Before you start making homemade dog food, it is important to know some basic tips.
For a balanced diet and an enviable shape, the dog needs, in addition to dry food, cooked food, prepared from healthy ingredients. But before you rush to offer them the soup you eat or the delicious stew you cooked for your family, it is important to know that the way the food is cooked and the ingredients used to feed the dog must follow a few important rules!
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- Cook them with meat, vegetables and starch!
- Do not offer cooked food for more than 3 days!
- What foods can the dog feed on?
- An important thing is to ensure a balanced diet for the animal
- Cooking ideas for dogs!
- Serve the food at room temperature!
Cook them with meat, vegetables and starch!
The food you cook for the four-legged friend must be nutritionally balanced. Veterinarians advise you to follow a certain pattern in the quantities and types of ingredients you use. They claim that a dog food recipe should include 40% meat, 30% vegetables and 30% starch.
Generally, you can opt for beef or turkey in homemade dog food. The most popular vegetables for dogs are carrots and rice, so use them to the fullest. Among the spices, garlic seems to be liked by more and more dogs. So use it with confidence to taste the food.
If you are just starting to serve cooked food to your dog, it is recommended to mix the food with the dry food from which it usually eats, to make the transition and adapt to the animal easier.
Do not offer cooked food for more than 3 days!
Cooked dog food is always stored in the refrigerator, but not for more than 3 days. In this way, you can avoid indigestion and other conditions caused by altering the ingredients in it.
What foods can the dog feed on?
Raw or boiled meat: boneless oregano and boneless poultry, rabbit, beef, boneless boiled fish, sour milk, yogurt, cheese, whey, boiled carrots, boiled eggs, or raw yolk 3 times a week, cereals and especially boiled rice.
Specialists recommend that those who have dogs as pets be given food based on their health, age, and body weight. Today there is a lot of information on dog food that aims to clarify what characteristics a certain type of food has and which type of animal it suits. Your dog’s health and life depend on choosing the right diet.
An important thing is to ensure a balanced diet for the animal
Some of us believe that if we have prepared a certain food cooked for our dog with our own hands, it is also holy for him. This is not the case – often home-cooked foods do not fully guarantee a balanced diet and over time lead to disease and thus reduce their lifespan.
Often homemade dog food no longer has the necessary vitamins and nutrients because it is destroyed by boiling at high temperatures. Also, cooked food may contain certain ingredients that are not good for the dog – salt, fat, sugar, onions – and that may promote serious illness. A product contraindicated for dogs is chocolate.
In general, the appetite of dogs is reduced by stress, when they suffer from heat or certain diseases.
Cooking ideas for dogs!
If you are short of ideas and don’t know what to cook for your dog, we’ll get you out of trouble with some four-legged recipe ideas:
- rice with veal and carrots
- rice with vegetables and turkey;
- pasta with cottage cheese and yogurt;
- oatmeal, carrot, barley, and chicken;
- oatmeal with yogurt.
Serve the food at room temperature!
Never give your puppy hot food. The best temperature to eat is room temperature. There is no need to reheat the food already cooked. All you have to do is take it out of the fridge for a while and let it reach room temperature before serving.
