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

Our collie get the left over roast potatoes on a Monday morning, he loves them and takes them back to his bed, one by one to eat them.

Supplements are a poor substitute for real vitamins and minerals obtained from eating real food. So very little is known about nutrition. Read - In defense of food by Michael Pollan

Supplementation would be Better than feeding cooked food alone?
She won't feed raw and won't feed commercial and wants to feed cooked.

Just offering advice to try and guard against a nutritional defiency!

If you are going to cook for your dog you will need to add a supplement on top, something that contains bonemeal. Also obviously try and avoid anything high fat so whilst meat and plain veg from your roast is great, roast pots/parsnips probably aren't great. There is a company that makes ice cube size jelly treats for dogs, they are made from bone broth and if dissolved in water they make great doggie gravy/stock. As human stock cubes will be far to high in salt.

Lots of veggies are actually better cooked for dogs -as someone above has said they have shorter intestines- and will find them easier to digest. In your situation I would be tempted to give a small handful of dry dog food for breakfast and then do your own dinner as you like. Just to give the digestive system some sort of routine.

That study talks more about the risks to humans feeding their pets raw than it does about the risks to the pets. Raw meat contains pathogens to minimise risk it is best to carry out good hygiene when handling raw meats. I guess your biggest problem will be ensuring that your dog gets a balanced dog diet and not a balanced human diet. Have you asked your vet for advice?

i make my own bone broth already. she eats bones and bone marrow she adores them so she's getting all her nutrients from the bones i rrad that raw potatoes are bad but cooked are ok as long as you wash and boil out all the starch before roasting which i dp anyway as dh is allergic to potato starch

Why is it so hard to feed dogs a balanced diet requiring supplementation when feeding our family a balanced diet is seemingly easy....I don't get it.

I thought most people fed their dogs like me; kibble as a staple, the odd bone, some raw meat/offal, and suitable dinner scraps as and when. But the kibble is the bulk of their diet, purely for ease.

Because dogs were not designed to eat cooked food and therefore it's very difficult to make it balanced?

Nutritional defiency takes years to show up so best to try your hardest to avoid it.

For what it's worth, I always give my kids a multi vitamin even though I consider their diet healthy.
Don't seem the harm in a little supplementation myself

The harm is not the in the supplementation it's in the assuming that feeding a poor diet is made ok by adding some factory produced vitamins. The vitamins that naturally occur in food are far superior, science is only scratching surface of nutrition.

But if the dog is going to be fed a certain food regardless surely its best to improve it as best you can?

The biggest reason in my book for not feeding leftovers is that there is a massive tendency to over fed and obesity is much more common in dogs fed food that is cooked alongside human food.
I have never seen an obese raw fed dog. I do see obese kibble fed dogs, because owners don't measure food.

if you feed your dog dry rubbish Purely for ease maybe you should not have a dog. they are anything but easy would you feed your child McDonald's Purely for ease

I like many owners are increasingly concerned and waking up to the realisation that all dog food mass produced and manufactured in tins and bags is all made by the same companies and sold for different levels of value the recipe for all these chemicals is the same. i as a responsible dog owner want better for my DD i see her as a companion in life and a better friend than any human could be

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Erm, how rude are you? I feed a good quality nutritionally balanced kibble for ease. That way I don't need a degree in animal nutrition to make sure my dogs get a balanced diet. They get other stuff for interest and because, you know, I like the furry bed stealing shit bags. Considering they choose to eat various types of shit and decomposing corpses, I think they're ok with their kibble.

if you feed your dog dry rubbish Purely for ease maybe you should not have a dog

At £5.50 a kilo Murph's Canagan is far from 'dry rubbish'. It's a very well balanced kibble that provides everything he needs. I'm hardly picking up a bag of Tesco Value food here.
Like snakey's dog he gets other stuff thrown in, we're having salmon tonight so he'll have a bit of that thrown in probably along with a few broad beans and a splash of parsley sauce so I wouldn't feel too sorry for him.

its kibble. bits of dried up grain and fats all made in the same factory for different brand names all with enticing packaging and big words and pretty pictures of dogs convincing you it will make you dog healthy as can be "with added vitamins and minerals"

Actually different kibbles have different ingredients and are often made in different factories.

While kibble is nothing like the ideal diet the fact is, a dog would probably be better off on cheap kibble than home cooked food!

Because your dog is not a person, home cooked food will not provide quite the right balance of nutrients your dog needs.

You may not see the damage for months, years even but it will happen.

In order to provide the right balance of nutrients your home dinners need supplementation but without a professional dog nutritionist's opinion even then you have no way of knowing if you are inadvertently overdosing on something that could make your dog sick. Excess calcium for instance can be very dangerous

Baffled as to why you are asking advice when you know it all anyway tbh

My username you are simply astonishingly inawàde and rude.

Yes. Some kibble is bad. Some kibble is pathetic. Most supermarket kibbles are full of additives, fillers, grains, animal derivatives, salts, sugars, and a load of crap that dogs neither need nor derive any goodness from whatsoever.

Then there are other kibbles. Ones that are absolutely grain free. As in no grains at all. Ones which are devoid of additives. Ones which are organic. Ones which contain two to three ingredients. Plus balanced supplements. Ones that are manufactured by small family owned outlets, in small batches. Not advertised on the media, not sold on pet shop food isles.

Your ignorance about kibble is astonishing.

Uhm, it's supposed to read unaware, not inawde stupid iPad!

Do some proper research about dog food op!
Have a proper look at raw and research companies such as Millie's wolf heart and Eden.
There is also a good site that reviews dog foods. All about dog food I think it's called. Might be worth a look.

Indeed, Sisters

All About Dog Food is a useful site for comparing foods.