Home cooked diet for yorkie

[BabyGirl Rosie]

Just want to add one little thing here. I just started home cooking for my girls. The home cook recipe is not something that is just thrown together and should come from a nutritionist. Also, the meals I am making are being put together by using accurate measurements (to the gram) and a supplement is also included to ensure they get the proper vitamins and such. I think there is much more to it at first than people realize. After a while, I think it will be a piece of cake. I notice that you are using percentages. Based on my recipe they seemed a little high. Please make sure that you are giving the proper amounts and all the necessary ingredients.

[107barney]

Originally Posted by betterthanlife

So-called "experts" are in this for financial gain, and their advice is geared towards their best interest. Read the latest research on the value of colonoscopies and mammography. The so-called experts will be out of business if enough intelligent people start to heed sound advice.

Just because a person may not agree with not feeding a dog commercial dog food, this does not erase the dangers of it. These issues must be separated. We must think critically and logically. Once it is established that commercial dog food has considerable issues, then one must brainstorm different solutions. One of those, is educating yourself, and making your own food. Done properly, it is a viable solution to commercial pet-food poison.

I think critical and logical thinking is a good idea. My critical and logical thinking was to defer the critical and logical thinking to someone with a DVM, PhD and board certification in nutrition. No matter how much reading I do, I will never have the lifetime of experience and knowledge of these people in this area without a major change in career. As for financial gain, I actually find the services to be too cheap, and I think I should pay her more for saving my Daisy's life. She doesn't even charge me for all the annoying emails I send either about Daisy and the boys.

[BabyGirl Rosie]

Originally Posted by 107barney

I think critical and logical thinking is a good idea. My critical and logical thinking was to defer the critical and logical thinking to someone with a DVM, PhD and board certification in nutrition. No matter how much reading I do, I will never have the lifetime of experience and knowledge of these people in this area without a major change in career. As for financial gain, I actually find the services to be too cheap, and I think I should pay her more for saving my Daisy's life. She doesn't even charge me for all the annoying emails I send either about Daisy and the boys.

[Yorkiedaze]

Originally Posted by chachi

Now Ive given my dogs people things like a piece of white meat turkey or chicken etc and Ive never had a problem either. But on here Ive seen where someone just gave their dog a piece of white meat turkey and it have a pancreatic attack. Or someone give their dogs people food for years and they were fine and then all of a sudden they have a pancreatis episode. So not all dogs have the same digestive tolerence. I used to be one to tell people on here a little turkey isnt gonna hurt them but no more

Could be that some of the things they fed were too fatty or greasy. I've even read where some have given their dogs pork of all things, sausage and the like. I don't think feeding a balanced diet of lean red meat or wild game mixed with some rice and veggies would do any harm, then some cottage cheese, yogurt, cooked eggs, cheese, peanut butter, oatmeal cooked in a broth, once in awhile is going to hurt any dog. I've had a lot of dogs of my own and quite a few fosters and have never had any problems in giving them home cooked food.
Could also be someone fed their dogs something they shouldn't have and they didn't know it. Maybe a neighbor threw something, not so good, over the fence for them, maybe a family member or friend gave them something they thought would be ok. You just never know.
Even chickens you buy in the stores are full of fat due to what they are fed to fatten them super fast for selling.
Home cooked meals are still the healthiest and safest way to feed your babies. However, if you have really large dogs, that would be quite expensive but adding some "real" food to their kibble would be better than kibble alone.

[laurahill]

Originally Posted by andreag08

We are feeding Bear a similar home cooked diet, meat (mostly chicken)
, fish occasionally ( he likes salmon)
,veggies, fruits . . He is getting one multivitamin a day.

Dogwell chicken jerky for treat ( the only treat he will eat) .
Raw Goat milk for dogs a couple of times a week, he loves it.


Bear is two years old and so far doing great! Perfect health, shiny hair, white theeth, no alergies . ..

In my personal opinion, and I am not a nutrition expert, any home cooked organic fresh food is better then the best kibble.

We are home cooking for us every day so we just take his part out before we add seasonings .

Hey,I think this is a great option....Thanks for sharing!!

[Harrysmum]

Originally Posted by Yorkiedaze

AWWWWW thank you so much. You know, I truly do believe YT has "THE" best looking Yorkie kids of any site!! Wish there was a way that ALL of us could have one big meet-up!

Oh, so do I...... If ever you're all in the UK at the same time.....?!!? Sally + Harry x