My lab mix has decided to stop eating commercial dog food. So we decided to cook him food. Does anyone have any recipies for home made dog food? He's 12 years old and can be pretty picky about food. TIA Tim

The food I cooked for my dog depends on the breeding of my dog. For an ordinary dog I cooked same food as mine. For my special dog I cooked the commercial food because his stomache is a little bit sensitive. But the bottomline is I don't want to spend too much money for the food of my dog. I'm just practical.

Grilled Chicken and Rice works great for dogs...Fix up some of that and he'll be good to go in no time!!

I find cause my dog is fussy I buy a high fat mince(pet food stores should carry this) brown it in oil(if your dog is slightly under weight be heavy handed with the oil not too much or your dog will get the runs but oil is good in small doses) add a cup of rice, 2 cups of water. Simmer till rice is cooked then add another cup of water with either gravy mix or beef stock and veges either fresh or frozen cook till veges are cooked and gravy is thick and cool. Your dog should like it. I cook this well cooking mine let his cool then feed his when we are finished works well with my schedule a lot of people don't like cooking for their pups but it's not that much work but I will admit he gets commerial food in the morning and still has biscuits with his cooked meal.

Happy Cooking

Do you really want to cook for your dog?
Google the words 'barf' 'prey model diet' 'raw feed' and take a look at some of the great stuff out there.
Our dogs are fed raw and they love it. (Hannibal is not sure about rabbits though).
The sites promoting this type of feed say that you can see the difference in 60 days but when we started we could see the difference after one meal.
Better poop, less farts, great coat and teeth and now dandruff has cleared up and they don't moult as much.
If you are going to go to all the effort of feeding your dog proper food rather than commercial junk raw would be of greater benefit. A lot of nutrients are lost through cooking not to mention it will also save you a lot of time.

Best of luck in whatever you do.

Megan, Hannibal and Ralphie

I forgot to say that if you do a little research you will find that feeding raw also works out to be the same price, if not cheaper, than regular dog food.

Cheap raw dog food can be obtained in many groceries. They throw out a lot of meat, which had spent so many days on the shelf. I met a friendly IGA grocery owner in our area. He allows some customers to pick up meat packages, which they have to dispose anyway. This is where I get ground beef, chicken parts, beef and lean pork. Besides, I use venison and deer scraps left by hunters. My dogs like some cooked vegetables, such as squash, pumpkin and cabbage and they eat some fruits raw. If your dog spends much time outside, soma variation in dog's stool is not a problem and it is quite natural, if the dog eats diverse foods.