Healthy Homemade Dogfood Recipes If You Want A Healthy Family Pet

 

Homemade doggie treats may seem like a lot of work to some people. Other people like the concept of making their own dog's food or treats but are unsure how to choose recipes and ingredients. But the doggies in both homes would of course LOVE some homemade goodies!

Why You Should Make Your Own Dog Treats

Why is it you would want to make your own dog treats and meals? You will have more flexibility in what you feed your family dog since you will remain in control. You can take into account allergies or other dietary concerns. You will have no limit on flavor combinations instead of being limited to what manufacturers choose. You will be able to adjust homemade dog treats to fit your dog's nutritional needs such as choosing to use low-fat peanut butter.

How To Save Time When Making Dog Treats

By trying a number of homemade dog food recipes at a time, you will not need to play Doggie Chef as much. Just freeze the individual treats or single-serving size meals on a cookie sheet. Then after they are frozen completely just move them to a plastic freezer bag for safe keeping. Since they were frozen separately, they will not become stuck to one another and you can just move just a few to the refrigerator whenever you need more so that they can thaw overnight.

What To Look For In Dog Treat Recipes

There are several things to look at when choosing a dog treat or dogfood recipe. Depending on your comfort in the kitchen, just choose or skip recipes based on the following tips. If you're the type of person that feels comfortable in making substitutions, then you have even more options.

Find recipes that -

* center on ingredients that your dog enjoys
* sound appealing to you (even though you won't be eating them!)
* give textures and sizes your dog prefers - soft, crunchy, large, small, cold, room temperature, etc.

Stay away from recipes which contain ingredients that your dog -

* doesn't like
* is allergic to

Anytime you are looking for a cookbook or compilation of dog biscuit recipes you want enough choices while not being overwhelmed. Fifty recipes would be the least amount while three hundred or more is really more than enough. In between one hundred and two hundred is a good number because there will be plenty of options and variety but not too many that you won't be able to narrow down which ones to try.

Your pooch needs to eat regularly, you are the one who is responsible for her health, and you have to pay for both. So why not try your hardest to give your dog healthy food and treats which will help keep her much healthier and thus minimize potential veterinary expenses. This would be a win-win situation for you and your family dog!