A species appropriate raw diet is one of the best things you can do to ensure a long and healthy life for your pup. Make sure you do your research ... buy a book (Dr Tom Lonsdale's Work Wonders is great), join a yahoo user group (rawfeeding or RawMeatyBones), make sure you check out the myths link below too.
Raw feeding is not just meat - your dog will need about 70-80% meat, 10-15% bone and 10-15% offal/organ. You can add some table scraps if you want but no more than about 5% of the total diet. The amount to feed is about 2-3% of expected adult weight per day - with pups this is split over several meals. My 16.5kg stafford gets between 400-450 grams.
As for training treats, liver is really easy to dry in the oven. There will be web sites explaining how to do this. For training rewards I use a combination of different livers and dried meats cut into little cubes. Cheese and cabonossi occasionally goes down well too!! This way each time I give a treat it is something different out of the bag.
Have fun with your pup!!Raw, homemade dog food and dog treats?
Google "silk balls" it's a great raw (or cooked) recipe that will shine him up and give him tons of energy. You can use it to supplement, treat, or feed him entirely.. depending on his current condition.
whoops!! It's satin balls.. here's the site.
http://www.njboxers.com/satin-balls-reci鈥?/a>
you could search it online on google or ask.comRaw, homemade dog food and dog treats?
Here is a dog treat cook book online for free:
http://www.i-love-dogs.com/dog-food-reci鈥?/a>
My dog loved these ones!:
http://www.bullwrinkle.com/Assets/Recipe鈥?/a>
Here's some more treat ideas:
http://www.bullwrinkle.com/Assets/Recipe鈥?/a>
Dogs love peanut butter!
And white chocolate is competely harmless to them
so you can get fancy with it and dip it's dog bone biscuits in it.
Also for dog food, for something healthy buy beef like the steak and chop it up in bite sized portions and mix in veggies like carrots and peas with his regular puppy chow.
He'll love it and it's healthy for him.
Have fun!
Please don't poison your dog! Talk to your vet about it; he'll tell you why this is a bad idea.Raw, homemade dog food and dog treats?
I feed my dogs Sam and Bud homemade dog food. I have many recipes at my blog - http://www.homemadehealthypetfood.com
I feed my dog (or will be feeding him, once we get our chest freezer--he's a big boy) and cats a raw diet. I applaud loudly the poster above! Make sure you do your research. Most places say you should strive for between 50 and 65 (some up to 70) percent "raw meaty bones"--chicken wings, necks, rabbit necks, canned mackerel, etc for a guy his size. My guy will be based on turkey necks and chicken backs, as he is around 50 lbs. You should then add in additional boneless muscle meat (heart is really good, tongue, boneless ground meat, etc--some places say 30%, some say 10), organs (liver and kidney are good--my one cat goes nuts for chicken lungs, though, most agree 5-10%), and vegetables (some debate on this, but most agree that feeding green tripe once or twice every 10 days gives organ meat and vegetables). He should get raw eggs sometimes too.
In all, balance over time (try and get the percentages over a 7 or 10 day time span--so if he gets two meals of totally raw meaty bones in one day, it's not a big deal, as long as he gets his organs and veggies/tripe in the next few days). Do google searches for "raw diet for dogs" "Biologically Appropriate Raw Food", Dr. Ian Billinghurst (who is heavy on the muscle meat), etc.
Some people are afraid of raw and cook the meat for their dogs. This is not ideal, but way better than 99.9% of all commercially available dog foods. If/when you switch to raw food, do not feed raw foods and kibbles in the same meal (kibbles take a lot longer to digest, and having raw meat sitting in your dog's intestines for longer than it is meant to can cause some issues sometimes).
Also, in terms of feeding pups, look up specific quantities--adult dogs should be fed around 2-3% of their ideal weight, but pups need way more than that to grow! Most places recommend weighing your dog weekly or daily to determine how much to feed (and with a small dog, that's easy--just step on a scale holding him, then not holding him).
Good luck!
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