Home prepped food for your dogs

[WhittleBurner]

. Getting your vet on board may not be easy for any diet other than commercial dog foods. They do need a balanced diet. There are powdered mixes that can be added to help balance out what you feed them

This is where we hit pay dirt our main vet in FL gave me a printout with several raw and gently cooked info as well as links with vitamins for raw and gently cooked. She only reccomended 1 kibble Fromm

Our Mi vet is not totally on board with raw or the vaccines. They actually told a rescue I did not vac regularly so they turned us down...guess which vet we use as reference now.

I plan on joining a co op where raw feeders get wholesale pricing, they also have game meat and organs available

 

[ajg617]

This is where we hit pay dirt our main vet in FL gave me a printout with several raw and gently cooked info as well as links with vitamins for raw and gently cooked. She only reccomended 1 kibble Fromm

Our Mi vet is not totally on board with raw or the vaccines. They actually told a rescue I did not vac regularly so they turned us down...guess which vet we use as reference now.

I plan on joining a co op where raw feeders get wholesale pricing, they also have game meat and organs available

Our vet (almost 30 years now) is just into Hills or Science Diet whatever they can get good pricing on and every new shot in the book. Not happening - moved the pup to a new vet that's more holistically minded. I am amazed at the improvement in our nearly 14 year old since switching to Farmers Dog (convenience with work) - actually out running and going up/down stairs a couple of times a day. I'm sorry we didn't catch her brother sooner. Only vaccine she gets is rabies. HWF for ticks and Lyme disease preventative, glucosamine chondroitin chews in the morning.

 

[WhittleBurner]

Thanks Marcy. This looks like a neat product. The only problem in the truck for us is they've done away with cigarette lighter adapters in ours - only one on the dash where I have all the monitors connected. Wonder if it would run on a USB port - plenty of those?

Just a quick update on the 12v fridge freezer. I just shut it down yesterday after about 3 weeks. This is one of the best buys I've done in some time. It switches easily when changing power sources and held temps steady within a degree or 2 of where I set it. It lived in the back seat for most of our travels switching power sources often. It is a keeper so far!

 

[Bobbybrown111]

I have a doggo, he is 14 years old. We've been prepping his meals for years now, mostly gently cooked and occasionally raw

 

[reubenray]

My wife switched our Yorkie to Fresh Pet a year or so ago. She tried making her own a few times, but Sophie (Yorkie) was a picky eater. To make sure she has plenty of it my wife would buy two bags at a time and freeze one of them. She would take out what she needs the night before to thaw out.

 

[WhittleBurner]

Well it's been almost 6 months and were feeding 100%raw. Both the puppy Zeus and 4.5 yr old Belle can't wait to eat. we roatate with chicken, Turkey,Pork and beef with occasional deer or lamb if the CO OP has some ground to offer. It is a huge learning curve for sure and you need a freezer to hold prep and upcoming meals to be. I have supplemented with a vitamin mix and a dehydrated mix to get the full vitamins necessary without having to deal with the organ meat and a larger freezer. That makes travel/ fridge space easier to deal with and the longer stay in FL possible. So it can be done with long term camping but not without that extra little freezer space the portable 12 v fridge/freezer gives us. Now I need to find a Co op in the area we winter. Found a facebook group ((my sole reason for joining facebook..an inner struggle for sure) so should get pointed in the right direction

 

[jlk111]

Well it's been almost 6 months and were feeding 100%raw. Both the puppy Zeus and 4.5 yr old Belle can't wait to eat. we roatate with chicken, Turkey,Pork and beef with occasional deer or lamb if the CO OP has some ground to offer. It is a huge learning curve for sure and you need a freezer to hold prep and upcoming meals to be. I have supplemented with a vitamin mix and a dehydrated mix to get the full vitamins necessary without having to deal with the organ meat and a larger freezer. That makes travel/ fridge space easier to deal with and the longer stay in FL possible. So it can be done with long term camping but not without that extra little freezer space the portable 12 v fridge/freezer gives us. Now I need to find a Co op in the area we winter. Found a facebook group ((my sole reason for joining facebook..an inner struggle for sure) so should get pointed in the right direction

You can save some freezer space with a quality ice chest. Rotate frozen food from chest to freezer and back every day or two keeping it frozen or even super cold. It allows us to take about three times the food without filling the freezer up completely with dog food.

 

[WhittleBurner]

You can save some freezer space with a quality ice chest. Rotate frozen food from chest to freezer and back every day or two keeping it frozen or even super cold. It allows us to take about three times the food without filling the freezer up completely with dog food.

We have a 35 quart 12 v or ele freezer/fridge that fits perfectly in the truck or tucked in a corner of the trailer . It holds quite a few meals that are prepped and ready. It helps leave room in the rv freezer for a few meals for us on the road. It'll all get roomier when the pup isn't eating what seems like all day long lol

IF Marvin didn't put holes in our cargo trailer (part of a live oak is laying on it) on our spot in FL we stuck a 7cf freezer in there. We on the way there to check it out now.