I made some really awesome (from what my dogs tell me) dog food this morning. I cooked 3 cups of brown rice with the left over gravy from the turkey and 5 cups of water. I cooked these on high in the micorwave for 6 minutes and then cooked it at 50 percent power for 45 minutes. After that I added 3 cups of chopped turkey (the parts I don't want in our soup) and heated it on high in the microwave for 4 minutes. Then I added a quarter cup of whole wheat flour (to give it the consistency of canned dog food), adding it one tablespoon and stirring it. Then I put it back in the microwave for 5 minutes, took it out, stirred it and let it cool for the dogs. ...well my dogs are inpatient so I actually stirred in ice cubes so it was ready for them faster and I could cease the loud barking and painful scratching
thats just not practical for us.. besides the fact i consider that feeding them your leftovers with some flour thrown in. we have 2 dogs over 100 pounds. they would eat the whole damn turkey in a day.. our dogs go through a 50 pound of dog food plus all our table scraps and a egg a day in 10 days. there is NO way it would be practical to attempt to feed them what you are considering "homemade dog food" every day... when we do feed them "home made dog food" 1 meal consists of, 3 cups uncooked rice(whatever that equals cooked), 3 cups meat,a pound of leftover veggies, and mix it all up with a quart or so of homemade gravy.. thats 1 meal for them.. they eat 2 times a day... so ya see,its just not practical for us....
we were outta food, she did this while I was getting tires and shopping for food fer us and them. I dont think its practical even for our houshold with its two small dogs. But they loved it and she loved making it, so everybody wins.
oh yeah i hear ya,, usually the only time ours gets a meal like that is when we are outta dog food, or we just have to many leftovers . maybe 1 time a week.. i see articles an web sites of people feeding there dogs nothing but "homemade dog food",, but man,may as well have two teenage boys in the house for us... we figure it would ad 50 bucks a week to our grocery bill if we went to a home cooked diet for them.. but yeah,, i know they do love it when they get it...
hhb, I don't doubt that. For the better part of a year, we made the following for our 2 dogs (about 50 pounds each) and it would feed them for a week: 4 cans of corn 4 cans of sliced potatoes 4 cans of peas 4 cans of sliced carrots 2 pounds (8 cups) of brown rice 6 pounds of hamburger 2 cups of oatmeal I would split this up into 2 batches, and it cost about $20 a week. Not horrible, but I think it was missing some nutrients as one of my dogs skin issues got worse, and while the LOVED the food, my other dog would always supplement her food with cat kibble. The chinese dogfood recall, as well as other things, convinced us to switch over, but I just found a new food by Science Diet that is made with foods that are completely from USDA inspected facilities and while it's $50 for i think 40pounds, it should feed them for about 2.5 weeks. Much better, they are getting adjusted to it now.
figured i was about right. logic tells me that if your 100 pounds worth of dogs cost 20 a week to feed,my 235 pounds of dogs would cost a minimum of 40 bucks a week to feed in that manner.. an i love my dogs but i would never spend 50 bucks for a 40 pound bag of food, that would last my dogs 8,,,maybe 10 days. like i said, we feed them high protien ration,each get a egg a day which costs us nothing as we raise our own chickens, an they get table scraps.. i feel its a balanced diet for them an it runs us about 20 bucks every 10 to 12 days..
The dog food recall freaked me out too. We feed our dogs Nutro Max and it is USDA approved. Sometimes they get Newman's organic dog food too if have time to go to Wild Oats during the week. Our dogs eat a lot too and it gets expensive, but it's worth it to me. Also, in the long run it will be cheaper because they will not need to go to the vet as much when they are older. They are good dogs and have brought nothing but joy and protection into my life. They deserve the best.-edit-that was me lynsey-I forgotto log Andy out.
Rosie gets gravy with her food whenever we have it (at least once a week) and she's never had any problems from it. Anyhoo, lynsey and andy, your dogs are so incredibly cute!!
