Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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What cyst? Did that come out of the blue or did I miss a post?
Mary Strauss and Lew Olson are definitely the go-to people for home-cooked recipes.
Of course you know not to just cook meat and feed it, because the lack of bone in a home-cooked diet means that it has to be carefully supplemented with calcium. I'm adding this so no one else reading thinks that "home-cooked" for a dog means just random cooked foods.
About kidney diets:
"Home diet will be better than the Rx kibble when things advance."
I agree a thousand percent.
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Quote: Connie Sutherland
What cyst? Did that come out of the blue or did I miss a post?
Mary Strauss and Lew Olson are definitely the go-to people for home-cooked recipes.
Of course you know not to just cook meat and feed it, because the lack of bone in a home-cooked diet means that it has to be carefully supplemented with calcium. I'm adding this so no one else reading thinks that "home-cooked" for a dog means just random cooked foods.
About kidney diets:
"Home diet will be better than the Rx kibble when things advance."
I agree a thousand percent.
No you did not miss a post I just did not initally want to put that information out since right now its not a concern or relevent. Yes I am aware of that and respect the clarification for others in the event they did not know that. I have read almost every ounce of info on her site and been in contact via email with her for some time now. The home cooked kidney diet hopefully is far down the line since PKD is a very slow progressing disease. In his case, just as in people, it may never get any worse than it is. But in case it does and it causes kidney disfunction I am going to be prepared! It is congenital. It can skip generations too so its hard to know if you dog will get it. It is also rare in dogs, rarer in Dobes. But my boy is that 1% (or whatever the stat is). Im just glad I have a vet who respects my opnions even though they come from human medicine and backs all my choices with him when it comes to home cooked (again, only if it comes to that) down the road.
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He is doing much better. Thanks for asking. He didn't get back to normal GI until this past weekend. I'll never be giving him raw again. It just is not for him.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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I'll never be giving him raw again. It just is not for him.
You can do very well with any of several alternatives, including THK with non-raw add-ins.
Even home-cooked can be much simpler than it sounds. My granddog Border Terrier on home-cooked gets a terrific diet, at a doable expenditure of time and effort. The food is prepared in good-size batches and frozen in containers of a couple of days' worth, so it's not at all like anyone is cooking every day.
Then a few fresh add-ins are often added at mealtime.
Mary Strauss and Lew Olson have very good instructions and recipes for home-cooked food. Both go into good detail about diet and kidney challenges, too. (You probably know this from Mary's site.)
I'm so glad he's better.
ETA
Oops. I see I basically duplicated a post I made at the top of this page.
Edited by Connie Sutherland (01/16/2013 02:05 PM)
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