For the Love of Pets
I wrote a blog several months ago when I was learning to make dog food that I know is healthy. The challenge has now turned into a chore, all be it a fun chore. I make it in batches, freeze some but most everyday I add something healthy fresh to their food dish. The last batch I forgot to grind half an egg shell for the calcium. Man the tiniest piece of an egg shell in my mouth would make me barking mad but the dogs seem to be fine with it.I feel guilty when I throw away an egg shell or just too lazy to grind it and throw it on the garden.
Teaching Lucy, the dog I inherited when a friend passed, to eat healthy has been my greatest challenge as she wanted dog food from a can. After months of cooking I did serve her canned dog food one night when I had a lazy attack. She took one sniff then looked at me with a WTF expression. I threw the canned shit out.
I discovered something I love in this cooking challenge. Because I put sweet potatoes and carrots in the dog's food, I ended up with a craving for just those two items. I cooked up a bunch of carrots with one small sweet potato, mashed them all together with some cinnamon & brown sugar and felt like I was eating a dessert pie but it was just veggies.
I love new discoveries.
Comments (5)
I'm not a vegetarian and if I don't get my meat I can get difficult but now that you mention carrots and sweet potatoes, sometimes I get a craving for just veggies. A potato, an onion, a carrot, a gem squash, and a piece of cabbage, broccoli or cauliflower cooked together just like that and I'm happy to go to bed without meat.
But just some times.
Egg shells I crunch up and they go in my compost bin, I googled that tip
Bet your dogs love you