Homemade + Kibble - keeping it nutritionally balanced

Someone asked on reddit if a mix of 50% kibble 50% homemade food was nutritionally balanced.

Some advised it was not. Many still believe the myth tha...

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Complete & Balanced Nutrition ~ what's that?

The biggest "I DIDN'T KNOW THAT" I picked up from canine nutrition studies is that our bodies need consistent intake of vitamins, minerals and fatty a...

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How to Sniff Out Healthier Products

It took me a while to realise that higher priced dog food & food products do not guarantee a superior product. The price tag is very rarely a reflecti...

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Health hack ~ feeding once a day!

Inspired by intermittent fasting in laboratory rodents showing that it can lead to better health, emerging research suggests that feeding dogs once a ...

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5 Benefits of Homemade
  1. nutrients present in whole, unprocessed foods are more readily absorbed and utilised by a dog's body compared to those in heavily processed foods an...
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Nutrition & The Gut - what we weren't taught

For the longest time, I thought that the only thing that happened in the large intestine was the absorption of water and electrolytes. That was what w...

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Broth of Fresh Air: anti-inflammatory food
Some interesting points from a research paper:
  • in countries such as Mongolia, bone-broth is consumed to stimulate the immune system and promote the...
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Ensuring calcium is enough in homemade diets

The natural composition of many foods we use for our dogs, especially meat and organs, tend to be richer in phosphorus than calcium.

See this chart w...

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Untrue ideas about fat

Many pet parents deny their dogs and cats the very fuel their bodies are built to use. Our canine and feline friends have evolved to not only tolerate...

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Pawsitively balanced dogfood recipe

Discover a wholesome homemade dog food recipe packed with all the good stuff your furkid needs.  

Recipe:  

  • ground beef = 350 grams / 12.3 oz 
  • be...
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Online recipes ~ happy woofs or howling concern?

We look at what nutritionally complete means when making homemade meals for dogs. Then check 3 recipes, 2 online and 1 book, to see if they are nutrit...

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