Homemade Dog Food

Trying to turn a dog into a vegetarian is just stupid. Canines need meat! Brocoli is ok in small quantities, great source of chlorophil (ever see your dog eat grass?). I use my meat grinder to grind chicken wings and cut up thigh quarters (bones and all). This provides protien, calcium, fat from the skin, and the marrow is great for my dogs. We get 10# bags of leg quarters for 48 cents a pound frozen, grind 5# at a time up with 2 cups baby carrots, 1/2 cup brocoli (bought frozen), 2 cups cooked whole oat oatmeal, 2 cups partially cooked soup beans, 4 garlic cloves and a couple of tablespoons olive oil helps lubricate the grinder (and the dog). I use an ice cream scoop to make balls of about 3/4 cup and freeze on a baking sheet, then put the balls in a gallon plastic bag in the freezer. Thaw in the microwave and mix 50/50 with their regular dry food. My cost for the raw mix is less per pound than the premium dog foods we feed. About 2 hours per week for 4 standard poodles is all it takes. If you are a chicken sh@# and afraid to feed raw, the mix can be cooked like a tray of brownies in the oven and cut into squares and frozen (don't over cook!). We've fed the raw mix for years with no problems. Your dogs may be a little gassy and runny at first, but no more than with some of the premium dry foods that we have fed them, and they adjust. Our cost for the raw mix is about 80 cents a pound. Try to buy good dog for that cheap these days! If I can get cheap canned salmon or beef I grind that into the mix for variety (or substitute for chicken). The first time I fed our pack my chicken/veggy/bean mix they all started humping each other after dinner. Before shows, we up the ratio of raw to dry food and they really show well. My only concern is what hormones and antibiotics may be in the meat, but then again, what's in the dog food you get at the store?

I DONT'T BELIEVE DOGS NEED THE GRAINS, THEY DO NOT GET IT OUT IN THE WILD AND SOME HAVE A HARD TIME WITH IT