Know-How
Our homemade dog food know-how section is full of tips and tricks to help you feed your dog the food he or she really deserves. Yes, making homemade food for your dog is a little less convenient, but it doesn’t need to be a chore and there is no denying it can make the world of difference to the health of your best friend. So please browse our various categories, be amazed at the variety of ingredients you can feed your dog, and when you’re ready, why not give some of our homemade dog food recipes a try?
Cook Your Dog’s Homemade Dog Food in Bulk
With most of our recipes, you can make them in quantity when you have the time and freeze them for when time is the last thing on your side. This applies to . . .
Lightly Cook Your Dog’s Vegetables
Most vegetables are protected by a cellulose coating that locks in the nutrients. To make them bioavailable to your dog, they need to be lightly cooked. If fed raw . . .
Fun with Homemade Dog Food
Just as you enjoy food, so do dogs. Dogs may not have quite the number of taste buds as human beings, but they are still capable of enjoying different tastes . . .
Why You Should Always Cook Your Dog’s Fish
Never feed your dog raw salmon (even smoked salmon) or trout. They can contain harmful parasites. Salmon poisoning can be fatal to dogs. Always cook fresh fish first . . .
Make Food more Fun with a Slow Feeder
You get pleasure out of savouring your food, so why shouldn’t your dog? A slow feeder gives your best friend time to enjoy his or her food at a more . . .
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! |
Why Homemade Dog Food is Best Lightly Cooked
Lightly cooking your dog’s homemade dog food does three things: It increases its digestibility. It makes the food easier to digest. It increases the . . .
Substituting Ingredients in Homemade Dog Food
Occasionally when making homemade food for our dogs, we will replace one ingredient with another, but never to the detriment of our dogs’ nutrition . . .
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 . . .
Transitioning Meal Plan
Because your dog’s digestive system will need time to adjust to proper food, and to make life as easy as possible for you at this stage, we would suggest . . .