Dog Nutrition
Dog nutrition entails meeting your dog’s nutritional requirements with a well balanced, appropriately proportioned and varied diet in order to maintain its overall health and wellbeing. Like human beings, dogs are omnivores. Their digestive systems have evolved to benefit from both plant and animal-based ingredients, where quality and digestibility are more important than the source of the ingredient. And your dog’s health is more closely related to good dog nutrition than anything else.
What’s the Beef?
As we have on occasion mentioned before, one of the great things about making homemade food for your dog is being able to take . . . .
Homemade Dog Food Helpful Hints – Moisture’s Good
You will probably find your dog drinks a lot less water once you home cook his or her food. That’s because, unlike kibble, the fresh food you lightly cook for your dog . . .
Change Your Dog’s Diet One Day at a Time
Whether you’re worried about the additives in commercial dog food, concerned about pet food recalls or simply want the best for your dog, changing his or her diet . . .
(CN) Homemade Dog Food Helpful Hints – Balance, Variety & Moderation
Balance, Variety & Moderation are the three basic principles of dog nutrition. If we balance one ingredient against another, offer them a wide variety . . .
How Much Should I Feed My Dog?
A normal, healthy, adult dog should eat between 2 and 3% of its body weight a day. Older, less active dogs, have lower energy levels and therefore require . . .
Essential Nutrients
Herb Blends for Dogs
| When making homemade food for your dog, no recipe is complete without adding one of our unique blends of 100% natural essential vitamins & minerals, all hand-blended by our team here in rural Somerset. |
Eggshell Powder
| Next to raw meaty bones, Eggshell Powder is the richest source of essential calcium for dogs. Ours is naturally made in rural Somerset from eggs laid by our own free-range chickens! |
Eggshell Powder for Dogs
Eggshells are an excellent, easily digestible and natural source of calcium for dogs, as well as containing trace amounts of magnesium, strontium and . . .
Homemade Food for Dogs
As far as our own two dogs are concerned, nothing beats homemade dog food. Nothing comes even close to the goodness, the variety, the taste . . .
Homemade Dog Food Helpful Hints – Feed Twice a Day
While many small dogs are quite happy being fed once a day, dogs are not so much different from human beings. Imagine how . . .
(CN) Why Calcium is Essential for Dogs
Calcium is essential to dogs. If you don’t like the idea of regular meaty bones on your living room carpet, feed our Eggshell Powder with every meal. Next to . . .