Mandy's Dog Food Recipe

[Gina]

Mandy and the rest how lucky are your little furbabies. Gucci as some of you may know, has had liver shunt surgery over a year ago last August. She use to love home cooked foods but now I have to unfortunately keep her on the Science Diet L/D diet for the rest of her life.. I feel bad its blah and its kibbles she has gotten use to eating it, other than milk bones and occasionaly tab of cheese with her heartworm pill she doesn't get anything. The good news is she is doing well on this food.

Just curious though when I use to go on Yorkie Talk people there use to say no human food , I think if you cook healthy as Mandy receipes are they will be fine.. So I am glad your babies are enjoying the food.. Thats great...

[Marilyn]

When our dogs all got sick after they were boarded while we were on vacation, I made their food for about a month. The vet had me start with white rice and chicken broth (they all had vomiting and dirrhea). Then I added baby food, chicken and veal. Gradually moving to rice with chicken broth and chopped chicken. Then I started adding some veggies. They all got well and thrived on the food along with good veteranary care. Now, a couple of months later, I'm still feeding our oldest (16 year old) rice and chicken broth with some of her kibble mixed in. The others are back on kibble with a little rice & broth to make it a little more appealing. When I run out of kibble and need to feed them, I just use the rice, broth and chicken mixture again.

I'm thinking of going to just making my own again though. All three really thrived on the homemade food and once I got used to making it, it was no problem at all. I could not believe how much energy our older dog has now compared to before all this happened. I do like knowing what they are eating instead of worrying what is in the commercially produced food.

Mandy thank you for your thoughts. I may just get inspired and go back to cooking.

[Tink]

I've heard about feeding the chicken and rice, but with dogs the size of mine I'd be cooking full time just for them! I wish there was an easier way, because I'd love to get them off commercial food, but would need to own a chicken farm just to keep up!