Can you feed dogs cooked meals

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Just given DDog her first Sunday dinner and she loved it and had leftovers too i made sure it was bone, onion, salt etc free for her i was just wondering if this could be done with other meals we eat a very meat veg diet no much else so i was thinking of just making her her own little stew or soup or whatever we are having tailored to her nutritional needs has anyone done this ? or is it a total no go if so why is it ? we have tried the raw meat and she won't eat it but cooked meat veg she adores TIA

For her complete health - I'd say not really, not just that. My pup has a very delicate stomach and the vet recommended to keep her away from commercial dog food for now as she doesn't tolerate it.
Her diet is mostly fresh chicken/pork/beef with a small ratio of rice/buckwheat/ barley plus some puppy biscuits but I get a mix of all the extra vitamins and minerals she needs from the vet to add to her food.
I also add cooked carrots and broccoli sometimes too.
It can be a pain in the ass to make sure all her portions are nutritionally correct.

my dog is the same with the upset stomach and sensitivity. i eat all those things myself already so i wouldn't mind setting her aside some of my food measuring it all out etc im just wondering how to go about it to keep her in good condition which her current rubbish from a tin and dried pellets aren't i also feel bad giving her that gunk while we eat actual food

how long did you try the raw meat for? It sometimes takes dogs a little time to adjust. You could try it again and just flash fry chicken/meat for a couple of minutes and then giving it in a meal. It changes the texture of the meat and it might be more appetising to your dog.

Also, if your dog is hungry enough, she will eat!

I don't think it would be nutritionally good enough to feed cooked meat in the long run.

You can buy veggiedog supplement from veggie pets.co.uk.

Sprinkle it over your cooked meal and voila! Balanced dog food.
:)

Ps, don't be put off by the name.

There are probably other dog supplements available but this is the only one I am aware of that turns any scrap into a balanced meal

Every time i prepare meat usually chicken or beef i give her a piece to chew same with vegetables she eats vegetables but just licks the meat and backs away plus ive since read feeding raw is extremely dangerous and can cause poisoning and harvard studies recently proved its better to cook for your dog than feed them a raw or processed dog food diet

Depends on the dog.

Mine get pretty much anything that is left over and it seems to make no difference to them at all. They are labradoodles and have very much a lab attitude to food in that they eat anything and everything at 900 miles an hour. They can usually be found hanging round the kitchen except Ddog3 who unfortunately was taught by DS how to sit on a chair at the table

I feed raw and respectfully disagree that cooked is better.
My dog is the picture of health since going raw.
Before raw she spent the first year of life extremely sick.

A growing number of vets advocate raw food and most people who have gone raw are full of stories of the benefits it's had for their dogs.

Dangerous my arse.

Where did you read that raw food was dangerous? What do you think dogs have been eating for the last few thousand years? It wasn't lovingly prepared cooked dinners.

But it sounds to me like you know your dog and it's sensitivities and you are giving this careful thought so I'm sure the food you are preparing is fine.

Its a harvard study i read in online in a document about dog feeding raw food has high risks of killing and poisoning dogs they have adapted from a few thousand years ago to eating cooked foods im sure my ancestors ate raw meat in the cave times doesn't mean ill go to my fridge and chomp on a raw fillet of chicken

The founder of lilys kitchen has released a book for cooking for her dog so ill buy that next week and go through it she is also totally against raw and mentions the exact same harvard study

I respectfully disagree.
For a start, people aren't actually designed for eating meat!
Or at least large quantities of it.

People have a long, coiled intestine for figesting plant stuff coupled with teeth designed for chewing.
People have very low resistance for bacteria found in animal based foods like salmonella, E. coli etc.

Dogs have a very short intestine, this is because they are designed to eat and digest raw meat.
Their stomach acid is a hell of a lot stronger also, this, coupled with a short intestine protects the dog from bacteria in the meat.
Their teeth can only crunch, they can't physically chew.
Dogs, technically, are carrion eaters.
They are designed to eat rotting meat.
These are the same animals that eat poo, weeks old meat buried in the garden, fresh raw meat is very unlikely to harm a healthy dog!

