Many pet owners have the need to prepare their pet's meals by themselves, and feeding your pet a home prepared meal might be an appealing alternative to offering commercial foods, especially for pets with certain conditions who are struggling to consume kibbles or maintain body condition. However, it’s critically important to remember that the nutritional needs of a canine and feline are very different than your own. This means that it's dangerous to simply feed your pet your own meals or cook something for your pet that you consider healthy.
While it may seem easy to create a homemade diet for your pet, cooking homemade pet food is more complicated than simply throwing some protein and vegetables together. The decision to cook homemade food for your pet is one that should not be taken lightly, but made with careful consideration and after discussing your pet’s current health and longevity with your veterinarian and a qualified companion animal nutritionist. Always consult a board certified veterinary nutritionist, or professionally registered qualified companion animal nutritionist to provide you with one or more balanced homemade pet food recipes, as well as recommendations regarding any supplements to feed your pet.
Preparing your own home made food toppers can be a great bonding experience between you and your pet, and if done correctly, provides a healthy homemade food topper that they will love. Some of the benefits of homemade food toppers include that you can choose the quality and source of the food ingredients. Ingredients in the foods can also be offered as minimally processed, and many options can be followed to prepare your pet's food including raw, steamed, baked, broiled, and so on, to suit your cooking preferences or your dog’s individual palate. Our nutritionists will guide you on the best cooking method for your individual pet's circumstances. Most often, home prepared foods contain a variety of fresh ingredients, making meal time more interesting. Home prepared foods also offer you the option of being tailored according to your pet's individuality.
Food Toppers serve as a flavorful enhancement to your pets’ regular meals, and from a nutritional standpoint, toppers let you add fresh and wholesome ingredients to your pet's regular meals as needed.
It is important to remember that food toppers are not supposed to replace any of your dogs regular complete and balanced meals, but complementary to their normal meals, and can be added on top of their meals or mixed into their normal meals.
Home prepared food toppers are perfect for those pet parents who like to add a wet meal on top of the dry kibbles which they normally feed their dogs, to encourage picky dogs to eat their regular meals, to add additional nutrients to your dogs food, and to improve body condition of skinny dogs / dogs that are struggling to gain weight.
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