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		<title>By: floridarentalnews.info &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Holistic Veterinary at Vetlord</title>
		<link>http://www.vetlord.org/homemade-diets/#comment-3090</link>
		<author>floridarentalnews.info &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Holistic Veterinary at Vetlord</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: j marcotte</title>
		<link>http://www.vetlord.org/homemade-diets/#comment-1262</link>
		<author>j marcotte</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.vetlord.org/homemade-diets/#comment-1262</guid>
		<description>I have done a lot of research on this subject, and I still research everyday to be sure that I am supplying a good diet to my puppy. I have an 18 week old Norfork Terrier. The breeder started him on Eukanuba Petite Small breed. After I discovered what was actually in it and I learned to read the label, I made the decision to change him over to people food. I am not comfortable with raw diets for my puppy. Bones and such I don't want him to have unless it is a bone marrow to just chew on and he walks away from them and really could care less if it's there or not. I chose to do home cooking for him, and I did let my vet know, and was told that was good and to just make sure he is getting supplements. I still have some concerns because I am very new at this. I have prepared different recipes and then researched, and thrown out what I had prepared and gone back to the drawing board a few times. I feed variety. I use very lean muscle meat, because I don't like cheap meat. I cook with scrambled ground round, ground turkey, ground chicken, skinless, boneless chicken tenders, organ meat, liver, heart, kidney. I simmer meat in purified water and add the water to the recipe. I do not mix meats together. I scale it by the lb. 

5 oz muscle meat (beef, turkey, chicken and chunk chicken)
1 hard boiled egg chopped
2 oz of dairy (plain non fat yogurt or cottage cheese)
--added later
I also add 8 oz of other foods. I include 1 oz of grains (brown rice, oatmeat, barley)
lentals
4 oz of veggies (I use pureed baby food - stage 2 or 3) and I mix up the veggies, I feed him brocoli, peas, green beans, alittle spinach, carrots)
I add in 2 oz of carbs (mashed potato, sweet potato, winter squash)
and 1 oz of fruit- (bananna, mango, berries, unsweetened applesauce etc.)
I sometimes give him canned pure pumpkin. sometimes I add an 1/8 organic minced garlic, honey, wheatgerm, apple cider vinegar, molasses, ginger, parsley, no salt salt, cranberry sauce, ground pecans, walnuts, sunflower seeds (I don't add all of these at once, but I do use them sparingly so he gets different things) I also give him beef broth, and chicken broth. 
I add in 1/2 tsp. ground eggshell for calcium for every pound of food - (14 oz. and dairy before serving) I heat the food back up on the stove (not microwave)

I also allow him to have a raw egg yolk every 10 days (he is only 10 pounds) 
he gets fish 2 of 14 meals a week, and he has organ meat once a week. Between 1/2 and 1 oz a week.

He gets purified water to drink, and I add in a splash of milk.
He gets 1000 mg fish oil every other day.
he gets 200 IU vitamin E every 3 days
1 Pet Pro multi vitamin every day for puppies
1 probiotic every day.
In the morning he gets 1 oz added after heating yogurt and in the evening he gets 1 0z cottage cheese.

Is there anything I could be doing different or better ? He seems to doing well on this. he has solid stool, no more soupy poop. I also brush his teeth 3 or 4 times a week.

I have concerns about the muscle meat, should I be feeding him a more fatty diet? 

I also have concerns about the grains, as dogs don't need grains and they are hard to digest. my vet doesn't know alot about nutrition, and really doesn't seem concerned about what I feed him, as long as it is balanced. Does this diet sound relatively balanced or do I need to make some changes ? There is so much opinion out there as to what is right, wrong, good, bad, I am just trying to get a feel for this, am I headed in the right direction with this?

