What Is Real Food for Dogs?
What is Real Food for Dogs?
2 nutritionally balanced, home-cooked, organic meals for a small dog
Real food is basic unprocessed ingredients cooked for your dog. Preferably fresh, non-GMO, organic if you can get them. Common sense says real food will taste good and make for a calmer, healthier pet. Real food can be an act of love and caring from you to your pet. It feels good to feed your dog or cat actual real food!
How is Real Food “Done?”
Cook at Home
The basic way is to get a meal plan of balanced recipe designed by a qualified veterinarian and cook up the food for your pet on a daily or weekly basis. If your dog is tiny, you might be able to cook up to 3 weeks’ worth and freeze meal-size portions for consumption later. These meals are typically crock pot or casserole or meatloaf-type recipes. Once you are a registered client with Dr Truli, you can get custom designed meal plans, computer balanced with proper nutrients for confident real-food care. Call Dr Truli at (877) 378-7854 or email DrTruli@VetVMD.com to get started today!
Get a Doggy Chef
You can have a doggy chef cook balanced meals for you. How this works is, you have a qualified veterinarian examine your dog and either design the meal plan for you or hire a veterinary nutritionist. You get recipes you can then share with your doggy chef. Some online companies offer an in-house service to make recipes for your pet. Be aware that this in inaccurate and a violation of veterinary medicine practice acts in many states unless the person making the recipe is a veterinarian and has examined your pet personally. Why does this matter? There are 100’s of medical conditions that affect nutritional needs. Like bladder stones, IBD, allergies, etc.
Buy meals at a doggy cafe
The next way to feed real food is to buy meals for dogs pre-made. Many dog cafes and eateries are popping up in cities across America. It is a whole new world of options. These meals cannot be balanced for your pet because they are made for dogs in general. They can provide fun and variety and it is unknown of they would cause nutritional imbalances if fed exclusively and long-term. (Long-term meaning for more than 2 months.)
Have fresh meals delivered
Another way to feed your dog real food is to have a delivery service that brings prepared whole foods meals to your doorstep. These are available in some urban areas in the US. These meals, while delivered to your door, are still not balanced for your pet.
Get close with certain prepared foods
Companies like Honest Kitchen and Pet Tao and Simple Food Project make food according to Chinese Veterinary Medicine principles of food combining. They source the ingredients as locally and organically as possible, but 100% organic is only possible with home-cooking.
Work With a Veterinarian Who Understands Food
Dr Sandra Truli Springer provides house calls for pets in the Tampa Bay, Florida area. Dr Truli will not only respect your feeding choices, she can guide you to optimize whatever you are doing. In her next post, Dr Truli will address what laboratory tests you should be doing if you are cooking for your dog or cat.
Start feeding your pet right in the new year. Call Dr Truli at (877) 378-7854 or email DrTruli@VetVMD.com to get started today!
