What about vegetables?

There are 2 camps of raw feeders, the veggie feeders and the NON veggie feeders. I find myself somewhere in between.

I don’t feel that my dogs need the veggies, but sometime they enjoy left over steamed green beans or broccoli from our family meals. Vegetables need to be broken down by cooking or pulverizing for dogs to be able to access any of the nutrition and since cooking destroys the enzymes, the best way to serve veggies is raw and pulped or pulverized in a food processor.

Pulping veggies is a lot of work in my book, so I don’t do it anymore. I used to spend one afternoon every few weeks using my food processor on veggies and freezing them in Tupperware containers. Some people make a veggie ‘glop’ of pulped veggies, liver and other stuff they want their dogs to eat.

Veggies can be good fiber for dogs that tend to get constipated or overweight dogs that would benefit from fewer calories. Veggies can add a bit of bulk to the meal so the dieter doesn’t feel so deprived.

When I cut the veggies out of my dogs diet the only difference I noticed was the LACK of occasional dog ‘gas’. That’s a positive reason to not feed veggies around here, we have five house dogs :)