Handy Hints:
- The best bowls for serving dog meals are heavy ceramic or stainless steel, with rubber underneath to stop them moving.
- To get a dog's correct weight, weigh yourself and your dog together on the scales, then weigh yourself and subtract your own weight from the combined weight ... if your scales are weighing light or heavy the corruption will be neutralised (added and then subtracted).
- The weight of meat decreases by a third when it is boiled.
- Cooked rice or pasta weighs three times as much as uncooked.
- Porridge weighs five times as much as oatmeal.
- If you MUST give snacks, 15gm (half ounce) of hard cheese is good, or half a SMALL size tub of cream cheese or cottage cheese.
- Raw egg white prevents the absorption of vitamin B. Cooked is better, or just the yolks.
The following recipes are for a 15kg dog.
Beef recipes:
220g boiled beef
180g boiled rice
60g boiled root vegetables
2 eggs
Mix all the ingredients together. Mix raw eggs into the hot stock and pour over the mixture.
200g boiled beef
240g boiled pasta
Lettuce (or young nettles or dandelion leaves)
2 tablespns rolled oats or wheat flakes
Cut up the meat, add the pasta and finely shredded leaves and the rolled oats. Pour the stock over the dish, taking care that the meal is still good and thick.
200g raw steak
200g boiled pasta
50g boiled vegetables
Mix all together to a thick consistency with the vegetable stock.
150g boiled beef
150g boiled potato
150g boiled rice
Cook the beef and potato together. Mash potatoes to a thin consistency in the cooking water (not too much). Mix together with the cut-up meat and rice.
Chicken recipes:
200g boiled chicken
100g porridge
90g boiled rice
Cut the meat into small bits, make the porridge, then add the meat and rice.
200g cooked chicken
200g pasta
60g cooked vegetables
half tsp lard
Mix lard into strained, hot pasta. Add vegetables and meat, and moisten with chicken stock.
Offal recipes:
220g heart (pig or ox)
220g cooked pasta
1 tblsp dry dog kibble
Cook heart (and all offal meat) longer than usual. Put the dry food into a bowl and add stock. Mix in the heart (cut into strips) and pasta.
230g tripe
200g pasta
60g vegetables
10g lard
Put cooked pasta in a bowl. Stir in the lard, tripe and vegetasbles. Pour a little stock over the meal and serve.
110g beef
110g liver
200g pasta
60g vegetables
Half tsp lard
2 tsp rolled oats
Cook together all except the oats. Mix all together well, then sprinkle with oats and stock.
250g kidney
200g pasta
Quarter tsp lard to cook kidney
40g vegetables
Boil the pasta and vegetables together (not too much water). Fry cut-up kidney in the lard, then add to boiled mixture and stock.
250g kidney
180g rice
45g cheese fat for frying kidney
Boil the rice, grate the cheese, fry the kidney, then mix all together and serve.
Fish recipe:
230g cooked or fillet fish
180g boiled rice
50g grated carrot
120g soft cottage cheese
Mix all together and serve.
