Budget Raw Food Diet For Your Dogs (+Video)

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Budget Raw Food Diet For Your Dogs (+Video)

As pet owners, we should be concerned of the news reports about dangerous processed pet foods. And the fact is, making our own pet food is an easy way to ensure your dog is getting the best and the safest.

A raw diet for dogs consists only of uncooked fruits, vegetables, legumes, and meat. And it can be made right at home in your own kitchen, without spending a fortune, and often for less than you are currently spending on dog food.

Preparing Your Raw Diet Dog Meal

The thing to remember when preparing your raw diet is that like humans, dogs are omnivores. They need a balanced diet of meat, fiber, fruits, and vegetables. Other than that, it's simple to do.

Prepare a mixture of fruits and veggies. Since most dogs don't fancy these stuffs, the easiest way to ensure your dog eats them is to mix them into a base of ground beef. Any ground meat will do.
In this meat base meal, mix a variety of vegetables. Get the cheapest you can find e.g. the damaged bin at your grocery store. Some great veggies to include are green beans, peas, carrots, tomatoes, kale, squashes, turnips and etc.

Just like veggies, go for the cheap one when buying meat, meaning getting the meat with the highest fat content. This is good, as dogs get their energy from fats, not from carbohydrates like humans. "Low fat" diet for humans don't work for your pets because dogs need LOTS of fats to stay active and healthy.

This mixture can then be made into individual "patty" servings which you can freeze and serve as needed. The patty mixtures should be at least 25%-40% meat. For a medium-sized dog, give about the size of a large hamburger patty.

How To Serve Raw Diet

Give your dogs a two-part or a three-part diet. This helps to make your dog gets what it needs.
Feed bone-in meat in the mornings and a special mixed patty in the evenings. The meat does not need to be expensive. The cheapest you can find will do e.g. turkey wings, pig feet, turkey necks, and other cheap cuts are great.

Give according to your pet's size and age. More if he's s large/older, lesser if he's smaller/young. Raw bones are softer and easier for your dog to chew, and the calcium in the bones is good for them.

Also keep your eye on your pet if it's the first time you're giving him bone-in-meat food. Some dogs may get so excited that they may just gobble the whole thing and choke. Once he is used to getting meat regularly, he will take his time to enjoy it.

Feed the specially mixed patty daily in the evenings. Use the size guideline mentioned above on how much to give.

There are many different ways of preparing raw diet for your pets. What we've talked about here is only a sample of what you can do. You can get creative by doing it differently and have fun doing it at the same time.

Watch the 5-minute below by Dr Andrew Jones and get more ideas on raw food diet for your pets;

Once your dog on the raw diet for a while, you will notice that he is healthier and more active. Best of all, you can get all this done at only a dollar or two per day depending on your frugality. That's a lot of savings in year compared to the usual processed dog food you spend on.

You get to save money and your furry friend stays healthy! I'd say that's a real good double-deal, don't you think?

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