I made some last Sunday and added another egg and some more peanut butter. They were much easier to cut than before. Our most recent addition had never had them before but she loves them now. Everytime she hears that can open she comes running into the kitchen.
Well, I've made two batches of these, and my snob of a dog won't eat them. Dirty little bast.
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Nope, raw = uncooked.
The afforementioned dirty little bast has some health issues when we adopted him as a puppy. Skin problems, digestion problems, and horribly undernourished, so we were advised to avoid giving him kibble or other store bought dog food, and make our own. It actually worked out cheaper (he gets kibble now, albeit high end stuff mixed 2:1 with Nature's Balance rolls) than store bought food - although it did turn him into (as mentioned) a food snob.
ok now how do you think these would handle being shiped. i am in the military aqnd my dog lives with my parents now i just dont have the hart to take her from 10 arcers of fredom to my little back yard. but i would def like to make some for her. i no she likes spent grain( i dont no much she wont eat) in clouding a yogert lid and a sock.
My dogs love these things more than any other treat out there. I'll have to do a test to see if they will go for meat over these though.
I love the dog food debates though, they are hilarious. Precisely the reason I don't visit any dog forums anymore. I couldn't handle all the "I'm a better dog owner than you, because they eat better than my kids" crowd. Sorry, not spending $50 for a 10lb bag of food for an animal that will eat 3 week old unidentifiable carcass and cat rockets for dessert. More power to you if you do though!
My dogs love these things more than any other treat out there. I'll have to do a test to see if they will go for meat over these though.
I love the dog food debates though, they are hilarious. Precisely the reason I don't visit any dog forums anymore. I couldn't handle all the "I'm a better dog owner than you, because they eat better than my kids" crowd. Sorry, not spending $50 for a 10lb bag of food for an animal that will eat 3 week old unidentifiable carcass and cat rockets for dessert. More power to you if you do though!
I cooked better for my wife and I than I feed my dog... and the Natural Balance food is $40-45 for the 28lb bag IIRC, and you can ALWAYS find coupons for $5!
My dogs love these things more than any other treat out there. I'll have to do a test to see if they will go for meat over these though.
I love the dog food debates though, they are hilarious. Precisely the reason I don't visit any dog forums anymore. I couldn't handle all the "I'm a better dog owner than you, because they eat better than my kids" crowd. Sorry, not spending $50 for a 10lb bag of food for an animal that will eat 3 week old unidentifiable carcass and cat rockets for dessert. More power to you if you do though!
Well, when I used to make food for my mutt, I'd get one of those four packs of ground turkey from Costco (something like $12) and maybe the same money's worth of whatever veggies were on sale at the local store, plus a few cups of cooked brown rice. Basically, I'd lob all the raw veggies (broccoli, zucchini, sweet potato, spinach... like I said, whatever was on sale) into the food processor, put them in a giant pot (my old 5 gallon aluminium boil kettle, actually!) along with a little bit of beef stock, cooked that for a few minutes, let it cool, mixed in the rice and the meat, then just portioned it all up. A batch of food would last him about three weeks, and cost maybe $25. (He's a 55lb dog, used to get about a cup and a half of it a day, mixed with a little kibble).
*shrugs*
Guess I don't see it as any different than baking your own dog treats? I don't do it anymore, mainly because it was a pain in the backside and time consuming (not so much the making it, but the parcelling it out and storing it sucked), it turned my dog into a picky little fecker, and it kinda stank.
You should be careful when putting your dog on a BARF diet. Raw meats you buy packaged in the grocery store are meant to be cooked and therefore can contain parasites and bacterias that can cause salmonellosis among other things which normally are killed in the heating process. The longer the meat has been packaged the higher the risk. Dogs and cats are not immune to e.coli and salmonella, though tests suggest they may have better resistance than humans. The meat should be the freshest possible and thawed in the refrigerator, not out on the counter.
I raised my golden on a bones and raw food diet for the first year of his life and he was perfectly fine. I was very particular about what meat I fed him though. I gave it up mainly because of the time involved and the cost.
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i just dont have the hart to take her from 10 arcers of fredom to my little back yard. but i would def like to make some for her. i no she likes spent grain( i dont no much she wont eat) in clouding a yogert lid and a sock.
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