Recent Articles from Petfoodology About Home-cooked Diets Frequently Asked Questions About Home-cooked Diets In most cases, it is significantly more expensive to prepare a nutritionally complete diet at home than...
...tips on when you should avoid home-cooked diets. Just Say No Situations when you should definitely avoid a home-cooked diet: Young, growing animals (less than 12 months of age for...
...problem board-certified veterinary nutritionists encounter when formulating nutritionally complete home-cooked diets. Tufts nutritionists did a study to evaluate our clients’ experiences and ability to follow home-cooked diet recipes for dogs...
...commercial diets. Despite what you may have read, very few pets actually need to be fed a home-cooked diet because of health reasons and an improperly prepared home-cooked diet can...
...raw and home-cooked diets increase your dog’s risk for many other health problems. So, forego the raw or home-cooked diets and stick with a commercial pet food made by a...
...freeze-dried raw chunks). No matter whether they are homemade or commercial, they all have similar concerns. Are Raw Meat Diets Healthier? Proponents of raw meat diets anecdotally report numerous benefits,...
...do compared to pets fed more typical diets with lots of bloodwork and other diagnostics. For diets for bladder stone prevention, the diets are fed to animals, their urine is...
...The challenge with home-cooked diets is that unless they are carefully designed, nutrient deficiencies are common. We investigated the nutritional adequacy of home-cooked diet recipes for dogs from the Internet...
...toxicity). We sometimes see secondary DCM in dogs or cats eating home-prepared diets (unless the recipe was formulated by a Board-Certified Veterinary Nutritionist® and strictly followed, home-prepared diets are nearly...
...feeding home-cooked diets to dogs and to evaluate adherence to home-cooked diet recipes. Most respondents liked and continued to feed a home-cooked diet, but few (only 13%) of owners adhered...