Strange how the founder of a company selling steamed cooked dog food is against feeding raw!

I honestly think you should do some more research on raw feeding!

I'd be interested in a link to that study if you've got one.

Considering the crap my dog eats ( literally!) I am not going to worry about the mix of raw food and kibble she has been thriving on for years (nearly 9 and gets mistaken for a juvenile!) But, unlike your dog, she has the constitution of an ox.

As I said previously you know your dog best and what suits one dog won't suit another.

Murphy has a cast iron gut. He can eat anything and change foods at the drop off a hat. He's almost 18 months now and I've known him to have the runs exactly twice. He does get a Sunday lunch, and if there is anything interesting going spare like a potato or a few bits of cooked veg, or even the drains from a tin of salmon he'll have those thrown in with his dry food.

One of our previous dogs had end stage liver disease with a poor prognoses, I put him on a home cooked diet of food designed to promote liver heath such as asparagus and parsley. It took me hours to cook and tub up his meals weekly but he was very worth it. His two week lifespan became nine months and the vet so impressed with his liver function turnaround she still uses copies of the diet we designed now.

I did it for him out of necessity, I wouldn't do it by choice. The ingredients for his particular diet were expensive and to be honest standing and cooking them all weekly was a drain both on my time and my finances. Had he thrived on the specialist liver diets I wouldn't have considered home cooking so for a healthy dog, no, I wouldn't do it.

www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/ResourcesforYou/AnimalHealthLiteracy/ucm373757.htm

Please look at this website for more info on raw feeding dogs dinner

and join Raw Feeding UK group on FB.

Many, many examples of successful raw feeding. I'd be interested to see who funded the research carried out by the FDA. I can't see any info on that - wonder if it was a large kibble producing business?

I know my dog better than anyone else and she hates raw meat my op asks for advice on cooking meals not to be bombarded with one sided people obsessed with feeding there dog a certain way and belligering others to do so to.

Yes it's fine that your dog hates raw meat, that's absolutely fine. I think that posters are questioning your assertion that raw feeding is dangerous. I can't see people being beligerant about it though, people have said, I disagree with your opinion, however you know your dog best. So peace and love, and happy dogs, however they're fed.

Dogs don't need grains or veg, just meat and bones; get all they need from that. Raw is best. Cooked meat will still be better than grain and junk packed commercial goods, but obviously no cooked bones

Actually even raw fed dogs get quite a bit of vegetation too i have a friend who is obsessed with feeding his dog animal guts and grated carrots and garlic

Elastamum...we have a 7 month old Staff/Black Lab cross - what we used to call a mongrel LOL - I am 59 this year and a cross breed dog was always a mongrel LOL.

She loves anything you put in front of her....We tend to do a mixture of dried dog food, mixed with all our scraps/left overs. She will literally eat anything but I want her to be healthy. She is in the second week of her very first season....or, as our DS4 (aged 17) calls it....she is in the second week of being a young lady

My dog is mostly fed raw since he was a small pup.
I don't really care about the cooked/raw thing but just the notion that Pet food companies have been able to convince people that processed food is healthier than real food makes me

its all clever marketing i see people on here all the time saying they feed their dog a premium dry food etc its all the same just labelled different i think if i had to eat dry food every night while other ate a hot meal id be annoyed too which is what DD looks like now she knows she's getting something inferior to our food

Some kibble are better than others but their all still kibble.
But pedigree or wagg is going to be considerably shitter than Lily's kitchen or Arden grange.

If your going to feed cooked food I strongly advise you purchase 'vegedog' supplement to add on top, or possibly 'missing link'.

Both available from www.veggiepets.co.uk because without one of the above supplements her diet won't be balanced.

I also think you should do more research into raw food.
Unless the dog is severely ill and immuno compromised raw shouldn't be dangerous in the least and the improvements in even healthy dogs are usually astounding.