Home Cooking for Your Dog: 75 Holistic Recipes for a Healthier Dog

Awesome book. Purchased as a gift but it came to late for her Birthday so I decided to keep it. I'm glad I did its an awesome book full of great homemade recipes, tips ect....! I would definitely recommend this book to my family & friends with dogs. Worth every penny I paid.

Great recipes with a lot of helpful information on home cooking for your pups broken down very easily. It is so easy to home cook for your animals. Home cooking has stopped the diarrhea and they are spunky and bright eyed!

This cookbook is for someone who really wants to cook for their dog(s). It is set up in a sensible format and easy to follow. My dogs love all of the recipes I've tried so far. My issue with this cookbook is that I have four dogs with different needs/ages/weights that I need to feed. The author bases her recipes on an average of a 50 lb dog, as in one 'recipe' is set up for 4-50lb dogs, and then there is a single serving recipe below as well. So one recipe does not cover my 90 lb Labrador, my 72 lb Shepard mix, my 56 lb Pit bull mix and my 35 lb Border Collie. I have to adjust the amount I cook and serve for each dog. I'm cooking about a recipe and a half each meal. The author does list serving amounts per weight in the book, as well as how much protein, vegetables, etc to give. If I only had one dog to feed, this would be more do able for me. The author does also state what NOT to give your dog, how to add calcium using eggshells, supplements to give etc. There is a ton of helpful information here, my dogs are not complaining, but long term this is not practical for me.

This book is very well laid out for ease of trying new recipes for your dogs. It makes it user friendly for anyone that already cooks for their pack and also those interested that haven't tried it yet. We've been cooking for them for years and it's always been a challenge to find proper recipes to follow. I like to know there's good knowledge and expertise behind the recommendations. Your dogs will love you even more!

I was going crazy trying to find a kibble that my new puppy (Australian Labradoodle) liked and didnt give him liquid stool. I went through about 4 different brands including a prescription kibble from our vet none of which provided any improvement. I then considered a fresh delivery service but that was out of my budget and started looking into preparing the food myself. I was quickly overwhelmed with all of the stuff I was reading online and decided to give this book a try. I am glad I did! Aside from being easy to follow, it broke everything down in a way that just made sense. After reading, I felt that I had a solid understanding of how to plan and make healthy and nutritious meals for my pup.With the help of this book I have finally gained the courage to give the home cooked meals a try and I am happy to say that I saw the results immediately. My puppy has been on home cooked meals for about a week as of today and within the first 2 days his stool was what it should be (and about a third of what it was when he was on kibble), he doesnt scratch like he used to and he loves meal time. In my first batch, I made about 2 weeks worth of food. In my next batch, I will be making a month's worth.Note: The recipes in the book are for a 50lb adult dog but there are guidelines for modifying based on your dog's weight. I did have some questions about what if any adjustments I needed to make for a puppy and reached out to the author through her website. She was more than willing to help answer my questions and offer advice. I have learned so much over the past couple of weeks and strongly encourage everyone who has a pet to consider home cooked meals. Whether you use this book or any other, don't get discouraged because you think it will be too complicated or time consuming. (Anyone can spare one day a month to ensure their pet is getting a nutritious diet without all the fillers and side effects of commercially made food) It is not as complicated as the internet makes it seem. On a side note, I have also come to learn through my own digging that most of what is posted online that looks like news articles or blogs trying to scare you with how difficult it is to "balance" a dogs nutrition are written by big brand kibble companies. Stick to the guidelines and basic principles and always remember that even a less than perfect meal that you make at home with healthy ingredients is a million times better than the sewage they put in kibble and canned food.Thank you for taking the time to write this book and giving new pet owners like me the confidence and knowledge to keep our pets happy and healthy with home cooked food!

Being influenced by my feed on Instagram, I felt I had to start cooking meals for my dog or her life would be cut short. But after cooking for her, I found that she has more stomach distress. I believe that this book is a good book for diets for dogs. There is a list of interchangeable ingredients that helps you add new items to the dog's diet. However, I do not feel confident in cooking for my dog when the changes in food content upsets her digestion. She around 13 years old. Perhaps if I had started when she was younger, cooking for her wouldn't have been so challenging. So it's a mixed bag. This book appears easy to use but it was challenging for me.

Just what was expected and when I expected.

I do much of my pups cooking due to food intolerances & allergies. I love the steps she takes for ensuring proper portions & nutrients are encorporated as well as charts and logic to help guide rather than just recipes.