst blood cells appears in an affected animal's urine and it becomes breathless. The breathlessness occurs because the red blood cells that carry oxygen through the body are reduced in number. The poisoning occurs a few days after the pet has eaten the onion. All forms of onion can be a problem including dehydrated onions, raw onions, cooked onions and table scraps containing cooked onions and/or garlic. Left over pizza, Chinese dishes and commercial baby food containing onion, sometimes fed as a supplement to young pets, can cause illness. Onion poisoning can occur with a single ingestion of large quantities or with repeated meals containing small amounts of onion. A single meal of 600 to 800 grams of raw onion can be dangerous whereas a ten-kilogram dog, fed 150 grams of onion for several days, is also likely to develop anaemia. The condition improves once the dog is prevented from eating any further onion While garlic also contains the toxic ingredient thiosulphate, it seems that garlic is less toxic and large amounts would need to be eaten to cause illness. | |
02-06-2007, 07:47 PM | #14 |
Lovin' 2 Girls Donating Member | "By-products" Oh! And, speaking of 'by-products': since raw meat, bone and organs are more easily digested, the dog gets more complete nutrition and fuel from his diet - LESS WASTE! What comes out is much less in ratio to what went in , and it's nothing like the poo of kibble-fed pooches. Prey model diets generate less waste, and it dries to a white lump, that crumbles to a chalk-like biodegradeable powder. Unlike the poop of kibble-fed pooches that is gooey and sits forever, preserved by all the non-degradeable materials in the dog 'food'.
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02-12-2007, 11:11 AM | #15 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Maryland
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| It works!!!!!! We switched Mitzi (10 y.o.) to raw food as described about 5 days ago and she has already less problems with her arthirtis, the itching and much more energy! Today she was running and jumping like a young pup where she used to trott calmly along... Yay!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the info! |
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