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MidEngineManiac
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FEB 07, 01:29 PM
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Tried something last month, the pups loved it, so I am doing it again...
Home-Made wet food for $20 or so a month. Beats the crap out of $100/mo for canned stuff.
Ya need..
16-20 cups of the favorite kibble (Alpo around here). About a small bag worth, really.
1lb medium ground beef
1pound ground chicken/turkey.
One big can (for flavor) of their favorite canned dog food.
A couple cans of mixed veggies.
Can or 2 of "whatever" gravy.
Dump the kibble in a big roaster and forget about it for now.
Dump the meat, canned dog food, gravy and vegies into a big pot with 10-12 cups of water. Simmer until the meat is well cooked and all separated into teeny-tiny bits (yes, that is a technical term)
Dump that whole mess, water and all, into the roaster with the kibble (that stuff absorbs a LOT of water). Once the kibble is fully softened pull out the hand-blender and turn it all into a mush (another technical term)
freeze it in couple-of-day sized containers.
Our mutts get breakfast and dinner of a couple of spoons of wet food (one large can a day between 3 pups) and a batch like that last 3-4 weeks.
If you got an electric roaster simmer it to speed up the absorption, if not figure on 6-8 hours and adding water every hour or so.
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SOME guys around here might want to consider just making it in the hot tub !!![This message has been edited by MidEngineManiac (edited 02-07-2022).]
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blackrams
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FEB 08, 10:55 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:
Tried something last month, the pups loved it, so I am doing it again...
Home-Made wet food for $20 or so a month. Beats the crap out of $100/mo for canned stuff.
Ya need..
16-20 cups of the favorite kibble (Alpo around here). About a small bag worth, really.
1lb medium ground beef
1pound ground chicken/turkey.
One big can (for flavor) of their favorite canned dog food.
A couple cans of mixed veggies.
Can or 2 of "whatever" gravy.
Dump the kibble in a big roaster and forget about it for now.
Dump the meat, canned dog food, gravy and vegies into a big pot with 10-12 cups of water. Simmer until the meat is well cooked and all separated into teeny-tiny bits (yes, that is a technical term)
Dump that whole mess, water and all, into the roaster with the kibble (that stuff absorbs a LOT of water). Once the kibble is fully softened pull out the hand-blender and turn it all into a mush (another technical term)
freeze it in couple-of-day sized containers.
Our mutts get breakfast and dinner of a couple of spoons of wet food (one large can a day between 3 pups) and a batch like that last 3-4 weeks.
If you got an electric roaster simmer it to speed up the absorption, if not figure on 6-8 hours and adding water every hour or so.
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SOME guys around here might want to consider just making it in the hot tub !!!
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Obviously, you've got small dogs.
Rams
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maryjane
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FEB 08, 01:17 PM
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I once lived near a canned and dry dog food plant. I do not EVER EVER want that odor inside my house.
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Patrick
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FEB 08, 06:23 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by maryjane:
I do not EVER EVER want that odor inside my house.
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I suppose some people feel the same way about the smell of dogs themselves... especially wet ones!
Some dogs must be worse than others though, as I don't recall my long departed (and greatly missed) husky having much of an odor.
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steve308
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FEB 08, 06:31 PM
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Is the dog vaccinated? 
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cvxjet
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FEB 08, 11:51 PM
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Just a bit of advice about dog food; My dog Skye (R.I.P.) was eating some dry dog food that was highly recommended; Natural Balance (Limited ingredient).....When the big scandal about Chinese rice with melamine hit I checked up on this food and it had no rice....Approx' a year later, Skye started getting sick so I changed foods- another year went by and I checked back on Natural Balance; Dick Van Patten (The actor from "Eight is Enough") ran the company- he got sick and went in the hospital, so his second was running the company- He ADDED Chinese rice to the food (Even though it stated "No Rice" on the packages)...When Dick got out of the hospital he fired the guy and then publicly apologized for the situation.
Even a good quality food can have issues- trust your dog! And one of the biggest problems that ALL companies can experience is being bought by an investment firm; "We have the name- De-content, cut costs and increase (Short-term) profits!"
I learned that lesson from the Fram Filter debacle; Fram was the 800 lb Gorilla of oil filters in the 70s and 80s, then Allied Signal bought the company and to save some PENNIES they thinned the canister metal- I was on Hot Boat Forum back when this happened and a number of the Hot Boat guys lost engines due to ruptured oil filters- I will NEVER buy a Fram filter ever again (Yes they have a "High-quality" line- But this is a matter of principal)
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maryjane
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FEB 09, 01:19 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
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I suppose some people feel the same way about the smell of dogs themselves... especially wet ones!
Some dogs must be worse than others though, as I don't recall my long departed (and greatly missed) husky having much of an odor. |
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I wouldn't know. Admittedly, I don't live in the frozen North, but I do not allow animals inside my home unless they are seriously seriously ill, and even then, most of the time they remain outside. Learned our lesson with the cat that stole Christmas many years ago. We now have an agreement with pets. I don't get in their house, they stay out of mine.
 [This message has been edited by maryjane (edited 02-09-2022).]
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