[PugMom]

Originally Posted by Scott O

There is absolutely nothing wrong with giving a dog fresh food, kibble is not what’s best for dogs, or their teeth. It was manufactured for human convenience. It’s like feeding processed foods every single day, or you eating McDonald’s every day...your vets advice is not appropriate. Veterinarians are not really trained a lot about diet and nutrition. The large food companies (Hills, Purina) are involved with the actual information used in textbooks for Veterinary training, so they of course push that because of their profits. Actual feeding while at table of course can make the dog beg, but nothing wrong with cutting up some fresh/frozen cooked vegetables, green beans, broccoli, carrots, to eggs, lean meats etc to give a dog along with their food, on occasion or every day. They enjoy a variety too..Holistic Veterinarians are trained more specifically about importance of diet.

do you remember the great dog-food scare? everything was being recalled for killing pets due to melamine being used in the grains. during this time we made our own dog foods from a recipe our vet used. human grade meat, veggies, eggs & sweet potatoes went into every batch, & hubby had the most fun making it. the dogs rejoiced & we supplemented the diet with Vet-Tabs.