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The Healthy Canine eCookbook: 25 Grain free Homemade Dog Food Recipes

10/26/2013

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The Healthy Canine eCookbook is a collection of nutritionally balanced and complete homemade dog food recipes. There are 25 grain free recipes that provide excellent variety, nutrition density and living enzymes for your furry family!

Each recipe requires a whole food multivitamin for dogs (a list of recommended supplements is included in this eBook) and provides owners with the information they need to feed this diet successfully.

A homemade diet is highly beneficial for dogs and is superior to commercial kibble diets. Switching to a homemade dog food diet can make your dog healthier, stronger and more resistant to disease. A homemade diet can also lengthen your dogs life and improve their quality of life as they enter their senior years.

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Celebrating Thanksgiving Day with your Dog!

10/14/2013

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Thanksgiving Day is one of the treasured holidays in which we gather with our families to celebrate, eat and enjoy each others company. Most dog owners include their furry family members in the celebrations, whether their dog is laying in front of a warm fire in the family room or enjoying some snacks off their plate from underneath the table. Everyone has their own way of celebrating the holidays, and there is no reason why it cannot be an enjoyable occasion for your dog as well!

Many dog owners want to share their homecooked food with their pets, which is why it is very important to know your dog and to know what foods are considered toxic to pets.

If your dog is enjoying the amazing benefits of a homemade dog food diet, or a raw food diet, then a little bit of your homecooked food will be fine to share. If your dog is fed a commercial kibble diet, you need to know their level of tolerance and stomach sensitivity prior to feeding homecooked food to avoid giving your dog an upset stomach.

It is extremely important to be aware of the food that is considered unsafe and even toxic for pets to consume. Do not feed anything containing onion, garlic, grapes, raisins, xylitol, artificial sweetners, raw yeast or bread dough, macadamia nuts, alcohol or avovado. Those ingredients have been deemed toxic and can harm your pet.

Depending on how big your family is and how loud these events can be, it is important to provide a safe and quiet place for your dog to sleep if they require it. Holidays can be hectic and busy for many people, and some dogs do not tolerate loud noise and large crowds very well, so be aware of your dog during these special gatherings.

For dogs that must stay home during the holidays, consider bringing them a special treat or snack to make it special for them as well! You can even make a special homemade meal that night for your canine companion using dog friendly ingredients!

Happy Thanksgiving Day from K9 Instinct!

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Angel
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The Importance of Nutrition for our Dogs

6/20/2013

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Nutrition plays a significant role in your dogs health. I say this often to everyone, as it is a personal and professional mantra of mine. Not only will your dog's diet determine how healthy they are in the long run, but it will also determine their quality of life and length of life once they've reached those senior years. If you want many long and happy years with a healthy and strong dog, focus on providing a clean and nutritious species appropriate diet.

Nutrition is so important because food is something dogs consume every single day, often multiple times a day. Food provides nutrients to the body, enzymes, energy and everything needed for the body to function properly. Without food, important body functions and processes cannot proceed and an animal cannot survive. Food, like water, is life. On that same note, it is important to understand that quality of food goes hand in hand with quality of life.

If one chooses to feed a very low quality, low protein, high grain diet where the food has been cooked to the point of being empty of nutrient (which results in manufactures having to add tons of vitamins and minerals), this will ultimately reflect in the dog. Cooking food kills living enzymes and nutrients, ultimately providing a dog with "dead" nutrition. Since the cooking process kills and destroys nutrients, vitamins and minerals must be added to the formula so that the dog can survive on the food. To put this in perspective, imagine feeding your dog a bowl of nutrient-less rice mixed with a multivitamin tablet every single meal. That type of diet does not promote health, vitality and well being.

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Eating poor quality kibble is the equivalent of us eating very unhealthy fast food every single meal of every single day. Eating such a terribly unhealthy diet will make us feel miserable, become overweight, and expose us to illness and disease. Furthermore, these foods (both fast food and poor quality kibble) are often laced with preservatives, chemicals, artificial colors and flavors, sugar (sugar facilitates the growth of tumors) and junk that collects in the body's cells. This accumulation of trash in the body will predispose dogs to cancer, disease and illness.

When we provide our dogs with a living, species appropriate diet we can offer them a clean, pure source of food that will leave no toxic residue in the body. A pure, living diet will provide the body with energy and nutrition, nothing more and nothing less, to result in smaller stool and a stronger body. Smaller stool volume means that the food being consumed is being used by the body, and there is no useless junk going in and coming right out of the body. It is worth while to compare the stool of a (poor quality) kibble fed dog to that of a raw fed dog, the difference in volume and smell is quite extreme.

Determining which diet to feed isn't always easy with the wide variety of pet foods available on the market, but my hope is that my list of recommendations which are linked to articles describing those types of diets will help you make the right choice for your furry family members!

First and foremost, a RAW FOOD DIET for dogs is the most species-appropriate diet for our dogs. A raw food diet is as pure and clean as food can come, and is full of living enzymes and nutrients to promote health and longevity.

The next best thing is a raw homemade diet, which involves only lightly cooking the meat and using raw fruit and vegetables along with a raw food supplement to boost nutrition.

