By Mary Straus

Home-Prepared Pet Food Diets

Home-prepared dog food diets for those who eschew from raw ingedients.

Those of us who feed our dogs a raw diet that includes bones believe that this is the healthiest, most natural diet dogs can eat. But not everyone is comfortable feeding such a diet to their dogs. Here are directions for feeding your dog a cooked diet, or a diet that includes raw meat but no bones. Your dog will still benefit from a variety of fresh foods in proper proportions, regardless of how they’re prepared. It takes a little more work to ensure that a cooked diet that does not include bone meets all of your dog’s nutritional needs. We’ll explain how much calcium, and in which form, you’ll need to add to his diet.