Homemade Pet Food Recipes

If you are worried about the pet food poison scare, you may want to try preparing some homemade pet food recipes.

While some vets do not recommend a homemade diet for pets due to nutritional concerns, there are guidelines one can follow to ensure their pet's diet meets their nutritional needs.

Nutritional Guidelines

According to Health Recipes Online, making nutritional homemade pet food is simple. They recommend that pet owners add a grain (oatmeal or whole wheat bread, for instance) to meat dinners prepared for pets.

Dogs, who need only one meal a day, should have 75% carbohydrates with 25% meat, according to the guidelines found at Health Recipes Online.

Cats, who need three meals a day, should have meals made up of half carbohydrates and half meat.

Making it Appealing

Pets use their sense of smell to evaluate a food. The appearance of the food isn't as important as the big pet food distributors would have us believe. In fact, the cute shapes that pet food and treats come in are cute for our sakes, not our pets'.

The important thing to remember when preparing pet foods">homemade pet foods is that the smell must be appetizing. Using savory meats in your homemade pet food recipes will serve well for this.

Meats

Dogs: For dogs, meats like liver, beef, lamb and fish (as well as horsemeat, according to one source) are especially appetizing.

Cats: Cats also like fish, liver and lamb, along with turkey and chicken.

Recipes

Healthy Recipes Online offers the three following pet recipes and more on their site at www.healthrecipes.com/pet_supply.htm.

Sauteed Liver

Heat 1 teaspoon corn oil in a pan.

Add 1/4 pound beef liver and fry on both sides until cooked but not dry inside.

Add 1/2 cup water to the pan and mix it up with all the brown bits.

For dogs, cut the liver into pieces and serve; for cats, grind the liver in a blender, using the pan juices.

Mackerel Dinner