How I feel about home prepared diets...

I began this journey with the intention of getting my dog started on a home prepared diet and also be able to help out my customers that may be curious of feeding a home prepared diet or just want to offer some fresher options with their dog’s kibble.  I do not really have any experience with a home cooked diet.  I generally end up going raw with my dog or foster dogs and if that is not well tolerated I will do a dehydrated food for convenience.  Since I work for an independent pet food retailer, my dog mainly gets commercially prepared raw.  She is always more than willing to test out the new products and takes her job as food tester very seriously.  I became interested in home prepared diets for a couple reasons.  The first was the recent development of seizures in my dog.  I wanted to eliminate any unnecessary foods from her diet that could potentially contribute to the seizures.  Being a vegan, I am also very conscious about where food is sourced.   Many companies may claim their chicken is ‘cage-free’ or their beef ‘free-range’.  However there is rarely information beyond that about where the meat is actually sourced and the treatment of those animals.  With growing pesticide use and exponentially growing number of GMO products it is also hard to find companies that will divulge this information if they even know it.  

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