Please respond, especially if I am doing something you know will harm my baby.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have done a lot of research on this subject, and I still research everyday to be sure that I am supplying a good diet to my puppy. I have an 18 week old Norfork Terrier. The breeder started him on Eukanuba Petite Small breed. After I discovered what was actually in it and I learned to read the label, I made the decision to change him over to people food. I am not comfortable with raw diets for my puppy. Bones and such I don&#8217;t want him to have unless it is a bone marrow to just chew on and he walks away from them and really could care less if it&#8217;s there or not. I chose to do home cooking for him, and I did let my vet know, and was told that was good and to just make sure he is getting supplements. I still have some concerns because I am very new at this. I have prepared different recipes and then researched, and thrown out what I had prepared and gone back to the drawing board a few times. I feed variety. I use very lean muscle meat, because I don&#8217;t like cheap meat. I cook with scrambled ground round, ground turkey, ground chicken, skinless, boneless chicken tenders, organ meat, liver, heart, kidney. I simmer meat in purified water and add the water to the recipe. I do not mix meats together. I scale it by the lb. </p>
<p>5 oz muscle meat (beef, turkey, chicken and chunk chicken)<br />
1 hard boiled egg chopped<br />
2 oz of dairy (plain non fat yogurt or cottage cheese)<br />
&#8211;added later<br />
I also add 8 oz of other foods. I include 1 oz of grains (brown rice, oatmeat, barley)<br />
lentals<br />
4 oz of veggies (I use pureed baby food - stage 2 or 3) and I mix up the veggies, I feed him brocoli, peas, green beans, alittle spinach, carrots)<br />
I add in 2 oz of carbs (mashed potato, sweet potato, winter squash)<br />
and 1 oz of fruit- (bananna, mango, berries, unsweetened applesauce etc.)<br />
I sometimes give him canned pure pumpkin. sometimes I add an 1/8 organic minced garlic, honey, wheatgerm, apple cider vinegar, molasses, ginger, parsley, no salt salt, cranberry sauce, ground pecans, walnuts, sunflower seeds (I don&#8217;t add all of these at once, but I do use them sparingly so he gets different things) I also give him beef broth, and chicken broth.<br />
I add in 1/2 tsp. ground eggshell for calcium for every pound of food - (14 oz. and dairy before serving) I heat the food back up on the stove (not microwave)</p>
<p>I also allow him to have a raw egg yolk every 10 days (he is only 10 pounds)<br />
he gets fish 2 of 14 meals a week, and he has organ meat once a week. Between 1/2 and 1 oz a week.</p>
<p>He gets purified water to drink, and I add in a splash of milk.<br />
He gets 1000 mg fish oil every other day.<br />
he gets 200 IU vitamin E every 3 days<br />
1 Pet Pro multi vitamin every day for puppies<br />
1 probiotic every day.<br />
In the morning he gets 1 oz added after heating yogurt and in the evening he gets 1 0z cottage cheese.</p>
<p>Is there anything I could be doing different or better ? He seems to doing well on this. he has solid stool, no more soupy poop. I also brush his teeth 3 or 4 times a week.</p>
<p>I have concerns about the muscle meat, should I be feeding him a more fatty diet? </p>
<p>I also have concerns about the grains, as dogs don&#8217;t need grains and they are hard to digest. my vet doesn&#8217;t know alot about nutrition, and really doesn&#8217;t seem concerned about what I feed him, as long as it is balanced. Does this diet sound relatively balanced or do I need to make some changes ? There is so much opinion out there as to what is right, wrong, good, bad, I am just trying to get a feel for this, am I headed in the right direction with this?</p>
<p>Please respond, especially if I am doing something you know will harm my baby.</p>
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		<title>By: ohkaycomputer.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Holistic Veterinary at Vetlord</title>
		<link>http://www.vetlord.org/homemade-diets/#comment-90</link>
		<author>ohkaycomputer.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Holistic Veterinary at Vetlord</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: businessgrowingcenter.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Holistic Veterinary at Vetlord</title>
		<link>http://www.vetlord.org/homemade-diets/#comment-89</link>
		<author>businessgrowingcenter.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Holistic Veterinary at Vetlord</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: balazsdesign.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Holistic Veterinary at Vetlord</title>
		<link>http://www.vetlord.org/homemade-diets/#comment-88</link>
		<author>balazsdesign.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Holistic Veterinary at Vetlord</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.vetlord.org/homemade-diets/#comment-88</guid>
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		<title>By: softwaresolns.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Holistic Veterinary at Vetlord</title>
		<link>http://www.vetlord.org/homemade-diets/#comment-87</link>
		<author>softwaresolns.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Holistic Veterinary at Vetlord</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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