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Old 03-02-2013, 10:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Barf vs home cooked questions

I'm trying to conquer my boys itchiness. I normally feed him and my girl chicken products (livers and hearts included) with some changes (sometimes pork sometimes beef)

Since Loki has always been itchy I wanted to try eliminating chicken and go with strictly beef products and see.

My vet gave me info on preparing a home cooked variety of one protein, one carb , and one vegetable product that was recommended by a leading (local) dermatologist. She gave this to me advising against the beef switch because she felt it would be useless.

With her recomended diet, the protein source is something like ell fish rabbit venison, or beans of some sort. But it all requires cooking. With certain vegetables I can understand cooking for taste appeal to my boy, but I don't understand it for the protein source. Doesn't that extract some nutritional aspects?

Who here prepares a home cooked variety? I was thinking about trying it with maybe fish, potatoes, and carrots an see what becomes of it?




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