A homemade diet for dogs is the next best option, providing either all cooked or half cooked half raw food combined together with a whole food supplement. Fresh, whole food ingredients are used in this type of diet, and much of the nutrition is not killed. Interested in feeding a homemade diet? Check out this free sample recipe!

Last but not least, a whole food high quality grain-free kibble diet can be highly beneficial, especially when switching from a lower quality kibble that contains grains. Make sure you are familiar with bad ingredients found in popular dog foods, and how to select the best kibble for your dog!

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Angel
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Free Homemade Dog Food Recipe: Beef and Sweet Vegetables

4/30/2013

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A homemade dog food diet is an excellent, healthy alternative to commercial kibble. Homemade dog food can help promote health and well being in your four-legged family members by providing real food, wholesome nutrition and freshness you simply cannot get with kibble diets. Making your own dog food is easier than you think, and can also be quite inexpensive! Purchasing your meat on sale and buying bagged frozen vegetables will be cheaper than buying a high quality kibble!

This free homemade dog food recipe is balanced and complete to AAFCO (Association of American Feed Control Officials) standards. A complete whole food multivitamin is ESSENTIAL to every homemade recipe to replace any nutrients lost in the cooking process. To get my entire collection of balanced homemade dog food recipes, check out my Homemade Dog Food Recipe eBook!

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Beef and Sweet Vegetables

INGREDIENTS

  • 550g boiled beef liver
  • 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 1 cup of boiled sweet potato
  • 1/2 cup of boiled green beans
  • 1/2 cup of boiled peas
  • 1/2 cup of boiled carrots
  • 1/4 cup of 2% fat cottage cheese
  • 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 1/2 scoops of Nupro Gold Supplement

DIRECTIONS
  1. Chop the beef liver into small pieces and boil until cooked. (Do not overcook!)
  2. Boil sweet potato, green beans, peas and carrots until tender.
  3. In a large bowl add the sweet potato, green beans, peas, carrots, applesauce, cottage cheese and extra virgin olive oil. Mash it all together and mix well.
  4. Add the boiled beef liver to the mash, mix it in.
  5. When the food cools, add 1 1/2 scoops of the Nupro Gold supplement.
  6. Serve!

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FEEDING GUIDE FOR THIS MEAL
  • 10 lbs - 208g a day
  • 20 lbs - 350g a day
  • 40 lbs - 589g a day
  • 60 lbs - 798g a day
  • 80 lbs - 991g a day
  • 100 lbs - 1172g a day

Want more balanced and complete recipes? Check out my eBook: Homemade Dog Food Recipes

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Angel
K9 Instinct
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The Benefits of a Homemade Diet for Dogs!

4/18/2013

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A homemade dog food diet is packed full of real wholesome meat, nutritious fruit and hearty vegetables. This whole food diet is the perfect way to provide your furry family members with real nutrition that will promote health and longevity.

Second only to a Raw Food Diet for dogs, a homemade diet is an extremely healthy alternative to often unhealthy commercial kibble diets. With a homemade dog food diet you can control the ingredients, potential allergens, additives and nutrition of your dog's food. Better nutrition means a longer, healthier life and ultimately less time your dog will spend being sick and less money you will spend at the veterinarian hospital! Making your own homemade dog food is a great opportunity to provide your dogs with a wide variety of different meat, fruits and vegetables which results in a nutrient dense diet!

A homemade dog food diet is perfect for dogs suffering from allergies, since you can control exactly what ingredients your dog is eating. Adding supplements that improve skin and coat condition while feeding ingredients that do not create allergic symptoms in your dog can alleviate allergies or eliminate symptoms completely! People often notice their dogs smell much better, as that infamous "doggy odour" often goes away when dogs are fed a clean diet. Homemade dog food can also improve a dogs' physical condition, improve symptoms of various medical conditions, promote good dental health and strengthen their immune system to ward off illness and disease!
Homemade diet recipes are created with both cooked and raw whole food ingredients, looking much like meals you yourself would eat! Homemade diet recipes use meat (muscle meat and organ meat) with processed (cooked or pureed) whole vegetables and a moist carrier (yoghurt, cottage cheese, kefir, tomato sauce, applesauce) to mix a multivitamin into. The multivitamin is of vital importance to a homemade dog food recipe because it replaces any nutrients lost during the cooking process and ensures complete and balanced nutrition. The multivitamin used in homemade dog food recipes must be a complete whole food multivitamin, as some are not balanced or complete enough to be used in a homemade diet recipe There are several excellent choices, but it is best to consult a dog nutritionist who can help you learn how to properly balance meals.

There is a list of vitamins and minerals that must be added to a cooked homemade diet in order for it to be nutritionally complete, you can learn about these nutrients in my eBook "The Healthy Canine". Since fruits and vegetables are difficult for our dogs (who are carnivores) to digest, we must process them by cooking them and/or making a fruit and veggie puree. Breaking vegetables down for our dogs helps them absorb the nutrients found within.

Get started on a homemade diet for dogs with this "try me" recipe: Beef and Sweet Vegetables

Interested in feeding your dogs a healthy homemade diet? Check out my eBook: The Healthy Canine: A Guide to Feeding a Homemade Dog Food Diet.


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