Dry food:
Nature's Recipe Lamb and Rice
About $40 for a 30 pound bag at PetSmart
All the goodies I put in:
- I buy a big pack of chicken thighs each week (about $7).
- I boil the chicken thighs for about an hour, twenty minutes.
- Once boiled, I save the broth (sometimes I add my apple cider vinegar here, but typically I put it in their water bowl daily).
- I put the cooked chicken thighs in a tupperwear container in my fridge.
- Cottage Cheese
- Flax Seed Oil
- Coconut Oil
Ares - 105 pound, male German Shepherd
Both meals:
- I pour the chicken broth in his bowl (about 1/4 cup) and add in a teaspoon of Coconut Oil, a table spoon of Cottage Cheese and a cap full of Flax Seed Oil. Depending on the glucosamine vitamins he's on, depends on what I do next (for tubed, I squeeze the dosage in - for the chewy kind I put in 3 and for pills, I hide two in cream cheese).
- Next, I take one chicken thigh and pull off the meat and put it in the bowl.
- I add 2 cups of the dry food and mix.
Onyx has the same thing recipe but rather than 2 cups of dry, she gets 1 each feeding.
Many people ask why the cottage cheese and flax seed oil. Have you heard of the Budwig diet? Flaxseed oil and cottage cheese are a great preventative way to prevent cancer! All in all, I do a lot of reading on holistic pet care and am a big advocate of tried and true methods. While I 100% side with raw feeding (I've done it, it is amazing), I don't have enough freezer space to feed 2 dogs raw.
Add-ons:
- I usually split 1 raw egg in their food once a week (it works wonders for their skin and coat)
- If I cook, they benefit. Cutting the fat off of your chicken? Boil it and save it. Trimming a steak? Give them the fat from the steak raw. No cooking needed.
- Raw Tripe is a great add-on. It is very affordable. If they have it at the grocery store, I buy it and share it with them.
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