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How To Make A Dog's Dinner
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What goes to make a dog's dinner? The phrase implies a mess, but most dogs' dinners nowadays look fairly appetizing - a bowl of nice-smelling biscuits or half a can of something that looks like cold meat pie filling.
It all looks very nice to us humans. And that is the whole purpose - dog food is sold to humans on its appearance and aroma.
We don't actually know what the dog reckons on it. We only know that they wolf it down, but then so would you if you were famished and you knew that the likelihood was that that was all you would get offered.
The fact is that a dog will eat almost anything if there is enough sugar or and salt on it. I had a collie-cross that would eat anything I offered her except Brussels sprouts (she would take them politely and throw them around, but she would not eat them).
It stands to reason that you will not get a tin of decent pie filling for a dollar, so whatever is in there will not be best beef. Yet it has to be fit for human consumption, so what is it? Well, to start with, the gravy is almost certainly made of carcass scrapings and blood, thickened with flour.
That would make it fairly nutritious, but not as appetizing as it looks. The 'lumps of meat' are almost certainly not meat. They are most likely offal and soy or something similar. Again, not a bad thing, but not what it is intended to look like to us and the dog will certainly know that it is not meat.
So what ought to constitute a dog's dinner? In the wild, a pack of wolves would bring down, say, a deer and rip its stomach open. The contents thereof are the first course. Since wolves by and large eat vegetarian animals, the stomach contents will normally include grass, leaves and other plants.
Then they will move on to the internal organs like heart and liver. The stomach and organs are the best bits and only the top dogs get them. Once they are gone, they rip the carcass apart and eat the meat. Later they chew on the bones.
Those are the guiding principles for making a dog's dinner. if you cook your own evening meal, cook a bit extra for the dog. Liquidize the vegetables to replicate the chewed food that would be in the deer's stomach. Most decent butchers will have 'pets' mince' or a mixture that they use for making faggpts (meatballs).
This pet mince usually contains off-cuts, offal and bits of internal organs, some skin, stomach lining and arteries - all the bits they could not sell to their contemporary customers. That takes care of the dog's natural second and third courses.
The butcher will also set some bones aside for his better customers, which you will be if you buy your own and your dog's food there. Feed the meat raw mixed with the blended vegetables. Add an egg and some dry porridge oats to bind it all and supply fibre and you have the ideal dog's dinner.
This sort of meal will vary on its own because you do not cook the same vegetables each day. You can add an apple or other fruit and celery is good as well.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on many subjects, but is currently concerned with researching Emergency for Dogs. If you want to know more, please go to our website at What To Do If Your Dog Eats Chocolate.
Article submitted Tuesday, January 31, 2012 & read 138 times.
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