Why Not Making Your Own Dog Food?

You must know how expensive dog food cost if you own a dog. I was absolutely surprised at the dramatic price increase when I went to the local food market to buy some dog food for my dog. The price increase was so high that I had to get other dog food for my dogs other than my normal. Now I did manage to find a cheaper brand, but for a forty pound bag it was still over twenty dollars. That make me to think about other ways to feed my dog that will cost less.

After I thought about it some I decided to look into making my own dog food. Now granted making your own dog food can be a little bit more time consuming, but a lot of great recipes are available. I know that my dogs like the food that I make better than the bag food that I can purchase and even the can food that is available.

Not only that when you make your own dog food you will know what the ingredients are. That is the other item that I found when I started looking at the bags of dog food. I found that I was unable to determine what the label meant on some of the ingredients. Now granted some of the labels are very straight forward, but some of them are so confusing you have to look on the internet to figure out what it means. Some of the studies that are available would probably shock you.

Finding the dog food recipes to save yourself some money is very easy to do. I know I purchased a couple of books that actually give the recipe and include information on how you can prep the food to get your dog the proper calorie intake and fat content. Now if you are breeding your dog or you have a pregnant female they require a different type of food, so you would want to check with your vet or find a book specific to that problem.

Here i recommend my friend John's "245 homemade dog food recipes", you will get useful information from him: http://offto.net/home_cooked_dog_food/.