Hi all

Does anyone cook for their dogs rather than feed raw? 

If so, what do you cook for them and do you add any supplements to ensure your dogs are getting all they need?  I usually feed "The Missing Link" to my 2 girls.

Thank you :)

I feed raw now but have cooked in the past for them :)
liver, sausage, potatoes (in skins) fish,  veg (steamed) chicken, kidneys, lamb, turkey, scrambled egg, etc
Can't remember what supplements apart from omega 3, codliver oil (winter) and garlic caps.....

Hi Missie.  I have cooked most of the things that you mention.  Not veg though, I have given them veg from my dinner and they have never eaten it.  Never cooked them potatoes either.  I will give it a go though.

out of interest why cook the food?

Some dogs just won't eat raw, no matter what you give or how hard you try :(
fussy devils ;) :)

Make sure you mash the spuds Blossom, goes down (comes out) better ;)

> Does anyone cook for their dogs rather than feed raw

My puppies (6 months old) have scrambled eggs with cheese, cooked chicken, baked rice pudding, sausages, boiled eggs,roast beef/lamb,cooked prawns: in fact we work on the premise that if it's good enough for us - it's good enough for them. They had half of my sirloin steak last night- (cooked).
The adults have a complete food with additional mixed cooked/uncooked food depending on what's in the fridge.(We always have raw chicken and tripe to hand)
I've fed a very mixed diet for many years but everyone gets some complete feed.
Works for me and mine.

Toolz, this is just the way it is here too.
My neice doesn't even complement with complete just whatever they have so do the dogs, they have all been healthy, shiny, long lived individuals, with the exception of one three legged.
Karen :)

Sounds great tooolz - can I move in?  Hehe.  No seriously, I try to cook mostly for my girls and am working towards the same sort of diet as your provide tooolz :)  They had cottage pie (minus the onions and other unsafe ingredients) last night for dinner and then some sausages later on.  I also got 2 cooked chickens from Morrisons too, so they will go down VERY well.  :)

From your avatar - I would think that your little guys should really go for this type of diet and it's unusual to get fussy phases.( Except if you've got a wonky one-off like I have but that's a whole other topic!)
It can work out extrodinarily expensive for a number of large dogs (so they get a mixture of all types) but fine with my littlies.

> out of interest why cook the food?

Hi Astarte, I find it very difficult to feed entirely raw meat to my little ones mainly due to their unsavory habit of dragging their food along the carpets and onto the sofas! I have steam cleaned and tried segregation but some will not eat if put outside or isolated from the living area.Green tripe is not too bad as they will eat it from their bowls.
Also I find that one or two of mine seem to find some raw things quite unpleasant -cold uncooked chicken for example.

Cooking a batch of sausages or a big chicken or baking a rice pudding means I might get some too.

I suppose it all boils down to the fact that they are bloomin' spoilt!! 

lol, fair enough. i was just interested as i understood that if meat is cooked it loses a lot of its goodness for dogs, but suppose its less good if they don;t eat it at all :)

Thanks for all of your help Tooolz.  :)

Just wanted to update a little bit that my girls appear to be both quite happily eating the trays of Forthglade so I am giving them a meal of that once a day and the rest home cooked - whatever I am having minus the bad bits.

Not sure how long their love affair with Forthglade will last - so fingers crossed :)